A delightful book for Christmas

We’ve been working our way through the three Jarul Book Awards books and MY GRANDMOTHER CAN’T COOK by Indu Balachandran, illustrated by...

When I think of FOOD, I think of ‘stretching the table’... always a place and a bowl for one more. When I think about stretching the...

Food and stories feed my soul. When they are brought together in a book, I firmly nestles in my soft corner. As I read the book ‘Paati’s...

"Writing to someone, taking the time to craft each letter, to buy a stamp, to select an envelope, to travel to the post office—none of...

9 July, 2019 Years ago, on one of my trips to Calcutta, a Bhutanese friend took me to a street not very far from my hotel. On this...

There aren’t many picture books in which we notice Father’s, Dad’s, Daddy’s, Appa’s, Abba’s, Papa’s, Dada’s, Pitaji’s or any other name...

Every once in a while I come across a book that seems so sublime, that I wonder if it was written just for me. I don’t like pegging an...

August, 2020 Sion, an excellent and well-respected fortune-teller, lives in a kingdom just along the Great Wall of China. Everyone went...

February, 2018 If an illustrator signs a copy of his book for my students at school, a bias is warranted isn't it? So at the outset, let...