Bøger af Sudha Murty

THROUGH GRANDMA’S BAG OF STORIES, SUDHA MURTY RECREATES THE TRADITIONAL WAY OF STORYTELLING, WHERE KIDS SIT AROUND A GRANDPARENT, WHILE GETTING MESMERISED BY ONE INTERESTING TALE AFTER ANOTHER. AS THE BOOK STARTS, THE SETTING IS THAT OF SUMMER, AND A FEW CHILDREN GO ON A HOLIDAY TO THEIR GRANDPARENTS’ HOME IN SHIGGAON, KARNATAKA. THEY PROCEED TO DO WHAT CHILDREN DO BEST FIND SOMEONE TO PLAY WITH. THEY BEFRIEND THE KIDS NEXT DOOR, AND HAVE LOADS OF FUN WITH THEM. FROM TAKING A FUN PICNIC TO VISITING THE WEEKLY MARKET, THEY ENJOY EVERY MINUTE OF THEIR VACATION. BUT THEIR FAVORITE THING TO DO IS LISTEN TO THEIR GRANDMOTHER’S FANTASTIC STORIES. GRANDMA’S BAG OF STORIES CONTAINS THE STORIES THAT THE GRANDMOTHER NARRATES TO ENTERTAIN THE SEVEN YOUNG CHILDREN. THE TALES ARE MAGICAL, AND REPLETE WITH CAPTIVATING CHARACTERS. MORAL LESSONS ARE SUBTLY BLENDED IN WITH THE TALES TO IMPRESS THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT IS WRONG.THE ILLUSTRATIONS BY PRIYA KURIAN MAKE THE BOOK MORE INTERESTING AND KEEP THE YOUNG READERS ENGROSSED. THE STORIES FEATURE SEVERAL CHARACTERS LIKE A QUEEN WHO DISCOVERS SILK, A PRINCESS WHO IS TURNED INTO AN ONION, A LAZY MAN, AN ANGRY BEAR, CHEATS AND KINGS, AND MICE AND MONKEYS. THE STORIES ARE BASED ON THE AUTHOR’S OWN CHILDHOOD IN SHIGGAON, AND THE STORIES THAT SHE HEARD FROM HER GRANDMOTHER.

LIFE OF A HUMAN BEING, SO VERY COMPLICATED, A VERY COMPLEX PROCESS INVOLVING VARIOUS RELATIONSHIPS, FEELINGS, EMOTIONS AND EVENTS, NEVER IMAGINED BEFORE. SOME OF THE RELATIONS CREATE HARDLY ANY BONDING BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE WHILE SOME WEAVE TOGETHER FOREVER, AT THE BASE OF THE HEART. SOMETIMES, YOU GET TO KNOW SOMEBODY BETTER AFTER MANY YEARS AND THEN.... THIS BOOK IS BASED ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF A FATHER AND HIS TWO CHILDREN. THE FATHER WHO HAS FALLEN A VICTIM IN THE HANDS OF DESTINY; THE SON WHO HAS FULFILLED HIS DUTY OF BEING A SON BY OFFERING HIMSELF NOT SAYING ANYTHING, NOT COMPLAINING ABOUT ANYTHING, AND THE DAUGHTER WHO HELPS TO ACHIEVE THE SET TARGET, NOT BACKING AT ANY POINT. SUDHA MURTI`S EMOTIONAL, THOUGHTFUL WRITING WITH A NEW DIMENSION....

EVERY TIME, SHE SENT HIM A LETTER, SHE SENT A SMALL FLOWER OF `BAKUL` FOR HIM, WITHOUT FAIL. HER LETTER ALWAYS BROUGHT BACK SOME SPECIAL MEMORIES FOR SHRIDHAR. HE USED TO GET LOST IN THE MEMORIES WITH THE SMALL FLOWER IN HIS HAND. THE FLOWER REPRESENTED HER. HER MILD MANNERS, HER SIMPLICITY, THE FRAGRANCE AROUND HER, AND THE CHASTITY IN HER EYES ALONG WITH THE LOVE EVERY SINGLE TENDER THING WAS PRESENT IN THE FLOWER. HER PERSONALITY WAS DEVOID OF EGO. HE HAD COLLECTED EACH FLOWER FROM HER LETTER. HE HAD STORED ALL THOSE FLOWERS IN A SMALL BAG. EVERY DAY, HE KEPT THE BAG BENEATH HIS PILLOW. EVERY LETTER BROUGHT A NEW HOPE FOR HIM, SAYING THAT THE FLOWER WILL BE A LIFELONG PARTNER. SUDHA MURTHY, HAS PICTURED THIS VERY SENSITIVELY.

