Shanta Rameshwar Rao: 6 books

The story of Chathu, The Elephant Boy was first written and published in Malayalam. The original story was called 'Anakkaran', which means, literally, "elephant man" or mahout. It was written Karoor Nilakanta Pillai and was quite short. Shanta Rameshwar Rao found the story had immense potential for a...

Shanta Rameshwar Rao's Mahabharata tells the central story of India's great Sanskrit epic, one of the oldest works of literature in the world

A gripping story of the Harijan community of a typical temple-town in Southern India. It reveals the anguish of a family which hopes that the new laws will bring a new life for them. Shanta Rameshwar Raos taut and simple style, her sympathy and integrity enables her to tell a gripping, heartrending and totally credible tale in just a few pages

Composed over three thousand years ago, the Mahabharata is one of Indias greatest epics. In this version, the author, in retelling the main narrative, retains the grandeur and flavour of the epic. The colour plates and black and white drawings by the Indian painter Badri Narayan add a new, rich, spectacular dimension to the classic.

The classic stories in this choice selection are a few of the best known ones from the living traditions of Indian mythology. Evocatively and beautifully retold, these stories are enhanced and enriched in symbolic meaning and iconography by the magnificent colour, and black and white illustrations by painter Badri Narayan.

This is a collection of charmingly told tales involving animals. The themes are universal—the triumph of the seemingly weak over the mighty, the possibility of magic in daily life, etc. The language is simple but strongly evocative of both the physical and the emotional.