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Book curator, Sangeeta Bhansali of the newly expanded Kahani Tree played host to the inaugural session of Society for children book writers and illustrators (SCBWI) in Mumbai.  For over two hours, Author and publisher, Regional advisor of SCBWI, Anushka Ravishankar and children’s author, Natasha Sharma shared their experiences and answered questions in an interactive session titled, ‘When an author meets a publisher.’  “Things have really changed a lot in the past ten years. It’s a good time for Indian writers,” said Anushka Ravishankar.  From the status of ebooks, the importance of having an analytical mind to work on manuscripts, foreign rights, literary agents, the difference between an illustrated book and a picture book, she shared nuggets of information for the benefit of authors. She also revealed the reasons why it is not possible for publishers to provide marketing support for every author on their list, the journey of a manuscript in a publishing house...

Should CISCE(Council for Indian school examination) encourage books of popular foreign and dead authors instead of promoting home grown children authors as a part of their syllabus?  (Reference article: http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com//Article.aspx?eid=31804&articlexml=Now-study-Amar-Chitra-Katha-Tintin-Potter-in-24112016009050# ) Kahani Takbak asked a few people for their views. Picture courtesy : www.pixabay.com Asha Narayanan,Principal, Lodha World School, Navi Mumbai : “The CISCE has always had the freedom to pick references from the wide variety of relevant and age appropriate material around us. Now it has gone one step further in spelling out a few of these. The idea is to stimulate the reader's imagination. The move is welcome. And since this variety is from their vocabulary of books, students will take to it like a fish to water.” Paro Anand, Author of upcoming book Two (Scholastic India ): I think it is a wonderful initiative to get bet...