SUDHA MURTHY IS FROM THE NORTH KARNATAKA. PEOPLE HERE HAVE A TYPICAL PERSONALITY. THEY ALL CARRY THE CULTURE WITHIN THEMSELVES. ALL THE STORIES COLLECTED HERE RESEMBLE THE JASMINE GARLAND, EACH FLOWER CARRYING THE FRAGRANCE AND INTERWOVEN IN THE KARNATAKI THREAD. THE TENDEREST PART OF THE AUTHOR`S MIND COMES INTO LIGHT THROUGH THE WAY SHE HAS PICTURED THE UNCOMMON ASPECTS OF THE COMMON PEOPLE. SHE HAS ALSO BATHED IT IN LIGHT HUMOUR.

THIS IS A STORY BOOK WRITTEN BY SUDHA MURTI ESPECIALLY FOR THE CHILDREN. THIS BOOK IS A COMBINATION OF SOME INDIAN AND SOME FOREIGN STORIES AND YET SOME STORIES ARE A RESULT OF SUDHA MURTI`S OWN IMAGINATION. HERE THE CUNNING FOX MEETS US IN THE FORM OF A BENEVOLENT ROLE. YOU WILL ALSO MEET THE COW, MONKEY AND THE SCARECROW WHO WERE ALL FAVOURED BY THE GRANDFATHER AND WHO STILL ARE STILL GRATEFUL FOR THAT. WE WILL ALSO COME ACROSS MANY WOMEN WHO ARE NOT SCARED OF ANY CALAMITIES. ON THE CONTRARY, WE WILL FIND THEM COOL AND MAINTAINING THEIR CALMNESS THROUGH IT. YOU WILL MEET THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE GAINING LOTS OF MONEY BUT ARE USING THAT TO HELP THE NEEDY AND WHO THEMSELVES ARE STILL RELYING ON THEIR HARD WORK. THESE STORIES WILL SURELY TAKE YOU TO A DIFFERENT WORLD.

IT IS THROUGH DIFFERENT STORIES THAT ALL SORT OF PEOPLE COME TO MEET US, PEOPLE WHOM WE WON`T BE MEETING OTHERWISE IN OUR LIFE. THESE ARE RIGHT FROM THE KINGS AND QUEENS, PRINCES AND PRINCESSES, THEIR PALACES, THE MISERS, THE POOREST OF ALL, THE WISEST OF ALL, THE WITTIEST OF ALL, THE STUPIDEST OF ALL, MYSTERIOUS PEOPLE TO THE MAJESTIC EXPERIENCES. IN ONE STORY WE MEET A VERY INTELLIGENT PRINCESS WHO WANTS A MORE INTELLIGENT HUSBAND, SO SHE ALLOWS THE EAGER WOULD BE HUSBANDS TO ASK HER 9 QUESTIONS EACH, AT THE END SHE MEETS SOMEONE WHO IS DASHING AND MORE INTELLIGENT THAN HER. IN ANOTHER STORY, AN ORPHAN CHILD PUNISHES HIS WICKED UNCLE; IN ONE STORY A DRUM HELPS THE OLD COUPLE TO COME OUT OF A DISASTER. SOME OF THESE STORIES WERE TOLD TO SUDHA MURTHY, BY HER GRANDPARENTS WHEN SHE HERSELF WAS A KID, SOME OF THE STORIES WERE HEARD DURING HER VOYAGES AROUND THE WORLD AND SOME OF THE STORIES ARE THE RESULT OF HER INNOVATIVE MIND. FOR AGES, ALL THESE STORIES WERE LINGERING IN HER MIND. SHE HAD BEEN TELLING THEM TO ALL THE YOUNG MINDS WHO HAD COME IN HER LIFE. THIS IS FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT SHE HAS PENNED THEM DOWN AND MADE THEM AVAILABLE TO ALL.

