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A Man Called Bapu

"I want world sympathy in this battle of Right against Might,"  so wrote Mahatma Gandhi in a letter.  And the whole world sat up and took...

Themes: freedom struggle, Mahatma Gandhi

Age group : 12+ yrs

Ashoka: The Great and Compassionate King

HISTORY never ceases to surprise. With every new fact unearthed, perspective shifts ever so slightly, that it opens up a whole new world to explore....

Themes: Ashoka the Great, Buddhism, historical

Age group : 12+ yrs

Bishnu, the Dhobi Singer

Children will love this endearing tale of Bishnu, a dhobi’s son who loved to sing. The author has cleverly combined several interesting...

Themes: great musicians of India, historical, Mughals, perseverance, Tansen

Age group : 9+ yrs

Kallu's World - In Big Trouble Again!

Kallu was inevitably late for school. When the Masterji threatened to make him repeat the class he became extremely nervous, as he had some beautiful...

Themes: humour, school

Age group : 7+ yrs

Kallu's World 2

A humourus story set in a tiny little village called Kh

Subhadra Sen Gupta (1952-2021): A beloved children’s author is taken away by Covid-19

There are people of a certain vintage, children of the 1980s and 90s, who remember an English children’s magazine called Target. In our house, we were enthusiastic readers of Target. We didn’t get much else Indian fare. For that, there were stories and novels in Bengali. But in English we read Enid Blyton, the classics, and Tintin. Into this world, came Target like a breath of fresh air.

Here there were stories written by familiar sounding names – Sigrun Srivastava, Ruskin Bond, Margaret Bhatty. In the pages of Target I saw comics by Ajit Ninan and it was here that I first met the writer Subhadra Sen Gupta. Her stories, often mixing food and history, had children with names just like ours. They lived in Delhi or Lucknow, and had fantastic adventures even in these places. Who knew that was possible!

The ’80s rolled by, and my days of reading Target fell by the wayside. The magazine quietly folded into other teen publications, and eventually disappeared. I was too busy with life to no

Subhadra Sen Gupta

Indian writer (1952–2021)

Subhadra Sen Gupta

BornJune 1952
Delhi, India
Died3 May 2021(2021-05-03) (aged 68)
LanguageEnglish
EducationDelhi University
Period1980s–2021[1]
Genrehistorical fiction, non-fiction, travel, mystery, horror
Notable worksMystery of the House of Pigeons

Subhadra Sen Gupta (June 1952 – 3 May 2021)[1][2] was an Indian writer. She was the winner of Sahitya Akademi's 2015 Bal Sahitya Puraskar[3] and wrote over 30 books. Her book, Mystery of the House of Pigeons, was adapted into a television series for Doordarshan as Khoj Khazana Khojher.[4] Most of her books are in the genres of historical fiction and non-fiction, but she also wrote travelogues, comic strips and detective and ghost stories.[5][6]

Life and career

Sen Gupta was born in Delhi. She held a master's degree in history. She began writing in college, working as a copywriter for advertising agencies.[6]

Some of her works include G

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