13 Sep Bhajju’s Sun Card
A brilliant rendering of the sun in the Gond style of tribal art silkscreen-printed on handmade paper.
13 Sep Subash’s Sun Card
A brilliant rendering of the sun in the Gond style of tribal art silkscreen-printed on handmade paper.
27 Aug Nonsense
By Anushka RavishankarI 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.)
29 Jul The Past is Always Present: 28 Years of Tara Books
By Gita Wolf and V. GeethaYears later, when asked about Tara’s origins, Gita Wolf would say, “I didn’t really have a business plan, nor had I thought through all that publishing involved. As an avid child-reader fed on Anglo-Saxon books, it seemed to me that fun and adventure seemed to happen only to children in other places… and I wondered, why not right here?”
19 Jul The Allegory Tree
Durga Bai: A tree is home to many stories.
19 Jul The Antler Tree
Ramsingh Urveti: A deer wonders when his antlers will bloom.
19 Jul The Tell-Tale Tree
Durga Bai: The birds bring back news.
19 Jul The Leaf Tree
Bhajju Shyam: The detail is the same as the whole.