Yen Nilaththai Naan Kaappaattruvaen
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Mati pesters her grandmother and father for her own plot of land. When she does get it, she works hard. And then she hears that a company wants to make a coal mine in their village – the enormous black pit that will eat up all their lands, like it has in the next village… As always, Rinchin powers her questions through irresistible storytelling. The little girl’s anxiety about losing her land to “a monster machine” cuts close to the heart as it takes head-on an issue that is ravaging tribal Chhattisgarh, where this story is set, and every other place where there is ‘development’ at a cost.
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Mati pesters her grandmother and father for her own plot of land. When she does get it, she works hard. And then she hears that a company wants to make a coal mine in their village – the enormous black pit that will eat up all their lands, like it has in the next village… As always, Rinchin powers her questions through irresistible storytelling. The little girl’s anxiety about losing her land to “a monster machine” cuts close to the heart as it takes head-on an issue that is ravaging tribal Chhattisgarh, where this story is set, and every other place where there is ‘development’ at a cost.
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Samina Mishra
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Chinna Chilaka
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- Author Name:
Gayathri Bashi
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- Author Name:
Achintyarup Ray
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- Author Name:
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- Author Name:
Nivedha Ganesh +1
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- Author Name:
Paridhi Didwania
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- Author Name:
Shamim Padamsee
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Pani Utra Teen Par
- Author Name:
Pramod Pathak +1
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- Description: प्रमोद पाठक का यह कविता संग्रह पढ़ने और सुनाने में मजेदार है। इसकी छंद सहज है. भाषा चीनी की तरह पारदर्शी होती है। इसे दो बार पढ़ें और आप इसे सीख लेंगे। पानी उतरा टीन पर फिर कूड़ा ज़मीन पर पत्ती और फूल पर खूब खूब झूल कर इन लोरी जैसी कविताओं को नीलेश गेहलोत ने खूबसूरती से चित्रित किया है। Age group 6-8 years
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- Author Name:
Bhavna Jain Bhuta
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- Author Name:
Shashi Sablok +1
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