For More Than Four Decades After Gaining Independence, India, With Its Massive Size And Population, Staggering Poverty And Slow Rate Of Growth, Was Associated With The Plodding, Somnolent Elephant, Comfortably Resting On Its Achievements Of Centuries Gone By. Then In The Early 1990S The Elephant Seemed To Wake Up From Its Slumber And Slowly Begin To Change Until Today, In The First Decade Of The Twenty-First Century, Some Have Begun To See It Morphing Into A Tiger. As India Turns Sixty, Shashi Tharoor, Novelist And Essayist, Reminds Us Of The Paradox That Is India, The Elephant That Is Becoming A Tiger: With The Highest Number Of Billionaires In Asia, It Still Has The Largest Number Of People Living Amid Poverty And Neglect, And More Children Who Have Not Seen The Inside Of A Schoolroom Than Any Other Country. So What Does The Twenty-First Century Hold For India? Will It Bring The Strength Of The Tiger And The Size Of An Elephant To Bear Upon The World? Or Will It Remain An Elephant At Heart? In More Than Sixty Essays Organized Thematically Into Six Parts, Shashi Tharoor Analyses The Forces That Have Made Twenty-First Century India And Could Yet Unmake It. He Discusses The Country S Transformation In His Characteristic Lucid Prose, Writing With Passion And Engagement On A Broad Range Of Subjects, From The Very Notion Of Indianness In A Pluralist Society To The Evolution Of The Once Sleeping Giant Into A World Leader In The Realms Of Science And Technology; From The Men And Women Who Make Up His India Gandhi And Nehru And The Less Obvious Ramanujan And Krishna Menon To An Eclectic Array Of Indian Experiences And Realities, Virtual And Spiritual, Political And Filmi. The Book Is Leavened With Whimsical And Witty Pieces On Cricket, Bollywood And The National Penchant For Holidays, And Topped Off With An A To Z Glossary On Indianness, Written With Tongue Firmly In Cheek. Diverting And Instructive As Ever, Artfully Combining Hard Facts And Statistics With Personal Opinions And Observations, Tharoor Offers A Fresh, Insightful Look At This Timeless And Fast-Changing Society, Emphasizing That India Must Rise Above The Past If It Is To Conquer The Future.

Examines the political history, military events, social impact, and long-term effects of the Vietnam War.

A step-by-step account to really probe behind the events of the Vietnam War.

When Isha is sent away to live with her grandparents on the Indian countryside, she finds a young Bengal tiger that needs her protection. Her crusade to save the tiger becomes the catalyst of an arduous journey of awakening and survival across the changing landscape of modernizing India.

“A stunningly beautiful book as well as an eloquent appeal and a consciousness raiser.” — The Horn Book Tigers, ground iguanas, partula snails, and even white-rumped vultures are in danger of disappearing altogether. Using the experiences of a few endangered species as examples, Martin Jenkins highlights the ways human behavior can either threaten or conserve the amazing animals that share our planet. Vicky White’s stunning portraits of rare creatures offer a glimpse of nature’s grace and beauty — and give us a powerful reason to preserve it.

Are you bored with being so proper? Do you want to have more fun? Mr. Tiger knows exactly how you feel. So he decides to go wild. But does he go too far? From Caldecott Honor artist Peter Brown comes a story that shows there's a time and place for everything...even going wild.

There was a big fat Elephant. He used to stand on four feet and doze every day after lunch. One afternoon, he was relaxing; his long trunk was hanging and swinging like a pendulum.A Tiger cub was passing by. He saw the swinging trunk and was tempted to bite at it. So he jumped, caught hold of the elephant's trunk and started swinging 'huii huii'. Elephant woke up immediately and was very angry. He lifted the tiger with his trunk, held the Tiger high in the air, swung and chucked the tiger in a near-by pool with a mighty force.Spashhhhhh, tiger fell into the pool, where a hungry crocodile was waiting with her jaws opened. As Tiger fell between her jaws, Crocodile chomped hard on it. The tiger got cut split into two halves. Two legs and the rear were in Crocodile's mouth, while Tiger's front kept swimming in the water, unaware of the rear half. With his blood, the pond water turned red.Elephant started walking after throwing the tiger away. Soon he came near the pool, to his dismay he found the tiger cut in two halves.Elephant was now very sorry & wanted to help the tiger. He ordered the crocodile, “open your mouth, Croc”. He dragged the rear half of the Tiger from her mouth.Elephant put Tiger's rear half on his back. Then he put Tiger's swimming front half on his back as well. On Elephant's back entire Tiger now rests, though cut into two separate pieces. Elephant wonders - how to put these pieces together.Elephant now set out in a search, to find someone who could put together two halves of the little dear tiger.He went to the weaver bird Babui & asked “Hi babui, can you please put these two together?” “No, I can't” – Babui said, “I use the straw as the thread to make the nest, but I can't sew the tiger. We need a sewing machine, to stitch Tiger's pieces together'.The tiger & Babui scratched their heads, what to do.....what to do?“Let's go to Nayan's place”, they decided. Babui sat on Elephant's head; flies a bit and shows the way to Nayan's place'. Elephant walks, with Tiger's halves, resting on the back, to Nayan's house.Elephant knocks at the door with his trunk. Nayan opened the door and 'wow' - he was surprised to find the guests; she had to break the door to let Elephant in.Elephant told Nayan what happened & begged and begged. At last Nayan agreed to help them. Nayan put a white cloth on the table & on that two Tiger halves were laid down.Nayan's mum Putum came, with the sewing machine. Tiger halves were put together, nicely joined by a Nayan's mum. “Would the stitched Tiger now be okay” asked the Elephant. Clever Nayan put milk bottle in the Tiger's mouth to see if there is any leak through the joint, just stitched. All OK, the tiger cub sucked on the milk bottle happily & fell asleep. Nayan had slept as Tiger had. Elephant fanned them with his trunk. Nayan had drunk milk from the bottle too. Nayan fell in deep sleep and so did Nayan's mum & dad.