Extra 5% Off
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Business & Economics
Childrenโs Books
Sort By
Relevance
Extra 5% Off on minimum shopping โน999
Assured 3-5 Days Express Delivery across India.
Extra 10% Off on minimum shopping โน1499
Anindya Ray
MRP: โน 299
โน 269
โน 30 Off
(Incl. of all taxes)
Get this at โน 256
Extra 5% Off
Get this at โน 242
Extra 10% Off
Piracy Free
Express Delivery
Secure Transactions
EcoโConscious Packaging
Binding
Paperback
Number of Pages
75
Age Group
6-8 Years
Language
English
Book Summary
About the BookA letter buried in 1985, found in 2024. The question a child asked it has been quietly answered ever since.In the winter after the gas, a boy in Bhopal buries a biscuit tin at the base of the one wall still standing in his lane. Inside the tin is a list of names, a few sentences in a childs careful hand, and a question he asks of whoever might one day find it.Thirty-nine years later, a young architect kneels at that wall during a restoration survey. The soil is loose where it shouldnt be. She brushes it back the way you do when you sense something has been waiting.The story moves between two cities and two generations: Bhopal in 1985 and Coimbatore in the present day. A mother lighting a lamp at the door every evening of one terrible winter. A teacher reading Premchand aloud in a Tamil classroom forty years later. A boy. A tin. A wall that didnt fall.It is a story about names, and about the small, slow ways one person taking care can matter to another.Thodi thodi. Little by little.A story in a childs hands. A lamp in a lane. A voice at a door.About the AuthorSome stories arrive all at once. Anindya Rays came thodi thodi, a little at a time, across forty years inside Indias fashion industry. He scribbled them on napkins and in the margins of factory visits, and one day there were too many to ignore.He has written two books on the business of fashion and draws the cartoon series Cutting Chai. This graphic novella is the first time those scribbles have turned into a story. He lives in Bangalore.
Product Details
Author
Anindya Ray
Publisher
Indie Press
Number of Pages
75
Language
English
SKU
9789379840240
ISBN
9789379840240
Reading Age
6-8 Years
Dimensions
21.59 x 13.97 x 1.19 cm
Binding
Paperback
MRP: โน 299
โน 269
โน 30 Off