“gupta s dutta”

Four women --Dhouli, Shanichari, Josmina, Chinta--all from the most oppressed, marginalized segments of society. Whether it is Dhouli, the young Dusad woman who finds herself an outcast in her own village; Shanichari, the Oraon girl who is forced into working in the brick kilns outside Calcutta; Jos... More

A volume of three street plays from the womens movement, written in the 1980s and widely performed as part of the vibrant cultural activism of the time. Giving Away the Girl and The Monkey Dance are both anti-dowry plays. Why All This Bloodshed? Was written in the wake of landmark Shah Bano case in ... More

Decades of research in plant tissue culture has passed through many challenges, created new dreams and resulted in landmark achievements. This has been possible not only due to the refinements of cultural practices and application of cutting-edge areas of molecular biology but also to the judicious ... More

The Orient Longman Easy Readers introduce the child to the enchanting world of reading, which encourage him/her to read with little or no external help. These well-illustrated books are carefully graded into six levels. The series begins at Level 1 and is meant for beginners in the age group of 5–... More

Simple, fun-filled, witty stories of a bird, a cat and a mongoose. The stories try to portray that in spite of being small in size, with will power and right attitude, one can get the better of a bigger adversary.... More

Stories of Gopal, the jester, are enjoyed much in the same way as those of Birbal and Tenali Ramakrishna. This book recounts some of the humorous anecdotes of Gopal, the chief jester in the court of Maharaja Krishna Chandra of Bengal. Many stories are told of how the Maharaja tries to outwit the Naw... More

Stories of Gopal, the jester, are enjoyed much in the same way as those of Birbal and Tenali Ramakrishna. This book recounts some of the humorous anecdotes of Gopal, the chief jester in the court of Maharaja Krishna Chandra of Bengal. Many stories are told of how the Maharaja tries to outwit the Naw... More