Taking up a little-known story of education, schooling, and missionary endeavor, Helen May, Baljit Kaur, and Larry Prochner focus on the experiences of very young ’native’ children in three British colonies. In missionary settlements across the northern part of the North Island of New Zealand, Upper Canada, and British-controlled India, experimental British ventures for placing young children of the poor in infant schools were simultaneously transported to and adopted for all three colonie...

The book *"Pehla Khat Aakhri"* by Baljit Singh is a search for that ultimate stage of love, which perhaps remains unattainable for humans. It is a love so profound that a person becomes a song. This book, written in the form of a message-like discourse, beautifully portrays the journey from the self to the other and from the other back to the self.