Ju's Story: A different taleJu’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 OctoberThis Gandhi Jayanti, we're offering a unique way of engaging with Gandhi – virtually, through our first-ever blog exclusively for...
Illustrating Ju's StoryI 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 schoolAugust 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 writtenSome 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 booksThis 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 booksAway from the formal setting of a classroom and even inside a few of them, a few committed writers, educators and creative people are...