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Zapped : Aditi Dilip's Witty Story for the #6FrameStoryChallenge
The bright pink of the desert. The moon surrounded by a sea of glittering stars. Cactus' annoyed expression in the last frame. These are a few of the reasons why we were drawn to 'Zapped', Aditi's...
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The Old Lady Who Loved Juggling : Niloufer Wadia's Version for the...
Niloufer Wadia used our readymade narrative called, 'The Old Lady Who Loved Juggling'. We were beside ourselves with excitement when we saw her illustrations. The explosion of colours, unique...
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Hindi Publishers Move Towards Adopting Technology and New Strategies
Via Business StandardHindi language publishers are adapting - and how - by offering fresh content, launching mobile apps and aggressively marketing their books to resurrect the genre's lost stature...
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FunOKPlease's Experiences with Fundraising and Book Launches
In the month of December, we started seeing the hashtag #Brownchallenge appear on our Facebook timeline. The challenge had been thrown open by the FunOKPlease team to coincide with the launch of their...
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Deepa Jayaraman's Sparsely Coloured Yet Densely Populated Narrative For The...
Deepa Jayaraman's art is very strongly rooted in children's books that she grew up with. As a child, she remembers focussing more on the visual aspects of a book than the text itself. Some of her...
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“My Sweet Story Turned A Wee Bit Wicked As I Started To Draw!” - Anupama Apte...
Anupama says her only 'arty' ambition in life is to be able to skillfully use light and shadows in watercolour, and we think she has succeeded in doing just that! We love the adorable little...
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Swish Swish... A Broom Comes to the Rescue in Nishith Mehta's Story for the...
With all the attention that the broom has received lately, we couldn't help but notice how Nishith's 6-frame story has come in at just the right time. His visual narrative is impressively strong and...
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An Unexpected Solution : Muhammed Shafi's Story for the #6FrameStoryChallenge
The word 'jugaad' came to our mind when we saw the story sent in by Muhammed Shafi. With minimal use of colours, a clean template and a 'flowing' narrative, find out how Muhammed's character battles...
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The Adventurous Bear - Amar Soni's Story for the #6FrameStoryChallenge
Amar Soni chose one of the readymade narratives for his story. In the story, not only is the bear an adventurous kind, he also has a dream about visiting Pluto. Does his wish come true? Find out in the...
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"Medium to Showcase My Own Style of Comic Book Art Apart From Having a Lot of...
The adventures of Mathai and Tyro have a quirky and fun touch to them! We love how Satya Prakash has captured several nuances of expression in just 6 frames!Satya Krishna Prakash K. says,"I signed up...
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Using Mobiles to Fight Illiteracy
Via TEDx TalksThere are 774 million people on the planet that cannot read or write. Despite all of the work done and money spent, the number of illiterate people in Sub Saharan Africa has actually...
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A Story With Happiness Written All Over It - Lavanya Karthik's Entry for the...
We're glad that Lavanya Karthik had such a blast while weaving a visual story around the 6 words that she picked: flying woman, mango, dance, river, parachute, starry night sky. In fact, her joy has...
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A New Ray - Sonal Gupta's Kaleidoscopic Take for the #6FrameStoryChallenge
We included 'Manta Ray' in our Word Wishlist for the #6FrameStoryChallenge mostly because it's such a fascinating creature to look at and we were eager to see it enter our books. But Sonal Gupta's...
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Language Under a Language Coffin
21st February was International Mother Language Day and our blog turned multilingual to celebrate. We hosted a series of blog posts by different authors, illustrators, parents, educators and children -...
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"Here's One Rule, Now Go Crazy With It" - Kabini Amin on the...
Kabini Amin's playful story has so many layers and stories within stories. Take a 'closer look' at this story just like the little kid in the story is.Kabini tells us why she took up the...
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Book Review : My Two Great Grandmothers
Indian Moms Connect reviews our book 'My Two Great-Grandmothers' written and illustrated by Lisa Aisato N’jie Solberg.Via India Moms ConnectMy Two Great-Grandmothers by Lisa Aisato is a story about a...
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Chatting with Vaishali Shroff and Tapas Guha about 'The Missing Bat'
The World Cup has started and cricket is in the air. A perfect time to chat about our book which is funny tale from Kashmir. We caught up with Vaishali Shroff and Tapas Guha to talk about their book -...
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The Magic Trick : Jason Dvorak's Story for the #6FrameStoryChallenge
We've been experiencing a little rain here in Bangalore and at times the sky puts up a brilliant show too! But looks like lighting and rain aren't things that the bear in Jason Dvorak's story enjoy....
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The Lost Birthday : Tanvi Bhat's Narrative for the #6FrameStoryChallenge
So many illustrators who have been participating in the #6FrameStoryChallenge have been telling us that playing with the random words presented in the Word Wishlist was an adventure on its own. Tanvi...
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Urdu and Your Brain
Did you know that a recent study claims that reading Urdu had several good effects on your brain?Via The Times of IndiaReading an Urdu couplet is not only a delight for your soul but also an elixir for...
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