Feb 23, 2014 | Events & Appearances
Date: April 19, 2014, 7 PM Venue: Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival, Sharjah Expo center, UAE Join me for a discussion on Folklore in the Age of the Internet at the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival, which will be held between April 15th and 25th, 2014. Please...
Feb 23, 2014 | Book Reviews, Events & Appearances
The drudgery, complexity and rigour of creative writing are not exactly the ingredients of a story. Rather than the basis of a storybook, and a children’s book at that, this material belongs squarely in the realm of textbooks. The genius of author Payal Kapadia and...
Feb 16, 2014 | Book Reviews
Wisha hated bad books, but she hated one thing even more: good ones. Good books always left her feeling she could do better if she were to write a book of her own. She’d put down a good book, sighing, ‘Now that’s a book I could have written.’ So this is Wisha’s...
Feb 11, 2014 | Book Reviews
A few weeks back, my daughter took the book with her to the Kahaani Karnival held in Mumbai and got it signed by the author. One happy kid! 🙂 What really got me interested in Wisha Wozzariter by Payal Kapadia was the premise. It was a very ‘realistic’...