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'Being aware is the first step towards gender equality': Excerpts from 'Gender Talk – Big Hero, Size

With gender issues hitting the news hotspots more and more, there are questions and doubts, and the answers are covered by a smog of...

'Fiercely fun, madly morose and prone to spontaneous combustion': An extract from 'This is Me, Mayil

For every moment of clarity, young people are faced with several others filled with anger, confusion and self-doubt. Our Mayil Ganeshan...

#MayilVerse for Better or Worse!

So it’s time to emerge And spread my wings to fly The expressions that I once submerged Take me through the sky – excerpt from the...

Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2015 for Mayil Will Not Be Quiet!

A flower shower for the award-winning Mayil Will Not Be Quiet!, Sowmya Rajendran, who co-authored the book with Niveditha Subramaniam –...

Mayil Will Not Be Quiet! - an experience

Writer Sowmya Rajendran shares her experience with the boys at Bishops School, Pune, after discussing with them the popular Mayil Will...

Pleasant Rakshasa - Quirky Q&A

January 21, 2013

The Pleasant Rakshasa story

When I was an editor with a children’s magazine, I sat next to a pillar in office that had the image of a purple-coloured rakshasa who...

Bookaroo in the City: Mayil Will Not Be Quiet

As part of Bookaroo in the City, we took Mayil Will Not Be Quiet to Satyug Darshan Vidyalaya, Faridabad. The auditorium was packed with...

Woohoo, Bookaroo!

Writers Niveditha Subramaniam and Sowmya Rajendran took snow kings, sky monkeys and a merry rakshasa with them to Bookaroo. Sowmya shares...

Have you met...

...Gagan and Chikki? Gagan is from a town in Punjab, in northern India.He and his friend, Chikki the cat, love to play and to listen to...

Powerless in Perambur

Author Sowmya Rajendran describes the process of writing 'Power Cut' , a Tulika title that is due for release shortly. Watch this space!...

Never to forget...

Like Keshav in the story, I've spent many an hour as a child sitting rolled up inside a mat, inventing bizarre stories for my own...

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