PICTURE BOOKS Little Gajapati Kulapati – Kweee! by Ashok Rajagopalan Trumpeting the start of the year, this is a rewind to the time we...

“Were you depressed when you wrote this story?” a Grade 3 student asked me at the end of a session on my latest book The Monster at the...

One sweltering June day in 2022, while working on a project with the Irulas of Thiruvallur district in Tamil Nadu, my interns and I met...

Every now and then, a message from a reader puts a smile on my face. “Am so sleepy :) Was waiting to tell this to someone....

1. What sparked the idea for 'The Rooster That Would Not Crow'? Birds and animals on a farm are a delight to observe and those of us who...

It was during the pandemic, when I was feeling overwhelmed with my job, housework, online school and a book deadline, that I looked at my...

Our latest book, Sculpted Stones – Mysteries of Mamallapuram is out now! Here's a conversation with the author Ashwin Prabhu about the...

PICTURE BOOKS Out in the Moonlight by Perumal Murugan, pictures Ashok Rajagopalan A little boy makes the most of a bright moonlit night...

Naming things is not easy. It’s a huge responsibility, after all, deciding what something or someone will be called for the rest of their...

Rediscover the stories of Sita and Helen with author Shailee... Have you ever heard a tale so epic that it spans across time, cultures...

Ashok Rajagopalan talks about how emotions, modes and colours all came together in his inspired illustration of Out in the Moonlight......

PICTURE BOOKS If black ants are “god’s little ants” then they must know where god lives. So Kuhu starts to trail one – to the most...

Author Joeanna Rebello Fernandes on her lifelong love for handmade clothes… Of all the films I watched as a child, the one that stuck out...

Illustrators Nina Sabnani and Durgabai Vyam explore the art and craft of indigenous India — from digna to embroidered saris — to create...

Author Achintyarup Ray talks about how his daughter, his many visits to Sundarban, and his own childhood experiences inspired him to...

Librarian and reading specialist Anne Dayanandan shares her thoughts on our latest picture book, Many Colours of Us! PLUS suggested...

When I was little, my grandmother would say, “Eat up! Eat up or the jokhini will come and get you.” I would be afraid (and slightly...

A good decade-plus after Yes, Hutoxi!, Mannu the monkey jumped off a jamun tree to give the much loved Baby Bahadur series its sixth...

Five-year-old Peter Marmorek was fascinated by the elephants he had read about in books, especially Dr Seuss’s Horton and Rudyard...

We’ve tried to take you far and wide To give you the many sides Of people like or unlike you In many voices, many hues. And as we turn...

How did the idea for My Name is Gulab come to you? I'm a visual person. A picture says a thousand words – or rather, a story! That's how...

Bow WOW! This International Dog Day take a ‘paws’ and turn into a dog with two tails! For it’s time to celebrate the furry friends who...

A story is entertaining. But it can also hold glimpses of history, geography, culture, art… It can spark discussions from simple,...

ELEPHANT ENCOUNTERS A dangerous face-off, cries of distress at night… A summer holiday in the jungles of Corbett country turns out to be...