A BENCH, A TEMPLE, A VILLAGE, PEOPLE LIKE YOU OR ME AND A BLIND OLD MAN-THESE ARE SOME OF THE SET UPS IN MRS. SUDHA MURTY`S COMPILATION OF SHORT STORIES FROM PEOPLE ACROSS INDIA. THE OLD MAN AND HIS GOD: DISCOVERING THE SPIRIT OF INDIA IS A COLLECTION OF INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTS GATHERED BY THE WRITER FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE THEIR OWN STORIES TO TELL. THE STORIES ARE SUCH THAT THEY ARE VERY SIMPLE TO UNDERSTAND AND WRITTEN IN A SIMPLE WAY. THEY DESCRIBE THE INCIDENTS THAT ARE RECORDED BY MRS. MURTY DURING HER JOURNEY, WHICH SHE SUBSEQUENTLY SUMMARIZED IN HER EASY TO READ BOOK. HER STORIES ARE A PART OF THE VERY SOUL OF HUMAN BEINGS. FOR INSTANCE, THERE IS ONE ABOUT HOW AN OLD BLIND MAN GAVE HER SHELTER IN A STORM WHEN THERE WAS NOWHERE ELSE TO GO. ANOTHER STORY IS ABOUT HOW BROTHERS TURNED AWAY FROM EACH OTHER WHEN SOMEWHERE ELSE TWO PEOPLE, WHO WERE NOT EVEN RELATED BECAME CLOSER THAN BROTHERS. THERE ARE ALSO STORIES OF YOUNG PEOPLE TRYING TO MAKE A CAREER FOR THEMSELVES AND ALSO ABOUT THE OPPRESSION OF WOMEN WHO STRUGGLE FOR THEIR RIGHTS. MANY DIFFERENT LIVES TOUCHED THE HEART OF MRS. SUDHA MURTY AND ENTITLED HER TO WRITE THE OLD MAN AND HIS GOD. MRS. MURTY HAS EXPLORED THE SPIRIT OF INDIA WITH HER SET OF SHORT STORIES. THE SPIRIT OF INDIA IS IN THE PEOPLE, THEIR LIVES AND THEIR STORIES WHICH CAN IMPACT THE WAY OF THE WORLD. THE OLD MAN AND HIS GOD: DISCOVERING THE SPIRIT OF INDIA WAS PUBLISHED BY PENGUIN IN 2006. IT IS AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK EDITIONS.

THIS COUNTRY IS WEIRD. IT IS A HUGE AND COLOURFUL COBWEB. THERE ARE JOBS HERE, MACHINES HERE, MECHANISMS HERE, HAPPINESS, TREASURES, DOLLARS, YOU WILL FIND EVERYTHING HERE. OUR PEOPLE FALL PREY TO THE LUXURY. BUT ONCE THEY REACH HERE, THEY ARE UNABLE TO TURN BACK. OUR COUNTRY ALSO HAS NOTHING TO CALL THEM BACK. OUR COUNTRY HAS THOUSANDS OF WINDOWS TO GO OUT, BUT NOT SINGLE DOOR TO CALL THEM BACK THROUGH, TO TAKE THEM IN. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO IMAGINE THE LIFE THERE. ARE THOSE PEOPLE HAPPY WHO END UP BUYING ONLY IN SALES AND WHO KEEP ON MULTIPLYING THE DOLLAR WITH THE CURRENT RATE OF RUPEE? THERE THEY EARN THOUSAND DOLLARS AND WORK IN VERY ORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES, BUT THEY PRETEND TO EARN 40 THOUSANDS AND TRY TO PROTECT THEIR VANITY. WE GO OVER THERE TO EARN DOLLARS, FOR THAT WE LEAVE EVERYTHING THAT WE ARE A PART OF, OUR PEOPLE, OUR RELATIVES, OUR ORIGIN, WE FACE THE HARSH WEATHER THERE BUT WE NEVER BECOME A PART OF THEIR LIFE. NONE OF THE INDIANS UNDERSTAND HOW COSTLY THIS DOLLAR IS FOR US. WE ARE CAUGHT UP IN THE MARSHY BUSINESS OF DOLLARS. THERE WE GET A MUCH BETTER JOB THAN WE DESERVE. THERE IS NO POLITICS OF LANGUAGE, CASTE ETC. WE CAN WORK IN A HAPPY ENVIRONMENT WITH A CONTENTED MIND. IF I LEAVE EVERYTHING AND COME BACK THEN I WILL BE VERY DEPRESSED.

SUDHA MURTHY, A PROFESSOR, A SOCIAL WORKER AND BEST OF ALL AN AUTHOR WITH THE MOST INNOVATIVE AND SKILLFUL MIND. HER WRITING IS BASED ON TRUTH, AND PRESENTED IN A WONDERFUL MODE, TOUCHING US, GIVING US IMMENSE PLEASURE. WE OFTEN COME ACROSS UNEXPECTED SITUATIONS, SAY FOR EXAMPLE YOUR GRANNY WISHES TO OVERCOME HER ILLITERACY WITH YOUR HELP, OR MAY BE THE PRESIDENT OF INDIA WISH YOUR COMPANY WHILE TRAVELLING, OR YOUR TEACHER ALL OF A SUDDEN DECIDES TO GIVE YOU MORE MARKS THAN YOU DESERVE. WHAT WILL YOU DO IN THESE SITUATIONS? WHILE READING SUDHA TAI`S STORIES YOU WILL COME ACROSS THE SOLUTIONS FOR THESE ASTONISHING SITUATIONS. THIS BOOK IS A COLLECTION OF STORIES. ONE STORY HAS A NAUGHTY STUDENT AND BELIEVE ME, HIS NAUGHTINESS WILL KEEP YOU TOTALLY ABSORBED. THE OTHER STORY TELLS US ABOUT A WIFE WHO SAVES EVERY SINGLE PENNY FROM HER HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES WITH JUST ONE DREAM, HER HUSBAND`S DREAM OF SETTING UP A NEW BUSINESS. FOR THE AUTHOR, THIS BRINGS BACK HER MOTHER`S MEMORIES AND HER ADVICE. THE AUTHOR HAS ALSO WRITTEN ABOUT HER GRANDPA AND THE PROMISE THAT SHE HAD MADE TO HIM FOR DONATING BOOKS TO THE LIBRARY IN HER VILLAGE. ALL THESE STORIES HAVE FRESHNESS, THEY ARE HEALTHY AND THEY MAKE US SMILE. EACH AND EVERY STORY IMPARTS AN IMPORTANT LESSON, HOW TO ACCOMPLISH OUR GOALS WHICH HAVE TOUCHED OUR SOUL, WHICH WE FIND VERY LOGICAL, WHICH ARE BASED ON OUR PRINCIPLES.

