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Varsha Seshan

Storytelling!

September 30, 2013 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

The difference between storytelling and drama is that the audience actually exists. The actor engages with the audience, can hear the audience, see the audience and speak to the audience. And what a wonderful experience my first storytelling experience was! Burd Ellen makes the mistake of going widdershins; Childe Rowland rescues her. We don’t have […]

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Day Three – Reading is Fun!

September 29, 2013 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I always tremble when I talk about my book. But somehow, today was just perfect. For once, I felt that the children simply loved the story and were still eager for more! Today was a grand day. I bit my lip controlling my laughter as a child read a little excerpt he had written about […]

Filed Under: Books, Children, Workshops, Writing Tagged With: British Library, reading, story, story-catcher

Working, Working, Workshop!

September 26, 2013 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Reading is Fun! Day One Day Two And now, I’m excited about the next one, coming soon …

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13 registrations done!

September 7, 2013 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Thirteen children will be part of my reading workshop that starts on Sunday! Seven seats left . . .

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Reading Workshop

September 6, 2013 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I spoke to Ms Sugandhi from the British Library last Sunday, and she said that 11 children had already registered! There are just 20 seats in all; now is the time!

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Available worldwide!

August 29, 2013 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Just discovered that The Story-Catcher is not available just in India and the US! It’s available in the UK too! (And perhaps elsewhere in the world that I have not discovered yet!)

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Stories on a Postcard Challenge

August 5, 2013 by Varsha Seshan 1 Comment

I found this such a charming idea that I felt compelled to share it! I have so many memories of postcards! My father used to send postcards like this to me when I was on vacation in Bangalore with my grandparents. Somehow, I remember one postcard very clearly. ‘Did you hear the one about the […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: competition, postcard, story

Surprise Interview

July 24, 2013 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I never have call waiting turned on. Yesterday, somehow I did. An unknown number was calling me as I spoke to a very dear friend – a landline number. At first, I ignored it. I got another call. I was puzzled. And another. So I took it. “Varsha Seshan!” said the voice at the other […]

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I can’t quite believe this . . .

July 12, 2013 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

The Story-Catcher has been long listed for the Crossword Book Awards! So what if the long list is loooong? If it needs votes, I’m banking on lots of people!

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Book-Reading at Crossword, Mulund!

May 19, 2013 by Varsha Seshan 3 Comments

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The Dictionary at School

March 31, 2013 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

  The portion for the exams has been completed; students are fed up with revision. So, a colleague of mine decided to do something different – she read out a story from The Story-Catcher. I was thrilled! This reading went one step further than ‘I loved your story’ and ‘nice story’ and ‘I like the story […]

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More Readers?

March 15, 2013 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I, Varsha Seshan, author of The Story-Catcher and English teacher at your school… … donated two books to Vishwashanti Gurukul library. One for the primary school library and one for the whole school. I also spoke to the principal about the way I’ve done readings in the past at St. Mary’s, and she seemed interested. At the […]

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Will I ever call it junk?

February 28, 2013 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

How do teachers throw away cards they receive? The children I read to gave me so many cards. Some were beautiful; some were thoughtful; some were sweet. How can I throw any away? Just a sample of those gems…                    THANK-YOU FOR SHARING SO MANY THINGS I LOVED […]

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The Dame who Hated Plants

February 27, 2013 by Varsha Seshan 2 Comments

Another original story by seven-year-old Varsha. This one won the first prize in a story-writing competition and was published on my mother’s birthday in 1994. The word ‘dame’, for those who have not read Enid Blyton, meant nothing to me except ‘woman’ (often magical/ evil). I wonder if this story could be psycho-analysed. There was […]

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Book-Reading – A Different One

February 21, 2013 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

An acquaintance who is part of the Teach for India programme asked whether I would be willing to come to a small government school in Chandannagar and talk about my book, about writing and about dance. I was tremendously excited by the prospect, and agreed immediately. When I got there, though,  I realised how different […]

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The Circus Boy

February 7, 2013 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I did two more book-readings yesterday – The Circus Boy and The Old Yellow Scooter. The reactions were completely different! Children never stop surprising me. The first reading (The Dictionary) was wonderful – I got questions about reading, writing, publishing, drawing… The second reading (Dreams) was strange – I wondered whether the girls understood the story at […]

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Why I Write for Children

February 5, 2013 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

My first reading at St. Mary’s school yesterday told me, yet again, why I love writing for children. The number of questions they asked me and the way they interacted with me for a whole hour was simply wonderful. Writing, editing, publishing, marketing, illustrating and designing – they had questions about all these things. They […]

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Thank you, Santa!

January 9, 2013 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Yesterday, I went to my old school to meet my librarian and give her a copy of The Story-Catcher. She still had the book in her hand about half an hour later when children from class III were lining up to go into the library. One excited girl saw the book and exclaimed, “That’s The Story-Catcher, isn’t […]

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