For 9-12 years | Taut Histories
(For 9-12 years | Room No. 103) Taut Histories – Imagine living through a movement of resistance against a foreign power. Author Tanu Shree Singh’s new book, The Letter to Lahore, examines this era through Luxmi’s eyes. Try your hand at walking down the path of history to see the stories that you return with. […]
For 9-12 years | Creature Chronicles
(For 9-12 years | Room No. 101) Creature Chronicles: Find out what writers and illustrators do to make their animal stories exciting, with the award-winning author and illustrator duo Bijal Vachharajani and Rajiv Eipe. Create an animal stories comic of your own. (45m)
For 16+ years | Layers of Reading
(For 16+ years | Room No. 106) Layers of Reading: What are the insights that the close reading of a text brings forth that a surface-level reading does not? Discover how meaning comes from a relationship between form and content with expert Language and Literature educators Colin Kelman and Anu Ruhil Barua (45m)
For 13-18 years | Adapting Stories for the Stage and the Screen
(For 13-18 years | Room No. 105) Adapting Stories for the Stage and the Screen: How do writers make their readers or viewers care for the characters they create for the page, the stage, or the screen? Author Adithi Rao has done it all. Here’s your chance to learn how she goes about it. (60m)
For 13-18 years | Creativity in Animation
(For 13-18 years | Room No. 104) Creativity in Animation: Explore how creativity fuels animation, and the techniques that may best serve an idea, with master practitioner and National Award-winning animation film maker Suresh Eriyat, a pioneer who has contributed to the growth of the animation industry in India over the years. (60m)
For 9-12 years | Literary Keepsakes
(For 9-12 years | Room No. 103) Literary Keepsakes: In a fire emergency, what is the one object that you would choose to take with you? Award-winning author Linda Sue Park builds on the same idea in her book, The One Thing You’d Save, a collection in verse inspired by the Korean poetry form sijo. […]
For 9-12 years | Vaccine for Smartypants
(For 9-12 years | Room No. 101) Vaccine for Smartypants: Smartypants the cat is in a suit of armour and then dressed as a detective on a mission to understand how vaccines fight germs in the body. Work with the award-winning author Anushka Ravishankar to frame a few pages of your version of Smartypants’ next […]
For 9-12 years | Returning to a Favourite Fictional World
(For 9-12 years | Room No. 112) Returning to a Favourite Fictional World – Sail along the river of story with the award-winning writer Anita Nair as she revisits the fictional land of Kaikurrusi in her new book for children, Bipathu and A Very Big Dream. What would your version of your own Kaikurrusi be […]
For 9-12 years | Blending the Light and the Dark
(For 9-12 years | Room No. 111) Blending the Light and the Dark – Learn from the author Soumya Ayer on how to balance sombre topics with a touch of light humour in one’s writing, as she does with The Ghost of Malabar. (45m)
For 13-18 years | Visualising History
(For 13-18 years | Room No. 106) Visualising History: Connecting the dots between historical facts over time, and depicting these in a visual format holds advantages over using plain text. Find out more with graphic novelist Nikhil Gulati, and how he does this in his book, The People of the Indus (45m)