SHE WAS A VERY BEAUTIFUL LADY, BUT WAS BORN TO A POOR SCHOOL MASTER. HE WAS A VERY HANDSOME DOCTOR, FROM A VERY RICH AND NOBLE FAMILY. HE MARRIED HER AGAINST EVERYONE`S WISH. BUT WITHIN A FEW MONTHS AFTER MARRIAGE SHE GOT WHITE SPOTS ON HER BODY, LEUKODERMA. EVERYONE GOT SCARED OF HER UGLINESS AND THEY THREW HER OUT OF THE HOUSE, THEY SENT HER BACK TO HER PARENT`S HOUSE, AS IF SHE WAS A PIECE OF GARBAGE. SHE BUILT UP HER OWN UNIVERSE, BUT HE WAS CURSING HIMSELF. WHAT IF HE HAD SUFFERED WITH THE SAME DISEASE? WOULD SHE HAVE DISCARDED HIM LIKE A PIECE OF GARBAGE? WHAT CAN BE THE END OF SUCH STORIES? SUDHA MURTHY HAS GIVEN AN INSIGHT TO A SIMPLE WOMAN FROM A TRADITIONAL FAMILY. THE WOMAN IS SHATTERED WITH THE DISEASE BUT YET SHE COMES OUT OF IT. SHE SHAPES HER LIFE WELL. THE NOVEL HAS FOUND SOME DEPTH BECAUSE OF THE AUTHOR`S MATURED THOUGHTS AND HER ATTEMPTS TO CORRELATE WITH THE MODERN LIFE. THIS NOVEL HAS BEEN TRANSLATED IN MANY OF THE INDIAN LANGUAGES. WE ARE SURE THAT THIS MARATHI TRANSLATION WILL BE ABLE TO TOUCH THE HEARTS AND MAKE THEM THINK OVER.

What secrets lurk in a family's past--and how important are they in the here and now? Sudha Murty's new book comprises two novellas that explore two quests by two different men--both for mothers they never knew they had. Venkatesh, a bank manager, stumbles upon his lookalike one fine day. When he probes further, he discovers his father's hidden past, which includes an abandoned wife and child. Ventakesh is determined to make amends to his impoverished stepmother--but how can he repay his father's debt? Mukesh, a young man, is shocked to realize after his father's death that he was actually adopted. He sets out to find his biological mother, but the deeper he delves, the more confused he is about where his loyalties should lie: with the mother who gave birth to him, or with the mother who brought him up. The Mother I Never Knew is a poignant, dramatic book that reaches deep into the human heart to reveal what we really feel about those closest to us.

What would you do if a bird with golden wings alighted on your terrace and offered you fabulous riches? A poor little girl is rewarded with lovely gifts when she takes pity on a hungry bird and feeds it all the rice she has, but what happens when the girl's greedy, nosy neighbour hears the story and tries to get bigger and better gifts for herself? Why did the once sweet sea water turn salty? How did it happen that the learned teacher forgot all his lessons and had to be helped out by the school cook? And what did the king do so that the people of his kingdom did not come to know that he has horrible donkey ears hidden under his turban? Sudha Murty's new, enchanting collection of stories bubbles over with fun. Delightful colour illustrations bring to life tales of magical creatures, princesses and kings, ordinary witty men and women in a book that will bring hours of joy to readers young and old.

Who can resist a good story, especially when it's being told by Grandma? From her bag emerges tales of kings and cheats, monkeys and mice, bears and gods. Here comes the bear who ate some really bad dessert and got very angry; a lazy man who would not put out a fire till it reached his beard; a princess who got turned into an onion; a queen who discovered silk, and many more weird and wonderful people and animals. Grandma tells the stories over long summer days and nights, as seven children enjoy life in her little town. The stories entertain, educate and provide hours of enjoyment to them. So come, why don't you too join in the fun?