Children
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India is home to almost 20 per cent of the world's children. More than 1/3rd of the country's population comprising of about 440 million is below 18 years. It has been assumed that about 40 per cent of these children are in need of care and protection, which indicates the extent of the social problem. In a country like India with its multicultural, multi-ethnic and multi-religious population, the problems of socially marginalized, economically backward and ...
The wide ranging of issues and concerns debated in the chapters in this book by the authors throw light on the challenges confronting persons with disabilities in their daily lives.
Loki the trickster god is free from his chains. Now he's readying Naglfar, the Ship of the Dead, armed with a host of giants and zombies, to sail against the Norse gods and begin the final battle of Ragnarok. It's up to Magnus Chase and his friends to stop Loki's plans, but to do so they will have to sail across the oceans of Midgard, Jotunheim and Niflheim in a desperate race to reach Naglfar before it's ready to sail on Midsummer's Day.
Along the way, they will ...
Fourteen-year-old Zoon Razdan is witty, intelligent and deeply perceptive. She also has a deep connection with magic. She was born into it. The house that she lives in is fantastical-life thrums through its wooden walls-and she can talk to everything in it, from the armchair and the fireplace to the books, pipes and portraits! But Zoon doesn’t know that her beloved house once contained a terrible force of darkness that was accidentally let out by one of its ...
Even in 21st century, sex imbalance, sex discrimination, female foeticide, and sex selective abortions continue unabated despite the efforts made by governments (Union as well as State) from time to time. The book, based on empirical research, is intended to examine differentials in sex composition and to plead for balancing of population sex component with specific reference to the State of Haryana, which always stood for adverse sex ratio, indicating status of ...
Children are the future leaders of our nation. By neglecting this special group of children, who are at the high risk of health and physical abuse, we are making most of them prone, to engage in anti-social activities in adulthood. Also, by denying their basic rights and hampering their process of growth we are restricting the development of our country and humanity. The number of homeless children is constantly increasing. Homeless children are a global issue. ...
India has the largest number of child labourers in the world, and has been the subject of intense media and political campaigns in the North aimed at addressing the abuse of children’s rights. This book explores children’s rights as a site of power and reveals how the rights discourse has been used by international actors, national elites and local NGOs in the child labour debate in India.
While discussing the children’s rights in the ...
This second edition has been revised with additional material about the latest developments in the field of Child-Rights Law and Policy Regime. The data charts on the children have been updated to help the readers of this book to get realistic insights about the conditions in which our children are living. Moreover many laws which were in their embryonic stages at the time of first edition of this book and later were enacted into law, like the law on child sexual ...
Legends have it that Gods flew in aircraft called vimanas and waged war with fantastic weapons. What if these turned out to be true?
College student by day and wannabe fighter pilot by night, Aaditya's immense knowledge of flying and fighter planes is displayed only on flight sims and Internet forums.
A chance encounter propels him into the centre of an ancient conflict between good and evil that has been raging for thousands of years, revealing to him a hidden ...
Not exactly a novel, not quite a picture book, not really a graphic novel, or a flip book or a movie, but a combination of all these things.
Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the station, Hugo's undercover life, and his most precious secret, ...
I'm the fastest animal in the forest! boasts Kanchil the mouse deer. And I challenge any animal to race me! Who will step forward to accept the challenge, and can Kanchil be beaten?
The Great Race is an exciting retelling of an Indonesian folktale, featuring the trickster Kanchil. Illustrated in the Mata Ni Pachedi style of ritual textile painting from Gujarat, this is the first time that this rare form of traditional art has been used to tell a children's story.
Inspiring, informative, insightful… meet some of India’s most celebrated female scientists.
What led them to choose their particular field? Who encouraged them? What were their struggles? What are their sources of inspiration? What are the key questions at the cutting edge of modern research? Why choose a life in science at all?
From astrophysics to zoology, learn what it takes to make a career in science.
Child trafficking has become a global issue. India is one of the worst sufferers. What is this problem? How is it operated, who are the sufferers? What are its legal and institutional issues and law enforcement measures? How to rehabilitate the trafficked children and to combat this curse on the modern civilization is the aim of this book.
Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Trafficking patterns. 3. Child trafficking in India. 4. Trafficking routes and modus ...
Contents: Foreword. 1. Introduction. 2. Child labour in Nepal. 3. Working children of Nepal. 4. Causes of child labour. 5. Conclusions, solutions and recommendations. References.
For four teenagers, the Ramayana is not just a tale. It is their fate! In every life they have ever lived, Vikram, Amanjit, Rasita and Deepika have been persecuted and killed by Ravindra, who aspires to the throne of Ravana the Demon-King. Now Rasita is a captive of Ravindra, and demonic beings thought to be mythical are rallying to him. His triumph seems inevitable. Vikram and Amanjit must rescue her. This time, failure is not an option. This time, if Ravindra ...
A well-known folk poem from 17th century England, 'I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail' is a form of trick verse. The poem at first seems nonsensical, but given a break in the middle of each line begins to make perfect sense.
In this pioneering visual exploration of I Saw a Peacock, Gond tribal artist Ramsingh Urveti and book designer Jonathan Yamakami use art and design in the service of language. Working together, revealing and concealing, they brilliantly mirror ...
From old time in India, there is a rich heritage of stories for children in the form of folk tales, collections like Panchtantra in Sanskrit and there are stories for toddlers too. Then there are stories by the modern writers for the new generation. There is an insight into such treasure and some dimensions of children's fiction in India. This book will be useful to the students, teachers, researchers and even to curious reader.
Contents: Preface. 1. Children's ...
The stakes have never been higher. If Percy Jackson and Annabeth fail in their quest, there'll be hell on Earth. Literally.
Wandering the deadly realm of Tartarus, every step leads them further into danger. And, if by some miracle they do make it to the Doors of Death, there's a legion of bloodthirsty monsters waiting for them.
Meanwhile, Hazel and the crew of the Argo II have a choice: to stop a war or save their friends. Whichever road they take one thing is ...
The book is the much-needed beginning of a conversation, outside of specialized, academic circles, on child sexuality in India
The middle-class view throughout the world is that the pre-adolescent stage is an age of innocence-one that precedes the discovery of sex. Why we insist on believing this in the face of so much evidence to the contrary is a mystery.
The book reminds us of the centrality of sex in our lives, including when we are very young. It is a ...
This is the first book in India that looks at child abuse and neglet and makes clear why it happens and what its effect is on children. It examines five types of abuse, physical, emotional, sexual, neglect and maltreatment and also girl child abuse, giving concrete examples from real life. It’s a pathbreaking book that is a must read for policy makers, young parents, school teachers, pediatricians, childcare specialists and all those with a stake in the ...
Gruffalo author, Julia Donaldson, revisits Edward Lear's favourite rhyme in this wonderful new story set in a nonsensical land full of adventure. When their beautiful golden ring is stolen, the Owl and the Pussy-cat must travel far from the safety of the Bong-tree glade as their search for the thief leads them across the Sea, to the Chankly Bore and beyond … Full of enchanting lyricism this new rhyme, beautifully illustrated by Charlotte Voake, promises to ...
The Fault In Our Stars is inspired by the author’s experiences while working with children suffering from life threatening diseases in a hospital. It is a witty, thrilling and heartbreaking story of a sixteen year old girl, Hazel, who is a cancer patient, and is forced by her parents to attend the Cancer Kid Support Group. Through her friend Isaac, she encounters Augustus Waters, an amputee and ex-basketball player. After the support group ends, Augustus ...
R.K. Narayan’s delightfully funny tales of a harum-scarum schoolboy, Swami, have regaled both young and old for years. Swami’s days are full of creating a ruckus in the classroom, dreams of playing tricks on his grandmother or stoning the school windows, inspired by a swadeshi demonstration. When he puts together a cricket team for the MCC (Malgudi Cricket Club) and challenges the Young Men’s Union to a match, things go horribly, horribly wrong, ...