Book Review: Living Homeschool: History(India): Discovery of India – Jawaharlal Nehru

Click to watch Review Buy Book Recommended Age: High school, Young Adult, Adult A must read book for anyone who wants to truly understand India and the thought process that went into making it. The quintessential book for all Indians. The book was written during one of Nehru ji prison tenure for freedom struggle. He talks about India’s glorious past

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Homeschool: Maths – Book review:Alex in Numberland by Alex Bellos

Click Here to watch Review Click Here to Buy Book Recommended: Middle School, High School, Young Adult, Adult A fantastic read that combines history and correlation between day to day life to make it a living math book.The author does a fantastic narration about the history of geometry and keeping the reader engaged with other anecdotes. Some interesting information that I gleaned

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Living Homeschool History(India):Book Review: A Brush with Indian ART by Mamta Nainy

Recommended age: 8 years and up An interesting book to understand Indian art and the history behind the art.A great book for both adults and children.Contains maps and information on museums where one can find the art of particular era and dynasty. Begins with the cave paintings in Madhya Pradesh to the European style paintings during British era.It contains beautiful

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Homeschool History(India):Book review:A Children’s History of India by Subhadra Sen Gupta

Recommended age: 8 years and up Beautiful book to explain Indian history to a young child.It contains maps, drawings , fascinating information and links to additional information on each topic. Subhadra Sen Gupta does a wonderful job of captivating a young child’s imagination ,narrating history in a manner that would be understandable for a young children.I thoroughly enjoyed the concise

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Living Books: Homeschool Science: Emperor of All Maladies by Siddharth Mukerjee

Recommended:High School Yet another favorite reads for the year.All of us know or have some one battling/battled cancer which has become a common household name and hence this one extremely important book to understanding Cancer. A good book to understand the progression of the medical science.From the first cancer patient to the various methods of treatments used in different years

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Living Homeschool History(India):Book Review: India after Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha

Recommended Age:Upper Middle school,High School,Graduates Click Here to watch the Video Click Here to buy the Book Highly recommend this book for anyone interested in Indian politics and Indian democracy.This part of history is relatively less lengthier to read than others as it is less than 80 years.Time period is from 1947 to 2015.It enables us to understand the why’s

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LIVING HOMESCHOOL HISTORY:Book Review:Freedom at Midnight – Dominique Lapierre & Larry Collins

Recommended for: High schoolers This book talks from the view point of Last Viceroy Mountbatten.   We get to have a glimpse of how 1946-1948 looked like and to better understand personalities of 3 prominent men – Gandhi ji,Nehru ji and Viceroy Mountbatten.  We get a understand: The Circumstances by which the British were ready to let go of their very

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