An Inky Parade


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Pradeep Sebastian has been an avid bibliophile and book collector for over a decade. In this collection of essays, he paints in full splendour the picture of a life devoted to the romance of books, blending personal experience, revelatory conversations and bewitching legends from the world of books. Meet the biryani chef guarding a prized Ottoman manuscript, track the mysterious 'Book Prince' of Kolkata, and visit the cottage in Kodaikanal that lures book collectors with its siren song. Discover how an emperor's defeat brought illuminated manuscripts into sixteenth-century India, how a rare 1865 edition of Alice in Wonderland surfaced in an Indian bazaar, and much more. An Inky Parade is a window into the charming world of antiquarian book trade in India and around the world, as well as an ode to the book as an object of art, sure to delight every reader.




The Encyclopaedic Dictionary


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Semester-Plus-C03-Sem 2


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SemesterPlus is an engaging and interactive series of 10 books covering English, Maths, Science/EVS, Social Studies and General Knowledge. The entire syllabi is judiciously and evenly distributed into semesters in each grade. The series combines theoretical learning with a practical, participative and hands-on approach.




Reflections Termbook Class 03 Term 01


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Reflections Termbook Class 03 Term 01




A Haunting Obsession


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A storybook romance. Cassandra and Tony first met at their parents’ summer retreat in Neverland. A postcard setting in a valley surrounded by majestic mountains. A town you would encounter in a dreamlike fantasy. As the summer seclusions continued, they fell in love with plans to marry. But the last summer retreat, Cassandra never arrived. Months later Tony received a letter from Cassandra. Something was wrong.Tony was hopeless; where to start the search for Cassandra. Another letter from Matt. Tony was filled with rage, insanity sending him over the edge. Amnesia.The psychiatrist doesn’t know what triggered it.Tony knew. It was the event. It changed everything. Tony cannot remember anything before the event. He knows it by name only, that exudes a haunting presence too horrific to remember. A wall of hidden memories appears in Tony’s dreams where he encounters Cassandra. Tony, paralyzed with fear and guilt. From behind the wall: pleading voices, the wailings of lost spirits, outcries of shocking disbelief. Tony’s frequent dreams transporting him to another time and place, Neverland. A place in disrepair, it’s life energy depleted by an evil presence.The dreams luring him closer to Neverland. When the wall collapses, Tony is drawn to hell’s lair; a place in Neverland where the event occurred, revealing the truth about him and Cassandra.










Ink


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The product of a hardscrabble childhood, J. Mayo “Ink” Williams parlayed an Ivy League education into unlikely twin careers as a foundational producer of Black music and pioneering Black player in the early NFL. Clifford R. Murphy tells the story of an ambitious, upwardly mobile life affected, but never daunted, by white society’s racism or the Black community’s class tensions. Williams caroused with Paul Robeson, recorded the likes of Ma Rainey and Blind Lemon Jefferson, and lined up against Chicago Bears player-coach George Halas. Though resented by the artists he exploited, Williams combined a rock-solid instinct for what would sell with an ear for music that put him at the forefront of finding, recording, and blending blues and jazz. Murphy charts Williams’s wide-ranging accomplishments while providing portraits of the cutthroat recording industry and the possibilities, however constrained, of Black life in the 1920s and 1930s. Vivid and engaging, Ink brings to light the extraordinary journey of a Black businessman and athlete.