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In the moment...

Sometimes we find stories in the things that we see and experience. At other times stories find us. In the case of The Tamarind Tree,...

HOW TO BE … DIFFERENT!

I AM DIFFERENT began as an idea about the fact that many people are made to feel bad about being different to others. And yet, there are...

'Where is Thangi?' asks little Yoshua

"Flitter, flutter, butterfly!", "Bzzz bzzzz mosquito", " Nooooooooo...." Little Yoshua's dramatic performance of Where is Thangi?, one of...

'Why are you afraid to hold my hand?'

Over twenty five years ago in a school run by the Spastics Society of India in Mumbai was born a spark of an idea. As a final year NID...

Artful storytelling

The Looking at Art series happened quite by chance (as most good things in life do). Thanks to Tulika it came into being, otherwise the...

Tulika at the 2009 Bookaroo Children's Literature Festival

The basics: when - 28th & 29th November where - Sanskriti, Anand Gram, Mehrauli Gurgaon Road, New Delhi- 110 047 With a host of varied...

Setting sail again

It felt wonderful to return to Suresh and the Sea, with children aged 5 to 9 years at The School, KFI, Chennai on Wednesday, 18 November....

The Sounds of Stories

I’d never done a reading or workshop for visually challenged children before. I thought that I can’t really do it like the others where I...

Who IS this cat in the hat?

Ask author of three Tulika books on Gandhi, Sandhya Rao, and she'll probably give you a sly smile and ask you to come and find out for...

Ju's Story: A different tale

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...

Connecting with Gandhiji on 2 October

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

Illustrating Ju's Story

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...

The thumb rules!

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...

The How of 'Where's That Cat?'

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...

Reading to little ones at Project Why's school

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,...

Thumbthing to make reading fun!

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

Tulika's Tamil stories: Bridging the spoken and the written

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

Points of view and imagining possibilities in 'The Lights Changed'

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...

Writing creatively in the company of Tulika books

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...

The Why of 'Where's that Cat'?

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,...

Words and their associations in Sorry, Best Friend!

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...

Responding to Tulika books

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

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