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  2. Waiting for the Mahatma - Wikipedia

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    Sriram's underground activity takes place in the countryside, an area alien to him, and the misunderstandings with the locals provide the book's best comic moments. After spending some time in jail, Sriram is reunited with Bharati, and the story ends with their engagement amidst the tragedy of India's partition in 1947 and Gandhi's death in 1948.

  3. The Crack in Space - Wikipedia

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    The common elements are the Jiffi-scuttler transport device, the company, Terran Development, that manufactures it (and still exists to play a large role in the later works), and a summary of Prominent Author as an event of the past in chapter 2. The "crack in space" is a defect in Jiffi-scuttler operation that allows access to the Earth (in ...

  4. Krittivasi Ramayan - Wikipedia

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    Kṛttivāsī Rāmāyaṇ, [a]; also called Śrīrām Pãcālī, [b] composed by the fourteenth-century Bengali poet Krittibas Ojha, [1] [2] from whom it takes its name, is a rendition of the Rāmāyaṇa into Bengali.

  5. The Rolling Stones (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The Rolling Stones (also published under the name Space Family Stone in the United Kingdom) is a 1952 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. A condensed version of the novel had been published earlier in Boys' Life (September, October, November, December 1952) under the title "Tramp Space Ship".

  6. Krittibas Ojha - Wikipedia

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    Krittibas Ojha was born in a Kanyakubja Brahmin family at Phulia village of modern-day Nadia district in the Indian state of Paschimbanga (West Bengal). [3] [4] He was the eldest among his father Banamali Ojha's six sons and one daughter.

  7. Skylark (series) - Wikipedia

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    Skylark is a science fiction/space opera series by American writer E. E. Smith.In the first book, The Skylark of Space (first published in Amazing Stories in 1928), a scientist discovers/accidentally invents a space-drive, builds a starship, and flies off with three companions to encounter alien civilizations and fight a larger-than-life villain.

  8. Nilakanta Sri Ram - Wikipedia

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    In his early years, Sri Ram worked under Annie Besant in various capacities. Sri Ram was a teacher at the Besant Theosophical College in Madanapalle, the National School in Bangalore and the National University of India in Chennai.

  9. Tantrasamgraha - Wikipedia

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    Chapter 7 (Drikkarma-prakaranam (On visibility computation)): Discusses the rising and setting of the moon and planets. (15 slokas) Chapter 8 (Sringonnati-prakaranam (On elevation of the lunar cusps)): Examines the size of the part of the moon which is illuminated by the sun and gives a graphical representation of it. (40 slokas)