What Will You Give For This Beauty by Ali Akbar Natiq
The Good Book Corner featured short stories all November2014. With author features, excerpts, reviews and interviews, and writings of greats like Ruskin Bond, Anton Chekov, Ismat Chughtai, Saadat Hasan Manto … Continue reading
City Adrift, A Short Biography of Bombay by Naresh Fernandes
Much is known of Bombay, the city of seven islands and its history; this city of scarce space provides millions with enough space to chase their dreams. Not surprising then, … Continue reading
Sophia – Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by Anita Anand
“Like braille, the history of India can be read in the rocky ruins left by a succession of victors and vanquished”. And when these stories are written down with an … Continue reading
Pashu, Animal Tales from Hindu Mythology by Devdutt Pattanaik
When I asked Devdutt Pattanaik if Indian myths and mythology had been done to death in children’s literature in India, he said,”The assumption here is we ‘know everything’ that the … Continue reading
A Bad Character by Deepti Kapoor
A young girl, abandoned by her father and left in the care of Aunty in East Delhi, meets a man, “ugly with dark skin, with short wiry hair, with a … Continue reading
The Sun That Rose From The Earth by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
” In such meetings and partings, ultimately lives are lost. There is no end to Love and Beauty never relents” …….. From the First Divan of Mir Taqi Mir(1752) With … Continue reading
Amma Tell Me About series by Bhakti Mathur
When Bhakti Mathur, a banker by profession wanted to tell stories from Indian mythology and folklore to her two young boys, she could not find anything that met her standards. … Continue reading
Horrid High by Payal Kapadia
Ferg Gottin is born to parents who don’t have time for him and can’t wait to be rid of their eleven year old son. So when Mrs Gottin finds a … Continue reading
The Amazing Racist by Chhimi Tenduf-La
Edward Trusted, a young Brit comes to Sri Lanka on a two year teaching contract with an International school, and almost immediately meets, and is besotted with Menaka, the beautiful … Continue reading
Interview with Devika Rangachari, author of Queen of Ice
Devika Rangachari has won several awards for her children’s writing. Her book, Growing Up (Children’s Book Trust, 2000) was on the Honour List of the International Board on Books for … Continue reading
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