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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.

Awards and Shortlists
- 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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What’s the Point of Kiki?

The name of the book itself makes me chuckle. It makes one think of big philosophical questions like What’s the point of life? or Why are we here? And yet, there’s a simplicity to the question that I love–what’s the point of a pet that does not show you any love, that you cannot cuddle? […]

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When I started reading Trouble in the Tea Gardens by Mitali Perkins, I was struck by how similar several elements were to Tiger Boy. An intelligent small-town child capable of winning a scholarship to get a better education, a teacher with t
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Think Big! (hOle book) by Varsha Seshan
"Think Big by Varsha Seshan is the story of Geet, who wants to take part in the October Bazaar not only for the sake of it, but to win it all! But what happens when everyone around her makes fun of her ideas, ridicules her, and asks her to start small" Read more of this review »
Think Big! (hOle book) by Varsha Seshan
"Think Big! is a gentle, uplifting story about children who dare to dream, even when self-doubt creeps in. Through a simple school setting, the book shows how a small idea sparks hesitation, fear, and finally courage.

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"This book is a warm, clever nudge toward creativity, courage, and believing in one’s ideas even when skills seem to lag behind ambition. Geet’s journey, set against the backdrop of the October Bazaar, is paced just right—never rushed, never dragging." Read more of this review »
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Prabir's New Flute (Hook Books) by Asha Nehemiah
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Prabir's New Flute is a lovely, gentle story about a gifted boy, whose music is part of every happy event in Munshipara. When his flute breaks, however, Prabir realises that only half the gift is within him. The other half is in the magic of his flut ...more
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The Impossible Pet by Jane De Suza is such a fun book! I laughed out loud more than once as the hapless Tarun tries one thing after another to get a pet of his own-–whether his parents like it or not.

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I've been a fan of Green Humour, aka Rohan Chakravarty, for so long that I’ve been wanting to read Sea ice? Now you don’t! ever since it was published. It was as delightful as I expected! I found myself reading page after page, alternating between la ...more
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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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