An Ode to Walk Gone By

Winner of the Open category prize at the Prof. Barbra Naidu Memorial Contest for the Personal Essay 2017

Advaita the Writer

A story of separation, of belonging, of space, of identity, of dreams, of inspiration. There is something irresistible about the book, Advaita the Writer, by Ken Spillman. It's not just the story, the characters, the setting, the language or the structure. ...

Ninja Nani and the Bumbling Burglars

The Ninja Nani series brings together all the things I enjoy most in books – slapstick humour, zany characters, weird sound effects, even weirder dialogues, illustrations that do not behave themselves but wander all over the page ...

Phiss Phuss Boom

In my house, the grandmother of fart jokes, songs and stories was my older sister. She would put the colloquial word in Tamil to full use and it never ceased to amaze me the amount ...

Koobandhee - The Adventures of Bala and the Book-Barfing Monster

Children’s literature is filled with books about books, about the quiet joys of reading and the energy-filled silences of libraries and the soaring imaginative pages of adventure and books that talk and books that breathe and books that linger ...