Home sweet Home

For a long, long time Shipra Shukla’s only claim to fame was her hair which reached her knees and she was a great favourite with little girls who aspired to be like her. Mothers’ would persuade these little girls to eat their spinach/broccoli/veggies, telling them that it would help them to grow their hair long like Shipra Aunty. But one day, there was flash of insight that made Shipra Aunty realise that all the nourishment was only going to her hair and unlike Samson, she would have to cut her hair if she wanted to become strong. So she cut her hair and Lo! out came her pen and she started writing and writing and writing.

 Melody is the first in the series of her BIG BOOK named the Collected tails of Jungle Land. It is the story of a little cuckoo bird who is abandoned by her mother in the homely mother crow’s nest. Maggie Hatchery, the mother crow, hones Melody’s talents along with that of her four crow children, Do-ray, Me-Far, So-La and Ti-Doo under the able tutelage of the frog with the voice, Monsieur Tar-tar. Melody’s journey and the shenanigans of the jungle folk will take the children (and adults) on a fun ride. 

On this journey she hopes to give the children something to focus on besides long  hair and all the trappings of external beauty or other brain dead occupations. She hopes to inspire them to create, to imagine and above all, to laugh. In the process she hopes some good values and principles will find their way into their world.