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An exceptional book that blends text and illustrations to introduce pioneering woman photographer Homai Vyarawalla. The story moves briskly from one photo to the next on Homai’s limited roll of film, with illustrations that brilliantly capture the photography process. The biographical note and facsimiles of Homai’s images at the end adds valuable context. This book is a model biography, hopefully setting tone for others to come.
A beautifully produced book, focusing on the Bangla artist Jamini Roy, that explores his growth as an artist and how the art he saw around him shaped his style. The text is written simply and evocatively, and the design of the book, with many cut-throughs, pull-outs and flaps, offers multiple ways of engaging with text and image. The activities at the end of the book are well-designed and encourage ways of understanding his style more practically.
This brilliantly researched collaboration between a graphic artist and archaeologist meticulously presents the story of the Indus Valley Civilization in a comic-book format. Through an unnamed narrator, it presents complex historiographical issues accessibly, not shying away from difficult debates of origin and identity. The imagination of the Indus cities requires fidelity to known objects and structures. The book adheres to this closely.
Unknown Heroes of India’s Freedom Struggle
The term ‘freedom struggle’ conjures images of iconic leaders, yet there were millions of others who contributed to India’s independence, displaying remarkable courage and sacrifice at their own small levels. Journalist P. Sainath documents the lives of these lesser-known figures, many in their twilight years. The graphic format brings their stories alive in this fascinating children’s version.
जसिंता की डायरी में झारखंड और ओडिशा के आदिवासियों के संग बिताए गए उनके अनुभव और उनकी कुछ कविताएँ संकलित हैं। जसिंथा स्वयं एक आदिवासी परिवार से हैं। शायद इसलिए उनके वर्णन में खास यह है कि हमें आदिवासी जीवन का एक ‘इन्साइडर व्यू’ देखने को मिलता है। उनके जीवन के कई पहलुओं का वह बड़े अपनेपन से वर्णन करती हैं। परंतु इसके साथ ही इस खूबसूरत जीवन के निरंतर होते विध्वंस के दर्द का स्वर लगातार सुनाई देता है। इसके बावजूद जसिंथा ने इंसानियत पर अपने गहरे भरोसे को बचाकर रखा है क्योंकि वह मानती हैं कि इस दुनिया को सिर्फ़ प्रेम ही बचा कर रख सकता है।
इस क़िताब में आपको चित्रों में कवितायेँ और कविताओं में चित्र मिलेंगे। यह तो हम जानते हैं कि पेड़ कितने ज़रूरी हैं पर शायद पेड़ों को रंगरेज़ की तरह न देखा हो। यह किताब प्रकृति का ‘शेड कार्ड’ है। बसंत में कचनार, जकरन्दा और सिल्क फ्लॉस से रंगी जमीन की याद दिलाती है। हर रंग से पहले सुशील शुक्ल की कविताएँ प्रकृति को और करीब ले आती हैं। सड़क और घर के दीवारों पर फैले बोगनविलिया से रिश्ता ही बदल जाता है। फूलों और फलों से रंग बनाने की विधि काफ़ी स्पष्ट है और आपको प्रयोग करने के लिए आमंत्रित ज़रूर करेगी।
This research memoir attempts to capture the many facets of elephant lives in the wild. The writer gets to know elephants as individuals, and grows close to them, particularly to Tipu, the largest of them in Rajaji National Park, the area of his study. Written in a vivid, lively style, and illustrated with photographs, his book captures changes in physical and socio-cultural landscape and the escalating conflicts with humans, giving a fascinating insight into a complex co-existence of forests, animals and humans in today’s world.
This unusual book attempts to banish the common perception that philosophy is not for children, though most of us can recognize that children make wonderful philosophers. The book is divided into sections where timeless and core philosophical concerns are transformed into common themes in a child’s life – seeing, thinking, reading, writing, mathematics, art, being good and learning – that they can relate to easily. The quirky illustrations animate and support the lucid text that makes philosophy contemporary, fun, relatable yet absorbing.
