The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, banning children under 14 from hazardous jobs and regulating others, was passed in 1986, followed by the 1987 National Policy, which emphasized rehabilitation and education. Subsequently,
The chapters cover topics that include the study of leaves, seed germination, seed dispersion, floral structures, biodiversity in the living world, food, sensitivity, the animal kingdom, microorganisms, reproduction in plants and animals, animals’ internal organs, animal life cycles, plant nutrition, and the growth and development of both living and non-living entities.
Marketed as a real-life practical manual for teenagers, Beyond the Syllabus proves to be apt even for adults dealing with such questions.
It highlights the silting of rivers and the changing of their courses, which students would otherwise read about without really understanding the phenomena as they happened in the past, or reflecting on them through the prism of today’s disasters.
The initial couple of chapters on the protohistoric period of India, viz. the Harappan Civilization (‘Harappan Culture’, pp. 25-42) and the Rig-Vedic period (‘Society and Ideas in the Age of the Vedas’, pp. 43-48), are important in that they lay bare several myths pertaining to these ages.
From being one among many, Mihr rose to become the favourite wife of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir, who married her in the sixth year of his reign subsequent to the demise of Ali Quli Beg. Sharing an extraordinary, sensitive relationship with his twentieth wife,