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Posted 1 August 2016 by Goodbooks

Bangalore, or Bengaluru as it is today, has a few parts that have remained untouched over the years. The cantonment areas from a colonial past...

Posted 15 June 2016 by Goodbooks

Unless all the stories inside are by the same favourite author (think Enid Blyton or Ruskin Bond), anthologies are unreliable things, best...

Posted 1 April 2016 by Goodbooks

I must admit approaching Gayathri Ponvannan’s Time Racers with a considerable amount of annoyance. Why was it, I wondered, that every other...

Posted 15 August 2015 by Goodbooks

Mayil Ganeshan, the twelve-year-old heroine of Mayil Will Not Be Quiet, which won the Bal Sahitya Puraskar this year, is a diarist who wants to be...

Posted 15 August 2015 by Goodbooks

Adults who spend a lot of time debating about the appropriateness of reading material for children are going to have a field day with this one...

Posted 1 June 2015 by Goodbooks

Indian Young Adult fiction is reflective of its readership – hormonal, inconsistent and a while away from coming of age. The key problem authors...

Posted 1 April 2015 by Goodbooks

From the moment Nina tells you she can write, draw, paint, figure things out and blow things up, you know you are in for an adventure. With a kid...

Posted 15 January 2015 by Goodbooks

In recent years, Young Adult fiction in India has been making significant inroads into erstwhile taboo areas and, in Talking of Muskaan, Himanjali...

Posted 15 June 2014 by Goodbooks

Clearly, the author is a man with a mission: to get children sensitized to the issue of tribals in India. The nub of this story – a city...

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