2019 Archive

Karimuga the Pleasant Little Rakshasa with Nivedita Subramaniam

A Doha is a two-line verse that conveys a thought or a story.

Description: Meet Karimuga the rambunctious rakshasa and find out why he is the happiest of them all. A session with storytelling, rhyme and a little bit of craft thrown in. The session will be conducted by Niveditha Subramaniam, a writer-illustrator based in Chennai. She cherishes every opportunity to celebrate her abiding love for visuals and has published 14 books, ranging from picture books to teen-fiction and a graphic novel for young adults. Her latest offering is This is me, Mayil (co-authored with Sowmya Rajendran). A wordless picture book is in the pipeline. Niveditha is a Charles Wallace India Trust Scholar (2015 – 2017) and a recipient of the Bal Sahitya Puraskar (2015). Six of her titles have been recommended by the CBSE and 2 by the NCERT for schools.

Age: 4 Years and Above

Language: English

Duration: 1 Hour and 15 mins

Note: Free Attendance but Limited to 25 children

Excuse Me, Is This a Poem? with Anushka Ravishankar

Description: Should poetry always be about pretty flowers and profound thoughts? Let's try getting real. Let's make poetry out of smelly things and oily things, silly things and daily things. Yup, this too can be poetry! The session will be conducted by Anushka Ravishankar. She has written over thirty books for children, including picture books in verse, chapter books, retellings of folk tales and non-fiction. Several of them have been published internationally and have won awards. Some of her books are: Catch That Crocodile, Moin and the Monster, To Market To Market and Tiger on a Tree. She has worked in an editorial capacity at Tara Books and Scholastic India. In 2012, she co-founded Duckbill Books, which publishes funny, edgy and exciting Indian books for children and young adults.

Age: 10 Years and Above

Language: English

Duration: 1 Hour and 15 mins

Note: Free Attendance but Limited to 25 children

They searched for Blue - Mask and a Poem with Barnali Ray Shuklae

Description: Come, make us listen to your words, make friends with your imagination as you find your way to an imaginary world with your poems and us. Here is a space and platform to create and not cater, thus open up new ideas for pre teens who are increasingly growing up in single kid families, and perhaps don't hang out enough with kids their age and given that living is increasingly in closed spaces. In this workshop children work with one prop - a mask. The session will include DIY work and also ask the children to write a poem.

Age: 8 to 12 years

Language: English

Duration: 1 Hour and 15 mins

Note: Free Attendance but Limited to 25 children

Tutu Plays Hide and Seekwith Ramya Srinidhi and Prashant Sankaran

Description: A story session about adventures of a little girl and her furry friend "It started as another ordinary Saturday for Tutu. No school, nothing to do but play with Kaalu. But then, almost as soon as they begun their first game of Hide and Seek, every thing changed...and an adventure began..." Interactive story session by Ramya Srinidhi, followed by a free flowing interaction with the author, Prashant Sankaran.

Age: 6 Years and Above

Language: English

Duration: 60 mins

Note: Free Attendance but Limited to 25 children

Button Where? Button There! with Aparna Kapur

Description: tep into the Universe as Aparna reads from her new poetry book Red Button, Blue Button. Using buttons as inspiration -- round, square, old, new -- participants will create their own button-creatures and learn how to write an irreverent poem to match. The session will be conducted by Aparna Kapur who is the Deputy Editor at Pratham Books. She has previously worked as the Assistant Editor for the children’s science magazine, Brainwave, and written several comic books for Amar Chitra Katha. She has also co-authored Ruckus on the Road for Puffin.

Age: 6 to 12 years

Language: English

Duration: 60 mins

Note: Free Attendance but Limited to 25 children