Her style was easy to read and very convincing. At that time, Triveni was a very popular writer in the Kannada language. The weekly magazine used to come one day late.Ěll of us would wait eagerly for the bus, which used to come with the papers, weekly magazines and the post. Those days, the transport system was not very good, so we used to get the morning paper only in the afternoon. How I Taught My Grandmother to Read When I was a girl of about twelve, I used to stay in a village in north Karnataka with my grandparents. Had she not insisted, the stories would have remained in my mind for ever. I want to thank Sudeshna Shome Ghosh of Penguin India. I hope you will like and enjoy reading them. I have always wanted to tell these stories to the next generation. In the course of my work for the Infosysğoundation and as a teacher, I meet many people, young and old, each of whom has enriched my life in some way. In this collection, I have tried to recreate some stories from my experiences, all of which have taught me something. I have laughed and learnt valuable lessons about knowledge and wit from the stories ofĚesop, Tenali Rama anděirbal.
While listening to my grandfather, in my mind I became anĚrab and changed my dress to walk the streets ofěaghdad and inspect the thieves with the Wazir-e-Alam. I cried when the first war of Independence, which theěritish called ‘Mutiny’, was lost. I have been thrilled listening to the description of the battles of Raja Ranjit Singh and moved to tears with the stories of his large- heartedness. I enjoyed the victory of Shivaji sitting next to his great mother Jeejabai. It requires the proper modulation of voice, in order to create an atmosphere of horror, surprise, humour or peace.ĝuring those storytelling nights, I have travelled with my grandfather to the battlefield of Haldi Ghati in Rajasthan and cried for the dead horseĜhetan.
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The arrival of TV and the dramatizations of our ancient epics brought these stories closer to us and helped us know them, but it also removed the power of imagination. Now families are nuclear and children rarely get to live with their grandparents. The years rolled by, and so much changed in India. The Katha Saritsagara (the Ocean of Stories),Ěrabian Nights, Panchatantra, stories ofĚesop,ěirbal and Tenali Rama were told to me during those beautiful nights. These tales taught me some of my first lessons in life. These were stories from the history of India, the epics and whatever interesting things he had read that day in the papers and magazines. He knew a vast number of Sanskrit texts by heart and every night, under the dark sky with the twinkling stars, he would tell me many stories.
My grandfather was a retired school teacher and an avid reader.
Those days there were no televisions, music systems or VCDs at home. This is her first book for children.ĭedicated to the citizens of tomorrow who will bring changes in our countryįoreword I was brought up in a village. Her previousĞnglish book Wise and Otherwise has been translated into thirteen Indian languages. She is also theĜhairperson of the Infosys Foundation.Ě prolific writer in Kannada, she has written seven novels, four technical books, three travelogues and two collections of short stories. inĜomputer Science, she teachesĜomputer Science to postgraduate students. P U FFIN BOOKS HOW I TAU GHT M Y GRAN DM OTHER TO READĚN D OTHER STORIES Sudha Murty was born inđ950 in Shiggaon in north Karnataka.Ěn M.Tech. R.ĝ.’ HEART OF GOLD A WEDDIN G IN RU SSIA ‘ AMMA, WHAT IS YOU RĝU TY? ’ THE STORY OF TWOĝOCTORS A JOU RN EY THROU GHĝESERT DEAD M AN ’ S RIDDLE ‘I WILLĝO IT’ THE RAIN YĝAY DOIN G WHAT YOU LIKE ISğREEDOM GOWRAMMA’S LETTER WHO IS GREAT? BALU ’ S STORY ‘ A’ğOR HON ESTY A LESSON IN IN GRATITU DE MYěIGGEST MISTAKE THE SECRET Copyright Page SUDHA MURTY How I Taught My Grandmother to Read and Other Stories P U FFIN BOOKSĬontents About theĚuthor Dedication FOREWORD HOW I TAU GHT M Y GRAN DM OTHER TO READ BOOKSğOR ‘ AT LEAST ON E LIBRARY’ ABDU L KALAM HASSAN ’ SĚTTEN DAN CE P ROBLEM THE RED RICE GRAN ARY THE REAL JEWELS A HISTORY LESSON ON TEACHERS’ĝAY ‘APPRO J.
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