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Varsha Seshan

Friends Behind Walls

July 7, 2025 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Inu and Putti are not allowed to play with each other. But what can they possibly do when everyone else in Shanti Park seems to have been born at the age of 30? They have no one to play with except each other! Soon they discover that they actually like each other and want to […]

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Kittu’s Very Mad Day

September 7, 2023 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I remember meeting Harshikaa Udasi, author of Kittu’s Terrible Horrible No Good Very Mad Day at a lit fest several years ago. I had read her book already, but unfortunately, I had a Kindle edition, so I couldn’t go up to her and get my copy signed. I told her that, and then, casually, a […]

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Online Reading Programme – Second Edition!

January 13, 2021 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Registrations are now closed for this reading programme. I was just about halfway through my first reading programme when parents started reaching out to me to check if there will be other batches. Even when I launched the first one, I knew I would continue the programme if enough people expressed interest. And so, here […]

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Kittu’s Very Mad Day

July 11, 2018 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Packed with more characters than I could count, reading Kittu’s Terrible Horrible No Good Very Mad Day is a crazy experience. Kittu’s family is the most chaotic one in the world – and the description of the entire family ordering a meal made me chuckle because it is absolutely en pointe. I remember being embarrassed, nearly mortified, […]

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