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Zero is very special. There is no other number quite like it in the universe. So says Sir Tzyphyr.
Sir Tzyphyr is no ordinary magician. He is the greatest Wizard of the Universe for he knows mathemagic, the spell of numbers. This gives him powers greater than ordinary magic ever could.
Join him as he takes the twins Megha and Mehul on a second exciting journey into the magical world of numbers. This time they find out all they can about that most special and ...
Even though he was one of the most influential men who ever walked the earth, very little is known about the life of Siddhartha Gautama, the man we call the Buddha. His teachings were followed for 1,500 years in India, and became the guiding principles of life for both rich and poor, high born and lower caste. Today, the religion he founded is followed all over the world.
Here is the fascinating story of his life-from his youth as a privileged prince to his ...
One of the giants of Hindi literature, Jainendra introduced the psychological in Hindi fiction. Questions of love, marriage and relationships occupy much of Jainendra’s works, taking them into the realm of the internal and the intimate. In The Resignation, Jainendra tells the story of Mrinal, a young woman whose uncompromising idealism results in her family and society rejecting her completely. Almost seventy-five years after it was written, the story of ...
Myths, they say, are the dreams of mankind, at once utterly strange and hauntingly familiar. They tell of beginnings and ends, creation and destruction, life and death… The twenty myths in this book come from many different cultures all over the world-from the great classic tales of Greece and Rome, and from Norse, Celtic, Egyptian, Native American, African, Indian and Asian traditions. At the heart of each is the story of a child hero. Some of the stories are ...
When Dev, Diti and Avi are sent to live with their father's friend in Ratnapur, a remote village by a forest, they find themselves in a whole new world. They make new friends, sight their first tiger and explore the mysteries of the wild. Then one day tigress is shot dead and the children are caught in a web of intrigue as they join the hunt for her killer. Full of fascinating details about life in the jungle, this racy story will leave you growling for more.