Ju’s Story is one of the stories that came out ‘Different Tales', a project begun in November 2005 by the Anveshi Research Centre for...

This Gandhi Jayanti, we're offering a unique way of engaging with Gandhi – virtually, through our first-ever blog exclusively for...

I was thrilled when I received a call from Tulika about a project to illustrate a children's book. The last time I had such and...

Children love making a mess, and I do too. Fingerprints are delightful symbols of grime and mess, and when Tulika asked me to do a series...

Another thing that just happened was that I decided to base the drawings in the book on an actual street, in Chennai. Every city is...

August 28 was a special day. That was the day I met some truly lovely children and their teachers at Project Why’s school in Govindpuri,...

Publishing and distributing books in English Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati and Bangla have opened up...

Some time ago, a lively local radio jockey called to ask what I thought was special about Tamil. Words, I replied. Original and borrowed...

This workshop was one of the 10 sessions of a Reading Club Workshop held in a school in Matunga called Shishuvan. I rate this school as...

This was the first time I have ‘taught’ creative writing. I read voraciously and am at a loss if I don’t have a book on standby to read...

Ever since the time I worked on a textless, illustrated book, I've been wanting to do a second one. That was in 1986 and the book,...

In the last week of March, I held a 5-day creative writing workshop for 8 to10-year-olds in Juhu, Mumbai. On the 4th day, I focused on...

Away from the formal setting of a classroom and even inside a few of them, a few committed writers, educators and creative people are...