The beautiful handmade cards in this box are rendered in the brilliant Mithila style of folk painting from eastern India.

A  Gond tribal fable about water...and on the human relationship to this most primeval of elements.

Exquisitely rendered images of an imaginative water-world – in the Mithila folk style from Bihar.

By Anushka Ravishankar

I did not discover nonsense so much as recognise it with a shout of joy when I was almost twenty years old. What a waste of two decades! Of course, I had read nonsense as a child. I’d read the wickedly funny poems in the Alice books by Lewis Carroll and I knew some of Edward Lear’s gently silly poems and limericks. But I had no idea that nonsense was a respected literary genre. (Well, sort of respected.)