A book to treasure and savour, for true endurance stories are a rare find.
Author: Vinay Arora
An attempted ode to Christy’s memoir. A must read for wildlife enthusiasts.
The Chowpatty Cooking Club is set in Bombay, 1942, when Mahatma Gandhi’s Quit India Movement was gathering momentum. Three children, Sakina, Zenobia and Mehul, find their carefree playful lives ‘disrupted’ by student protests, secret magazines, and even an underground radio station.
Against this backdrop, veteran BBC journalist Divya Arya, seeded a creative rendering of the story of Kashmir, for the younger generation. The idea was old school but perfect: pen pals exchanging notes. One is in Delhi, and the other in Kashmir.
Torn Apart by UK based Swapna Haddow is a simple, heart-rending story of what happened in 1947. Experiencing the fresh scars of partition, our protagonists, a rich Muslim boy Ibrahim and Amar, a poor Hindu street kid, are united by fate and circumstances.
Decked up with beautiful rich Manipuri art, these stories of myths and legends are unique and quirky. For children, it transports them to far away lands, with myriad Gods and twists and turns from mountains to oceans. For the adults, it is pure joy, to rediscover the reason why a cat always buries its poop, and mother hen looks after sister duck’s eggs.
