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This book explores the workings of Parliament, the duties of its functionaries, and its interactions with other constitutional bodies and the media. It contains comprehensive information on India’s democratic heritage, evolution and working of the Constitution, parliamentary devices, role of political parties, the public perception of Parliament, the legislature-judiciary interface, the role of C&AG, and the procedural and parliamentary developments that have taken place till 2024.

Best friends Arvind and Sudipto are outsiders in the industrial steel town of Rannwara, Maharashtra, and because of it, every day after school, they are bullied mercilessly by Jaggi Ranade, the son of the most powerful mafia boss in the area. Escape is simply not an option for the 12-year-olds. That is until Amar Singh comes to town for a hit. This is a coming-of-age story with an action-packed interrogation of violence, revenge and power in small-town India.

Marcus du Sautoy, Oxford mathematician, playwright and musician, says creativity is inseparable from mathematics. The designs of Le Corbusier, the music of Bach and Debussy, the choreography of Laban, the animation of Pixar — all are shot through with mathematics, from primes and fractals to the weirder worlds of Hamiltonian cycles and hyperbolic geometry. He says that artistic mindset is similarly a necessity for discovering new mathematics.