How I Taught My Grandmother to Read: And Other Stories

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The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.How I taught my grandmother to read and other stories’ seems like a pretty childish title for a book. If the author had cut down on the self glorification and the self appraisal on every second page, this book.

One of the simple pleasures of the author s grandmother was listening to her granddaughter narrate the story of Kashi Yatre, a lady who sacrificed her life s savings to help out the needy, appearing in the weekly magazine Karmaveera. How I Taught my Grandmother to Read and Other Stories” is her first book for children and is a collection of 24 short stories. It has the stories of helpful strangers as well as the strangers who betrayed many people; incidences about trust, realizing dreams, perseverance, honesty and hard-work.It urges the reader to reconnect with his moral fiber through its stories on honesty, friendship, and patriotism. There are many gripping stories about Sudha Murty's students, children as well as stories across India. A very delicate and beautifully written book, you feel how honest and truthful it is, and that it comes from the heart of the author.

They contain moral values and real-life experiences blended by Sudha Murty to form a great short story collection. Some of the other titles present in this collection include Abdul Kalam, The Red Rice Granary, Heart of Gold, The Rainy Day, Doing What You Like is Freedom, The Secret, and The Story of Two Doctors. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).This story book is showcasing the pure and warm relationship between a grandmother and her granddaughter. Baffling at first, the experience of living and coming through this strange request changed the child s mind forever. The account of how her mother's advice to save money came in handy when she wanted to help her husband start a software company, and the heart-warming tale of the promise she made-and fulfilled-to her grandfather, to ensure that her little village library would always be well supplied with books.

While I wouldn't recommend them to someone who prefers more polished writing, I certainly can't deny that her voice strikes a chord inside my own middle class, ambitious self. The laughter in this book will keep you entertained, and the author's life teachings are an added bonus. Her books have been translated into all the major Indian languages and have sold over three lakh copies around the country.After the author comes back from a week-long vacation, she finds her grandmother in tears because she couldn t read her favourite stories and is saddened that she didn t go to school. As a bright woman from a simple middle class family with a liberal upbringing, Sudha Murthy reminds one of a school teacher and her stories have an instructive tone to them. I felt a strong underlying ubiquitous humble bragging across the book regarding herself or her family which appeared to be somewhat compulsive, and sadly that diminished my opinion considerably. And they are just so meaningful and heart touching that I was misty eyed from the beginning to the end. But I prefer to read it slower as each of the stories in this book have a lot of meaning and depth to it.