Folktales arise from man's need to communicate and share his daily experiences. The stories gathered in this book also arose from the need to communicate to the younger audience and to familiarize them of the cultural affinity between India and the other nations of Asia. As the reader enjoys the tales, he learns also about the oneness of the world.

Urmila Varma has authored a number of popular books for children.

An attempt has been made in this book to trace the development of classical dance of Bihar from the Mauryan and Gupta periods, known for patronage of fine arts, learning, administration and polity right up to the present age. It provides a detailed study on the dance scenario, gestures, postures and costumes utilized by the dancers of the area. For the first time, it also documents the list of patrons and prominent artistes in the last 150 years.

The author Shovana Narayan, a Kathak dance virtuoso, has added new dimensions to Kathak through innovative use of contemporary themes, poetry and philosophical works.

This book is perhaps the first ever connected account and documentation on Bengali theatre as seen through the kaleidoscope of the past two hundred years. Beginning with Lebedeff's path-breaking production of 'Song Badal', Bengali theatre has not looked back since. Stalwarts like Sisir Kumar Bhaduri, Girish Chandra Ghosh, Shombhu Mitra, Utpal Dutt and others have literally strided the stage by their remarkable performance.

An attempt has been made in this book to recapture some of the colour, flavour and texture of the past 200 years of Bengali theatre by some renowned personalities associated with Bengali and Indian theatre.

Science is a passion for facts and a constant and systematic search for truth. It flourishes in an atmosphere of freedom. Such an atmosphere used to exist in ancient India where the passion for truth seeking could find expression and sustenance. The people of ancient India made immense contributions in the fields of philosophy, religion, pure sciences and technology. This is the reason why India is considered as one of the hot beds of human civilization which has made enormous contribution to enrich the intellectual heritage of mankind. At the end of the first millennium India was at the pinnacle of its glory, when the so called "New World" was not yet discovered and the birth country of Industrial Revolution was not yet well known to the world.

This encyclopedia is the outcome of the sustained work put in for several years by the well known author Shri M.S. Sreedharan in collecting, collating and writing up the information and prevailing ancient sciences in the form of a thesaurus. This work is a glowing tribute to the erudite scholarship of the author, who is not amidst us any more. This book will be a great guide and source of inspiration for the readers, specially the youth of India.

The book is a compilation of articles written on various aspects of 1857. These include some well-documented articles on the struggle during 1857, the role of Urdu and Persian journalism in inciting patriotic fervour, the exemplary courageous role of ulemas (religious heads) during the 1857 revolution and the way the uprising had affected the whole country.

These articles have been selected from the issues of Ajkal (Urdu).

The title 'Athara Sau Sattawan ki Jang-e-Azadi ' contains the brief history of First Freedom Struggle of India against British Rule. Eminent historian and author Mr. Surenderanath Sen has presented the Indian viewpoint in its eleven chapters with the psycho-analysis of Indian people along with the background of struggle( 1857).

The present book is on incidents drawn from the lives of people who have had the halo of greatness.

The incidents in the book which can be savoured by both the young and the old alike are written in a manner which would create a yearning in the readers to break the shackles of mundane living and instil in them the desire to do something which might bring inner happiness and inner joy in them.

The author of this book is a prolific writer known for his newspaper middles and his writing for children.