It's 1942 in Tanjore, and Thambi wants to know more about the Quit India movement. Encouraged by his father, he visits the library regularly to scour the newspapers. But there's precious little in the papers about anything except the war raging in Europe. Thambi wants to know about Gandhiji and the other freedom fighters! Not Hitler and the Japanese!Yet, he knows that the war is frightening too. In fact, his new friend Sumit has moved to Tanjore from faraway Bengal because of the threat of a Japanese attack. Is Sumit right? Are the Japanese all set to attack Thanjavur too?Even with everything happening all around Thambi, Hitler, the British and the Japanese are only one small part of his world. Like all the other books in the Songs of Freedom series, The Train to Tanjore beautifully balances Thambi's individual struggles with the larger socio-political picture. More often than … [Read more...]