A collection of stories by aspiring writers all under five-feet tall now have their award-winning entries published in the book, By Us For Us, which hits city bookshelves early next year
A collection of stories by aspiring writers all under five-feet tall now have their award-winning entries published in the book, By Us For Us, which hits city bookshelves early next year
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The collection of stories features protagonists ranging from kings and queens to the writers themselves. The idea was to get children to express themselves in a time when they are "growing up in a world where there is collective imagination, not a personal one", as writer Prasoon Joshi remarks in the foreword.
The book is part of the HP Write and Read project that is supported by Delhi-based NGO Katha, as an attempt to promote the tradition of storytelling and to nurture future generations of story-tellers, so that the generation that has grown up "seeing lots, but imagining less" is forced to re-look at the world that lie both within and outside themselves through new eyes.
The book promises to be a treasure trove of ideas, as founder and executive director, Geeta Dharmarajan, mentions in the book, " The sea of imagination that our amazing writers plunged into brings you this awesome catch of stories."
By Us For Us is published by Katha;
Rs 375. Available at leading bookstores from Janaury 10, 2012
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