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This novel is extraordinary in its ability to reflect the daily lives and dialect of the royal merchants of a village very closely. It is the story of two brothers who lose their integrity because of being caught in a web of wealth and women.

This book sequentially provides the knowledge you need to refine children’s talents and enabling them to become the best version of themselves. Today’s children will go on to become tomorrow’s leaders and so, this book has been written while keeping in mind the qualities that the ideal future citizen of this country should possess.

This is a biography of Mahatma Gandhi written on the basis of eyewitness accounts, memoirs and verified facts. This book rose to great popularity upon its publication.

In this story, a rickshaw-puller is constrained to pull a hand-rickshaw from the time of his childhood. He works very hard and laboriously saves every penny he makes so he can fulfill his dream of buying his own rickshaw someday. But as fate would have it, he faces a fresh obstacle every time he tries, though he doesn’t let it disappoint him and labours away into the promised new world of change.

The hero of Purana Naukar is Bailiff Yarne, who worked his youth away at his employer’s house but is suddenly fired. He goes to court to seek justice, which he fails to get. In order to seek revenge, he sets fire to his employer’s house. And that is the beginning of his end.

This book is the translated edition of an English book written on the great Chinese philosopher, Lao Tzu. Translator, Ila Kumar, has said that she never could have imagined she would be able to translate texts on Chinese philosophy but to her delight, she felt deeply fulfilled upon discovering this book.

Through this novel, the author talks about idealistic truth with great caution, laying great emphasis on the importance of cooperation as human beings. The language is accessible and the message of the story hits close to home.

This is the last poetic work by Jaishankar Prasad, and was published in 1936. Starting from ‘Chinta’ and going all the way to ‘Anand’, this epic has 15 parts which bring together and reveal a fascinating outlook on the various human emotions with great skill.

In this book, John Stuart has explained the principles of ‘freedom of the individual’ in an accessible and logical way. He strongly believed that everyone should be allowed the freedom to think and express freely. Mill wrote On Liberty, a work which won him great popularity.