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Tales of Magic
Tales of Magic
This book is a collection of magical tales composed for readers of all age groups. Children find it very interesting to listen to magical tales from their parents or grandparents. There are many fascinating and interesting characters in these kind of stories.
The supernatural element in the stories will arouse the feeling of thrill in young readers. They would unravel the mysteries when they unfold the pages of this charming book. This book has been written in very simple and lucid language so that people of all age groups can easily understand the stories. There are many beautiful illustrations which are enhancing the looks of the book.
This book, which is the collection of some magical stories, has been presented to provide healthy entertainment to children. The supernatural elements in the stories will arouse the feeling of thrill in young readers. Children would love to wander in the imaginary, mysterious world of these stories.
The stories in this are not just fables or fairy tales that makes the readers wander in some imaginary world, but conveys certain messages through it. Most of them focuses on helping mentality, compassion towards the people around. So when children read these sort of books they become aware of the people around.
Five point some one - Chetan Bhagat
This novel narrates the story of three IIT graduates and their life at India's Premier Technology Institute. The story is all about their friendship and differences, study and enjoyment, career and ambition, parental pressure and peer pressure, love and sex. And as the subtitle of the novel – What not to do at IIT – suggests, "This is not a book to teach you how to get into IIT or even how to live in college. In fact, it describes how screwed up things can get if you don't think straight." The author Chetan Bhagat himself is an IIT and /IIM graduate. He worked in Hong Kong and then relocated to India and working in an investment bank apart from writing books and screen plays. He is author of three novels Five Point Someone (2004), One Night @ the call center (2005) and recently The 3 Mistakes of my Life (2008). The New York Times quoted him as the “biggest selling English author in India’s history”. Title of the novel “Five point some one” is taken form GPA system used in IIT. In the ranking system in III five points are considered average rank. Hari, Alok and Ryan are three main characters. They are roommates and studding in the same department at IIT. These three strange students became close friends after a ranging session by seniors and they stand up for each other’s during the four years at IIT on every occasion, despite their personal conflicts several issues. They are far from the image of an IIT graduate is generally perceived to be and more like an average middle class youth. In the novel Hari narrates the story. He is an average in study, seems confused but he keeps all three fiends together, always taking the easy way out, fall in love and had sex with the daughter of his head of the department. Ryan is son of rich parents, a born rebellion. He hates his parents, as he feels neglected by them. He wants to be innovator and he thinks that the IIT system puts hurdle in one’s innovation. Alok belongs to a typical lower Indian middle class family, burdened with lots of expectations and responsibility. He wants to get good GPA so that he can get a good job and support his family. This makes him some times selfish. They found themselves stuck in IIT system. They get bored with study, assignments and projects and wanted to enjoy the life and have fun to its fullest. This leads to their lower GPA in class quiz and exams. They managed to secure hardly 5 points GPA at a scale of 10, ranking near the end of their class. And this means the end of their bright career. The story describes the ups and downs of their life in campus. Their reaction on scoring lowest GPA in the class, how they are perceived by students and professors on the basis of their GPA, their affection, their conflicts, their drinking habit and their strategy to beat the system. Meanwhile Hari fell into an affair with Neha, daughter of his head of department, Professor Cherian. When these three friends were in a great trouble, they found another professor Veera. He keeps confidence on his student and inspires them to think and act differently. He become the mentor of the three friends and supports them when they needed most. When the three friends realized that their future is at the stake they make a plan to steal the paper from his professor’s office. What happened to their plan? What happened to their career and dream? Would Hari able to get married with Neha? Would Ryan succeed in his innovation? Would Alok lived up to the
expectations of his family? If you have never read any English novel, I strongly recommend you to start with this one. The novel is of only 270 pages and written in very simple English. The book is written in conversational style, which gives a feeling that events are happening in front of you. Characters and story seems very real, except some points like appearing in viva after taking a glass of vodka, but its ok since it is a work of fiction. At the end author Chetan Bhagat wonderfully conveys the message of the novel in the form of convocation speech.
By
Muhammed Hilal
expectations of his family? If you have never read any English novel, I strongly recommend you to start with this one. The novel is of only 270 pages and written in very simple English. The book is written in conversational style, which gives a feeling that events are happening in front of you. Characters and story seems very real, except some points like appearing in viva after taking a glass of vodka, but its ok since it is a work of fiction. At the end author Chetan Bhagat wonderfully conveys the message of the novel in the form of convocation speech.
