Andamans Boy

Andamans Boy PDF Author: Zai Whitaker
Publisher: Tulika Books
ISBN: 9788186895146
Category : Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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"Ten-year-old Arif lives with his Chacha and Chachi in Mumbai--they have been his whole life after his parents died in an accident. But it is obvious they are interested only in the money he will inherit when he turns 18. One day, he hops on to a train going to Chennai, and from there he smuggles himself on a boat going to...the Andamans!" --Page 4 of cover.

Andamans Boy

Andamans Boy PDF Author: Zai Whitaker
Publisher: Tulika Books
ISBN: 9788186895146
Category : Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Book Description
"Ten-year-old Arif lives with his Chacha and Chachi in Mumbai--they have been his whole life after his parents died in an accident. But it is obvious they are interested only in the money he will inherit when he turns 18. One day, he hops on to a train going to Chennai, and from there he smuggles himself on a boat going to...the Andamans!" --Page 4 of cover.

Glorious Boy

Glorious Boy PDF Author: Aimee Liu
Publisher: Red Hen Press
ISBN: 1597098477
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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“An absolutely gorgeous historical novel . . . set against the backdrop of a tribe in the Andamans struggling with British rule . . . Just magnificent.” —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You One of Booklist’s Top Ten Historical Fiction Books of 2020 Glorious Boy is a tale of war and devotion, longing and loss, and the power of love to prevail. Set in India’s remote Andaman Islands before and during WWII, the story revolves around a mysteriously mute four-year-old who vanishes on the eve of the Japanese occupation. Little Ty’s parents, Shep and Claire, will go to any lengths to rescue him, but neither is prepared for the brutal and soul-changing odyssey that awaits them. “A riveting amalgam of history, family epic, anticolonial/antiwar treatise, cultural crossroads, and more . . . a fascinating, irresistible marvel.” —Library Journal (starred review) “The most memorable and original novel I’ve read in ages . . . evokes every side in a multi-cultural conversation with sympathy and rare understanding.” —Pico Iyer, author of Autumn Light Shortlisted for the Staunch Book Prize New York Post’s Best Books of the Week Good Housekeeping’s 20 Best Books of 2020 Parade’s 30 Best Beach Reads of 2020

Termite Fry

Termite Fry PDF Author: Zai Whitaker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9356400369
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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Thenee and Mari live in the low hills of the Eastern Ghats, a land of snakes and the hunting ground of the Irular people. Their parents and relatives make a living by catching snakes and selling the glossy skins of cobras, pythons, vipers and rat snakes. When the government suddenly bans the snake-skin trade, the Irular lose their main source of livelihood. Termite Fry tells the story of this period of great transformation through three generations of a family-Thenee and Mari, their parents Rani and Karadi, and their grandfather, a great shaman among the Irular. When the Wildlife Protection Act comes into force soon after the ban, the Irular once again become sought after because they can get special licences to gather and sell forest and animal produce such as snake venom, from which antivenom is made. While the Irular are schooled in the forest and skilled in its ways, they are no match to the various beady-eyed agents and middlemen who have always cheated them on the sale of skins and medicinal plants. Though the forces that shape her community appear to be beyond her control, Thenee is determined to find ways for her people to thrive amidst change.

Gardy in the City of Lions

Gardy in the City of Lions PDF Author: Suniti Namjoshi
Publisher: Tulika Books
ISBN: 9788181467782
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Is Gardy the lost lion cub prince who, legend says, will return to save the City of Lions? He isn't quite sure but rushes there all the same in response to an urgent email, along with the other adventurers. They find that the city is indeed under threat from its very own haughty, crotchety, bickering guardians, Sir Leon and The Old Woman Under the Sea. The first book in the third set of the series sees the friends in a different part of the world Singapore, the 'city of lions'. And this time their challenge is far from straightforward. How do they make the two venerable guardians see that they themselves are the problem? In another entertaining story, the author opens up our eyes to what seeing clearly is all about.

Aditi And Her Friends In Search Of Shemeek

Aditi And Her Friends In Search Of Shemeek PDF Author: Suniti Namjoshi
Publisher: Tulika Books
ISBN: 9788181464408
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Aditi And Her Friends Help The Budapest Changeling

Aditi And Her Friends Help The Budapest Changeling PDF Author: Suniti Namjoshi
Publisher: Tulika Books
ISBN: 9788181464385
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Siril and the Spaceflower

Siril and the Spaceflower PDF Author: Suniti Namjoshi
Publisher: Tulika Books
ISBN: 9788181467805
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Siril the ant is not his practical, rational self at all. He gazes at the sky all night, mumbles to himself, doesn't answer when spoken to... Beautiful is puzzled and upset. Is he in love? She is even more startled when she discovers that he intends to build a spaceship and fly to one of Jupiter's moons, in response to a sad cry for help! In spite of Beautiful's misgivings, the adventurers do zoom into space with the help of anti-gravity pads, the scientific genius of the Techno Sage, and some very useful mind power from the other sages. But can they really help a moon correct its path? A sci-fi fan herself, Suniti Namjoshi takes the genre way beyond its usual orbit, combining the thrill and beauty of the world beyond with gentle sentiment and unusual insights.

Beautiful and the Cyberspace Runaway

Beautiful and the Cyberspace Runaway PDF Author: Suniti Namjoshi
Publisher: Tulika Books
ISBN: 9788181467812
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Holiday plans for Aditi and the others go off track when a runaway computer programme, the irrepressible Mistress i, decides to take refuge with them. Hot on her heels is the scientist who created her, who threatens to put them in jail for kidnapping. And in the midst of all the commotion, Beautiful the elephant is determined to learn to be everything she thinks she isn't rational, sensible, logical and equable. From their peaceful home in Maharashtra, India, Aditi and her friends are catapulted into a strange encounter with cyberspace. In her astonishingly simple way, Suniti Namjoshi explores the connection between the two worlds cyber and real and throws up some interesting thoughts: Does a computer have a soul? And is 'getting updated' the equivalent of 'growing up'?

Aditi and Her Friends Take on the Vesuvian Giant

Aditi and Her Friends Take on the Vesuvian Giant PDF Author: Suniti Namjoshi
Publisher: Tulika Books
ISBN: 9788181463425
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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The Rumbling Island

The Rumbling Island PDF Author: Zai Whitaker
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184759681
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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The forests of India are not only home to a wide variety of animals and birds, but they also teem with committed conservationists, naturalists and nature lovers. And after having spent many years with wildlife, these men and women have fascinating stories to tell. Cliff Rice is one such animal-explorer. He lived for two years in the mountains of Kerala, befriending the Nilgiri tahr, an endangered species of mountain goat, with fistfuls of salt. Ralph Morris, one of the first British coffee planters in the Biligirirangan Hills, went on a 'tiger beat' and chased a pair of tigers towards his daughter Monica , who was given little pebbles to throw at them if defence became necessary. Sally Walker spent years with tiger cubs in zoos, and proved that kindness is more effective than fierce authority; Rom Whitaker set off on an international hunt for giant crocodiles, which took him from Orissa to Egypt; and Manish Chandi tells a fascinating tale about Meroe, the rumbling Nicobar island, where he studied sea turtles and other wildlife.