The Hindu Young World

The Hindu Young World
Author: V V Ramanan
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2003-07-22
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 935118773X

A treasure house of exciting and informative quiz questions. Do you know what a camelopard is? Can you name the postman in the Asterix comics? Can you say offhand which animal is measured in ‘hands’ rather than feet? Would you be able to reel off the name the first recipient of the Param Vir Chakra? Do you know how many runs Don Bradman scored in his last Test innings, how many moons Venus has, and what the opposite of gravity is? If a number of these questions have got you stumped, never fear. The Hindu Young World Quiz Book 1 is chock-full of information like this, and it has been designed specifically to give you and your friends a rollicking good times even as you learn about new things on every page. This first-ever official quiz book from The Hindu Young World draws on V.V. Ramanan’s immensely popular quiz column in Young World, the Saturday childern’s supplement to The Hindu. It is a companion volume to The Hindu Young World Quiz, currently India’s biggest live quiz show for high school students—in 2002 it was held in eleven cities, with 3000 teams from over 1200 schools participating. The 1200 questions that make up this first volume of The Hindu Young World Quiz Book are a heady mix of general knowledge, curious factoids, and trivia. Comprising questions divided into sets of ten, this book is ideal for quizzing with friends, and also for reading on one’s own, for information and sheer pleasure.

Chumki and the Pangolin (Hole Books)

Chumki and the Pangolin (Hole Books)
Author: Lesley D. Biswas
Publisher: Duckbill
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2022-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780143453185

The dangerous virus is making everything go into lockdown. But the village poacher trying to catch the pangolin Chumki has befriended. How will Chumki save the rare animal in these tough times?

Life Over Two Beers and Other Stories

Life Over Two Beers and Other Stories
Author: Sanjeev Sanyal
Publisher: Penguin Books
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2018
Genre: India
ISBN: 9780143443292

An entertaining and surprising ride through an India you thought you knew Sanjeev Sanyal, bestselling author of Land of the Seven Rivers, returns to enthral readers with a collection of unusual stories. Written with Sanjeev's trademark flair, the stories crackle with irreverence and wit. In 'The Troll', a presumptuous blogger faces his undoing when he sets out to expose an Internet phenomenon. In the title story, a young man loses his job in the financial crisis and tries to reset his life over two beers. In 'The Intellectuals', a foreign researcher spends some memorable hours with Kolkata's ageing intellectuals. From the vicious politics of a Mumbai housing society to the snobberies of Delhi's cocktail circuit, the stories in Life over Two Beers get under the skin of a rapidly changing India-and leave you chuckling.

Chumki and the Elephants (hOle books)

Chumki and the Elephants (hOle books)
Author: Lesley D. Biswas
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2020-12-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 938762594X

Dadi forgets everything, including Chumki's name. When elephants escape from a nearby reserve, can it be a blessing in disguise and help Dadi remember?

Unlucky Chumki

Unlucky Chumki
Author: Lesley D. Biswas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2019-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9789387103153

Biological Extinction

Biological Extinction
Author: Partha Dasgupta
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2019-09-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108482287

Questions why species are becoming extinct, and how we can protect the natural world on which we all depend.

Ten Heads for Tanuj

Ten Heads for Tanuj
Author: Priya Narayanan
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2020-04-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9353578884

Nine-year-old Tanuj loves to listen to the story of Ravana and his ten heads. One night, after Amma narrates the story for the 145th time, Tanuj goes to bed chanting, 'East or West, Ravana is the Best'. The next morning, he wakes up to find that he has grown nine new heads! Read this hilarious yet heart-warming story to find out if Tanuj ever got back to being a one-headed boy again!

On the Run with Fotikchand

On the Run with Fotikchand
Author: Satyajit Ray
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2010
Genre:
ISBN: 0143331620

The first incredibly gripping adventure in a heart-stopping new series by Puffin called ‘Classic Adventures’ Follow Fotikchand’s adventures through the colourful and dangerous streets of Kolkata in this action-packed thriller! An eleven-year-old boy, Bablu, gets kidnapped by four goons. As they make their escape in a stolen car, they meet with an accident and two of the goons die on the spot while the boy loses consciousness. The two surviving kidnappers, presuming the boy to be dead, leave him stranded. When Bablu regains consciousness, he realizes he has lost his memory. In his wanderings, he befriends a street juggler, Harun, who gives him shelter and introduces him to a new way of life. Bablu, now called Fotik, spends his days working in a tea shop, while his evenings are spent assisting Harun on his street shows. Gradually they develop a bond that makes them inseparable till one day the kidnappers spot Fotik, and Harun and he are forced to be on the run again. On the Run with Fotikchand is a thrilling story of everlasting friendship. Riveting and racy, it’ll have you turning the pages till the end.