By
Muhammed Hilal
Alchemist- Paulo Coelho
ALCHEMIST
The Alchemist is an exciting novel by Coelho Paulo .It is the kind of novel that tells you that everything is possible as long as you really want it to happen. The novel is all about a shepherd boy Santiago he in turns searching for a treasure . The information about treasure is revealed to him by a dram. And he is following his dream to find the treasure. The novel appeals to everybody, because we can all identify our selves with Santiago: all of us have dreams, and are dying for somebody to tell us that they may come.
The book is a simple story of a simple shepherd boy who has a dream and the courage to follow it. The novel skillfully combines words of wisdom, philosophy, and simplicity of meaning and language, which makes it particularly readable and accounts for its bestselling status. The Alchemist follows the journey of a shepherd boy named Santiago. Santiago, believe that the dream to be decides to travel to a i nearby town to discover its meaning. A gypsy woman tells him that there is a treasure in the pyramids of Egypt.
Early into his journey, he meets an old king, who tells him to sell his sheep to travel to Egypt and introduces the idea of a Personal Legend.Your Personal Legend is what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is. He adds that when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. This is the core theme of the book.
Along the way, Santiago meets an Englishman and continues his travel with him. They travel through the Sahara desert and during his journey, Santiago meets and falls in love with a beautiful Arabian woman named Fatima. He asks Fatima to marry him, but she says she will only marry him after he finds his treasures. He is perplexed by this, but later learns that true love will not stop one's Personal Legend, and if it does, it is not true love.
Santiago then encounters a lone alchemist who also teaches him about Personal Legends. He says that people want to find only the treasure of their Personal Legends but not the Personal Legend itself. Santiago feels unsure about himself as he listens to the alchemist's teachings. The alchemist states: Those who don't understand their Personal Legends will fail to comprehend its teachings. It is also stated that treasure is more worthy than gold.
The author believes that each one of us has a dream given to us by God and He gives us clues times again and again so that we recognize those clues and follow these dreams with great zeal. Each one of us has a destiny. To discover these destinies and then follow them is the purpose of our lives. Difficult will be the challenges of the unknown, but what is easy is not eternal, it's finite and the unknown is infinite.
The book is a simple story of a simple shepherd boy who has a dream and the courage to follow it. The novel skillfully combines words of wisdom, philosophy, and simplicity of meaning and language, which makes it particularly readable and accounts for its bestselling status. Perhaps this is the secret of Coelho's success: that he tells people what they want to hear, or rather that he tells them that what they wish for but never thought possible.The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho is a book for those who have lost the dream or never had it. It's a book targeted to our world of lost wisdom; for a world in which temporary joy prevails pure joy. It is for the youth which has forgotten to question itself; for the middle-age men who in their busy day have forgotten their real identity and their dreams. It is a book for the people who are not in harmony with the self in them, because they don't follow the person they want to be but the person others want them to be. The book reveals us that always believe in the person you are. Always be the person you want to be and not the person that others want you to be and remember worth what you have because the treasure lies in you.
By
Sandhya VS
wings of fire
Wings of fire
Wings of fire is an autobiography of Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, formal President of India.
It was written by Dr.A P J Abdul Kalam and Arun Tiwari. This book
narrates life of Dr Kalam. Arun Tiwari worked under Dr APJ Abdul Kalam
for projects on Akash Missiles. He was so fascinated by Dr Kalam' s
range of ideas and thought process that he decided to write Kalams
autobiography. Kalam was born on 15 october 1931 and
studied at St. Joseph's College, Tiruchirappalli and aerospace
engineering at the Madras Institute of Technology (MIT), Chennai. Wings
of Fire is the story of a small boy achieving his dreams. In the
beginning part of it, he explained about his childhood. Kalam was born at Rameswaram in Dhanushkodi, Tamil Nadu, to a middle class family.
In this autobiography he tells about his family and life style, his relatives and friends were helped him to achieving his goals. He tells about some personalities who influences his life. In every stage of his life some of the persons influences him. After completing school, Kalam distributed newspapers to financially contribute to his father's income.
In 1958 he completed his degree in aeronautical engineering from the
Madras Institute of Technology(MIT), after that he joined Defence
Research and Development Organization (DRDO).
Later he moved to ISRO and helped establish the Vikram Sarabhai Space
Centre and pioneered the first space launch-vehicle program. where his team successfully launched several satellites.
Joining ISRO was one of Kalam's biggest achievements in life and he is
said to have found himself when he started to work on the SLV project.
Kalam first started work on an expandable rocket project independently
at DRDO in 1965. In 1969, Kalam received the government's approval and
expanded the program to include more engineers. In 1982, Kalam returned to the DRDO as Director.
The
book covers a lot of information and technical details about India's
satellite and missile programs. Kalam is a poet and is a huge fan of
poems. The book contains many of his own poems and his favorite poems.
By,
AKHIL KUMAR T M
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