SUDHA MURTY GRANDMA BAGS OF STORIES
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GRANDMA’S BAG OF STORIES
Sudha Murty was born in 1950 in Shiggaon in north Karnataka. She did her
MTech in computer science, and is now the chairperson of the Infosys
Foundation. A prolific writer in English and Kannada, she has written novels,
technical books, travelogues, collections of short stories and non-fictional
pieces, and four books for children. Her books have been translated into all
the major Indian languages. Sudha Murty was the recipient of the R.K.
Narayan Award for Literature and the Padma Shri in 2006, and the Attimabbe
Award from the government of Karnataka for excellence in Kannada literature
in 2011.
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....... they clamoured.
But Ajji shook her head. ‘If you eat only pickles and laddoos will you be
healthy? Stories are like that. You can’t spend all your time listening to
stories. Then it will be boring. Like the unending story that a king once had to
hear.’
‘I want a story! And that’s an order!’shouted King Prata……
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