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The Puffin Treasury of Modern Indian Stories is a unique collection of stories and excerpts written by master storytellers. It represents for the first time the richness and range of writing for children in India during the twentieth century.
From Ruskin Bond’s humorous ‘Snake Trouble’ and Vikram Seth’s animal fable in verse ‘The Elephant and the Tragopan’, to Salman Rushdie’s fantasy ‘Haroun and the Sea of Stories’ and Satyajit Ray’s gripping tale ‘The Hungry Septopus’, this anthology has a vibrant mix of styles and forms.
With spectacular illustrations by a host of the most talented artists working today, this anthology will delight both children and adults.
Contributors include:
Paro Anand
Margaret Bhatty
Pankaj Bisht
Ruskin Bond
Anita Desai
Shashi Deshpande
Shama Futehally
Mala Marwah
Arvind Krishan Mehrotra
Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Meenakshi Mukherjee
R.K. Narayan
Premchand
Sara Rai
Shanta Rameshwar Rao
Hemangini Ranade
Satyajit Ray
Salman Rushdie
Bhisham Sahni
Poile Sengupta
Subhadra Sen Gupta
Vikram Seth
Khushwant Singh
Kalpana Swaminathan
About the author Mala Dayal graduated from Cambridge and has been involved with developing, selecting and editing material for children for the last thirty years. She has written and translated several books for children, including The Story of Guru Nanak (1969) which is still in print. She was the editor of the Nehru Bal Pustakalaya series and chief editor of the National Centre for Children’s Literature in the National Book Trust.
The Puffin Treasury of Modern Indian Stories is a unique collection of stories and excerpts written by master storytellers. It represents for the first time the richness and range of writing for children in India during the twentieth century.
From Ruskin Bond’s humorous ‘Snake Trouble’ and Vikram Seth’s animal fable in verse ‘The Elephant and the Tragopan’, to Salman Rushdie’s fantasy ‘Haroun and the Sea of Stories’ and Satyajit Ray’s gripping tale ‘The Hungry Septopus’, this anthology has a vibrant mix of styles and forms.
With spectacular illustrations by a host of the most talented artists working today, this anthology will delight both children and adults.
Contributors include:
Paro Anand
Margaret Bhatty
Pankaj Bisht
Ruskin Bond
Anita Desai
Shashi Deshpande
Shama Futehally
Mala Marwah
Arvind Krishan Mehrotra
Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Meenakshi Mukherjee
R.K. Narayan
Premchand
Sara Rai
Shanta Rameshwar Rao
Hemangini Ranade
Satyajit Ray
Salman Rushdie
Bhisham Sahni
Poile Sengupta
Subhadra Sen Gupta
Vikram Seth
Khushwant Singh
Kalpana Swaminathan
About the author Mala Dayal graduated from Cambridge and has been involved with developing, selecting and editing material for children for the last thirty years. She has written and translated several books for children, including The Story of Guru Nanak (1969) which is still in print. She was the editor of the Nehru Bal Pustakalaya series and chief editor of the National Centre for Children’s Literature in the National Book Trust.
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