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] The book it appeared in was published by NCERT under the guidance of the Ministry of Human Resources in 2006 under the UPA government headed by Sonia Gandhi (Indian National Congress). Later the HRD Minister Kapil Sibal apologised to the nation with regards to the cartoon. [6] NCERT was also asked to remove the cartoon from their textbooks. [8]
Those who wish to adopt the textbooks are required to send a request to NCERT, upon which soft copies of the books are received. The material is press-ready and may be printed by paying a 5% royalty, and by acknowledging NCERT. [11] The textbooks are in color-print and are among the least expensive books in Indian book stores. [11]
"A Roadside Stand" "Departmental" "The Old Barn at the Bottom of the Fogs" "On the Heart's Beginning to Cloud the Mind" "The Figure in the Doorway" "At Woodward's Gardens" "A Record Stride" "Taken Singly" "Lost in Heaven" "Desert Places" "Leaves Compared with Flowers" "A Leaf Treader" "On Taking from the Top to Broaden the Base"
A number of other books, Ram Sharan Sharma's Ancient India, Satish Chandra's Medieval India, Bipan Chandra's Modern India and Arjun Dev's India and the World were published in 1970's. [7] [6] [8] These texts were intended to be "model" textbooks which were "modern and secular," free of communal bias and prejudice.
Many of the oldest roadside attractions still can be visited today. When travel by car became more affordable for many Americans in the 1920s and 30s, road trips were invented!
Little Free Library in a Tokyo Metro station. The first Little Free Library was built in 2009 by the late Todd Bol in Hudson, Wisconsin. [9] Bol mounted a wooden container, designed to look like a one-room schoolhouse, on a post on his lawn and filled it with books as a tribute to his late mother, a book lover and school teacher who had recently died. [10]
Roadside 'rest area' 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of Wentworth, New South Wales Rest areas in Australia are a common feature of the road network in rural areas. They are the responsibility of a variety of authorities, such as a state transport or main roads bureau, or a local government's works department.
An Oregon Department of Transportation roadside assistance employee assisting a motorist. Roadside assistance, also known as breakdown coverage, is a service that assists motorists, motorcyclists, or bicyclists whose vehicles have suffered a mechanical failure that either cannot be resolved by the motorist, or has prevented them from reasonably or effectively transporting the vehicle to an ...