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Varsha Seshan

My Year in Writing: 2021

January 16, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

The year 2020 was such a boost to me as a writer! With a poem published by OUP, a picture book, a chapter book, a middle-grade book and a collection of short stories, how could 2021 even hope to compete? Even so, with two publications, an award shortlist, a book going into reprint and tons of […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: Chapter Book, How Big Is a Whale Shark, Karadi Tales, Neev Book Award 2021, Picture Book, Pratham Books, Storyweaver, The Best Idea of All, The Clockwalas Clues

What I’ve Been Reading on StoryWeaver

June 6, 2021 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Every so often, I write about books I’ve read on StoryWeaver that have left an impression on me in one way or another. Free books are precious! And over 30,000 free books? Priceless! Here are a few I read and loved recently. In the past, most of the books I’ve read have been Level 1 […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: A Dog Called Shoo, Goplu's Train Ride, I Want to Ride a Motorbike, On Mondays I Want to Hide, picture books, Pratham Books, reading, review, Storyweaver, Sweet Memories of Gutar Goo, The Birthday Cake, You Won't Believe Me

My Year in Writing – 2020

January 9, 2021 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I’m beginning to write this post on a day when I received a miserable royalty report for one of my books for the year 2019-20. Yet, the year 2020 has been all kinds of wonderful in terms of publishing for me. So many of my projects have seen light of day, though they have suffered […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: Chapter Book, Dragonflies Jigsaws and Seashells, Duckbill, How I Feel, Middle-Grade Fiction, Oxford University Press, Penguin Random House, poetry, Pratham Books, Scholastic, Sisters at New Dawn, The Clockwalas Clues, Young Zubaan

Bangalore 2020

January 28, 2020 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Bangalore is probably among my favourite cities in the world. I love the weather, I love the trees (even though so many have been cut), and most of all, I love the mood of the city. As a child, I used to spend every summer there, at my grandparents’. Now, I continue to go there […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Bangalore, Bengaluru, Bharatanatyam, Champaca, Lightroom Bookstore, performance, Pratham Books, Today I Am

A Theme-Based Reading Programme

December 15, 2019 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

A couple of months ago, I wrote a blog post for StoryWeaver about a training programme I have been conducting for the last three years for librarians in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai, and the ways in which I use StoryWeaver and Pratham Books for the reading programme they implement in schools. I have grown so […]

Filed Under: Workshops Tagged With: A Cloud of Trash, D-Mart CSR, Pratham Books, reading, reading programme, Storyweaver

Today I Am … A Writer!

August 28, 2018 by Varsha Seshan 2 Comments

The worst thing about being a writer is not writer’s block. Not by a long stretch. The worst thing is all the waiting. Waiting for people to respond. Waiting for a book to be ready. Waiting for a book to hit the market. Every time I get an email – even a rejection – there […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Mango Books, Middle Grade Book, Picture Book, Pratham Books, Scholastic Asian Book Award, Storyweaver, The Prophecy of Rasphora, Today I Am