Varsha Seshan

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Varsha Seshan is a writer of to-do lists, emails, and detailed notes to self. In between all that, she writes stories, mainly for children.

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- Winner - Crossword Book Award 2025
- Highlights Foundation Full Scholarship Awardee 2024
- Shortlisted for the AG-BLF Book Prize for Children's Fiction 2023
- Author of a Parag Honour Book 2022
- Shortlisted for the Neev Book Award 2021
- Finalist for the Singapore Book Award 2019
- First runner-up for the Scholastic Asian Book Award 2018
- Winner of the Juggernaut Travel Writing Contest 2018
- Winner of the Chanakya Award for Communicator of the Year (Literature) 2018
- Shortlisted for the Scholastic Asian Book Award 2016
- Second runner-up for the Parents and Kids Choice Awards 2014
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Varsha Seshan Probably because I was surrounded by books as a child. I loved books and the idea of creating them was thrilling!
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Maya and the Robot

What a charming middle-grade book! I stumbled upon Maya and the Robot completely by accident. I was looking for something by Maya Angelou, and this one showed up. It looked interesting, so I picked it up–and thoroughly enjoyed it! Maya and the Robot begins slowly. When I started reading it, I wondered if it would […]

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Maya and the Robot begins slowly. When I started reading it, I wondered if it would be a predictable story about a genius girl who finds a friend in a robot she creates because her best friends are now in another class.
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My Name Is Khadija is a humorous, enjoyable read. Mariyam Fatima’s words make Khadija come alive to us, and Isha Nagar’s illustrations are full of joy.

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The Race for Rugda by Lesley D. Biswas and Anupama Ajinkya Apte is a heartwarming story for young readers. In some ways, it’s an old-fashioned tale, one that helps us believe goodness and kindness will be rewarded. Yet, it conveys this message in the ...more
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I opened Song of the Asunam and spent several minutes just gazing at the end papers. Six-eyed lions with trunks and tusks. Striped hyenas with manes. Tiny elephants as high as grass. Snakes with legs. Each of the mythical beasts featured there is a w ...more
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The Piano is a lovely graphic novel, a sweeping story that takes us from 1912 to 2012 in just a few pages. I like how sparsely it is told, allowing us to ride through the story, tasting its beauty, and rejoicing in the relationships forged.

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What a charming book! Brachio by Venkataraghavan and Ananya Broker Parekh is a visual treat, one that touches the reader with sweetness and whimsy.

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What a powerful, important book! Detailed, eye-opening and hard-hitting, it is a pacy, gripping read that makes the reader stop and think.

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Alan             Moore
“Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket.”
Alan Moore

C.S. Lewis
“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”
C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

J.K. Rowling
“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”
J.K Rowling

Leonard Cohen
“even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.”
Leonard Cohen

Michael Morpurgo
“Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.”
Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful

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