Author: Sheila Dhar
Publisher: Publications Division
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 191
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8123005644
Description
The Present volume is a reprint rather than a revised edition. At the same time, there are minor factual changes relating to population and development which will be helpful to the child who is reading the book today, more than twenty years after it first appeared.
This book was published to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Indian Republic. Communication with the young readers is achieved through visual materials familiar to the Indian eye. The main thrust of the content is Indian culture and the Indian way of life. Traditional motifs from classical, tribal, folk and modern art are used to explain these to the child. As such the original design and format of the pages is an integral part of the author’s intention.
Contents
A Matter of Belonging
Sharing the Homeland
What is Indian-Ness?
The Best Time to be Young
A Hundred Years Ago
How we Won Freedom
A House of our own
The way Finder
Our Kind of Plan
Where the People are King
The Importance of Wanting Things
The Head of the Family
Time-Table for Five Years
Living on the Lnd
Agriculture Means A Hundre Things
The Battle Plan
"To Wipe every tear from every eye"
Then and Now
The Village that Stood First
Is Anything Changing?
Becoming a New Person
What is wrong with us
The Meaning of a Problem
Painting Magic
Colouring the World
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