सुरभिः (Surbhi) is the Sanskrit book for DAV Class 7. Its 10 lessons are mostly stories, plus a dialogue about healthy food: the lion and the clever jackal (बुद्धिः एव अस्माकं बलम्), crows who use a prince’s necklace to get rid of a snake, and the talkative tortoise carried by two swans (अविवेकः परमापदां पदम्). … Read more
The DAV Class 8 computer book has nine chapters in about 170 pages, and it is mostly about the web and programming. It opens with computer networks: routers, switches and modems, ALOHAnet in Hawaii in 1971, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and 4G. Three chapters then build web pages in HTML, from headings and paragraphs to lists, tables, … Read more
अभ्यास सागर (Abhyas Sagar) is the Hindi grammar and writing workbook for DAV Class 8. Its 20 chapters have the same titles as the lessons of the Gyan Sagar reader, from हम पंछी उन्मुक्त गगन के to ईर्ष्या: तू न गई मेरे मन से. Each chapter teaches grammar through that lesson. Over the year the … Read more
भाषा मधुरी (Bhasha Madhuri) is the Hindi reader for DAV Class 3. It has 16 lessons: stories, poems, riddles, a play and a letter. It starts with भोलू भुलक्कड़, about a boy who forgets everything, and the poem चतुर कौवा, the thirsty crow who drops pebbles into a pitcher. Later lessons include a Birbal tale … Read more
The DAV Class 7 English Literature book has 11 pieces over 84 pages: six stories, four poems and a play. It opens with Ruskin Bond’s Monkey Trouble, about Tutu the pet monkey, and R.K. Narayan’s A Hero, where Swami is made to sleep alone in his father’s office and ends up catching a burglar. The … Read more