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Paradox: it doesn't make sense but it's worth doing
Writing reconciles opposites says Suniti Namjoshi as she lucidly explores the paradoxes inherent in the craft of writing with the...
Tulika at Saffron Tree
Tulika Books have been getting wonderful press over at the Saffron Tree blog - which describes itself as the "recommendations and...


When Baby Bahadur came into this world…
When I told my then five-year old a bedtime story about a sleepy little elephant (in the vain hope that it would induce him to go to...


Talking Art at Eureka
On a chilly Sunday morning I headed over to Eureka book-store in Delhi’s Alaknanda colony. Much to my delight (and their mothers' I’m...


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...


Just ask Vyasa & Valmiki: the 'Our Myths' series launch
Sparring with a brilliant scribe or being humbled by a gracious rival... creating epic stories can't be easy! Vyasa and Valmiki tell you...
A multilingual presence in children's publishing
An interview with Radhika Menon, Tulika Books (as told to Scharada Dubey) The Buzz at Chamiers, Vol 1, Issue 18, Dec 2009- Jan 2010...


What's the moral of the story?
Tulika's Thumb Thumb Books series has been published in Tamil by Bharati Puthakalayam's children's imprint, Books for Children, in a...


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...
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