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Jawaharlal Nehru, fondly remembered as chacha Nehru by the children of india, was the country's first Prime Minister. He played a stellar role in India'sfreedom movement and was the architect of modern India.He was an outstanding speaker, excellent diplomat and a popular Writer.He held Many important political posts and won several awards inclidingthe prestigious Bharat Ratna. This Illustrated biography gives an insight in to the life of a great political Leader.

All D’artagnan ever wanted was to one day become a part ofthe French King, Louis XIII majestic Musketeers. And when he isbefriended by Athos, Porthos and Aramis, three of the King’s mostable Musketeers, D’artagnan finally feels like he is on the right path.But trouble comes calling. Suddenly, France is caught in a politicalconspiracy at the hands of the powerful, Cardinal Richelieu.The Cardinal has come up with an evil plan to humiliate the King’swife, Queen Anne, in an attempt to snatch the throne of Franceand take over the reins of the country. Now, D’artagnan and theThree Musketeers must fight against the Cardinal’s sinister schemes,even as the threat of war looms large over France. The ThreeMusketeers and their young friend have to stop the evil forces andsave France from falling into the wrong hands.Together they fight, and stay victorious, and keep alive. They are --“One for all, and all for one!”

Classic stories and fairy tales go hand in hand with a child’s growing up years. However, in this age of comic books, the classics are gradually finding less and less takers. Keeping this in mind we have selected 24 such all time favourite classics and translated them into graphic format. While remaining faithful to the original plot, these stories contain neat, pithy text and vivid, colourful graphics that make reading a pleasure.Children as well as adolescents will find this series to be a fascinating read, and it can help your child to make the ascension from cartoons to the classics.

Rabindranath Tagore, like Chaucer's forerunners, writes music for his words, and one understands at every momentthat he is so abundant, so spontaneous, so daring in his passion, so full of surprise, because he is doing something which has never seemed strange, unnatural, or in need of defence. He is an exponent of the Bengal Renaissance, was a polymath who not only reformed Bengali literature and music, but also combined Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the 19th and 20th centuries. He also won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for Gitanjali, a profound collection of songs he authored. Also called the "the Bard of Bengal", Tagore's poetry is both spiritual and effervescent. Along with a writer, Tagore was a humanist, and belived in universal internationalism. He was an ardent supporter of India's freedom from the colonial regime. Other seminal works by him include Gora and Ghare-Baire, while he also wrote plays like Visarjan, Chandalika, and The Post Office. Tagore is also responsible for the composition of the national anthems of India and Bangladesh, and is said to have inspired Sri Lanka's national anthem as well. He passed away in 1941.

Oliver Twist is a story of a young orphan, Oliver, and his attemptsto stay good in a depraved society. The book exposes the miseriesof poverty and its degrading effects through society. Oliverembodies innocence and incorruptibility. He was born and raisedin a workhouse, then forced to live with a group of petty criminalsand finally was adopted by a generous old man to live with himhappily. He faces many obstacles and lives through many horrorsthroughout the novel.The cruelty of institutions and bureaucracies towards theunfortunate is perhaps the pre-eminent theme of the book, andessentially what makes it a social novel. Like a true Dickensiannarrative, the dichotomy between Good and Evil are very clearlymarked out. The story with many twists and turns keeps thereader engaged and imparts hope that benevolence can overcomeand depravity.