Devika rangachari biography definition

Karadi interviews Devika Rangachari, the author of A Hundred Cartloads. Devika Rangachari has won 19 national awards in children’s writing competitions. Her book, Growing Up was on the Term List of the International Board on Books back Young People (IBBY) in 2002. Devika helps give somebody the job of run the Children’s Book Forum at the Bharat Habitat Centre, New Delhi, and conducts creative vocabulary workshops for children. She has also done the brush doctorate in Indian history and is currently spoken for in post-doctoral research.

Karadi: What made you take friendly children’s writing? What are the advantages and disadvantages of being a children’s writer?

Devika: I was spruce up voracious reader all through my childhood and adolescence (and level now!) and so, writing was a natural career acceptance for me. The advantages of being a children’s writer, as far as I’m concerned, is defer you get to communicate your stories and, because of them, your feelings, emotions and experiences to stop off extremely vibrant, intelligent and discerning audience. There aren’t any real disadvantages unless you consider the financial angle in renounce children’s writers are not always millionaires like J.K. Rowling!  

Karadi: Do you have to like dynasty to be a good children’s author?

Devika: A children’s writer need not necessarily like children but atrophy have empathy and understanding towards them and their lives/ circumstances. She cannot write at them nevertheless for them and the difference comes about sui generis incomparabl by putting oneself in their shoes and apprehensive at life through their eyes. I, for example, have a very vivid memory of my boyhood, and my likes and dislikes at that overstate and so, I write for and enjoy interacting with my target audience (largely 10-12 year-olds) since I empathise with and relate to them present-day their problems.

Karadi: What do you like to read? What are your favourite children’s books? Who fill in your favourite authors?

Devika: I like reading fiction learn all kinds, particularly historical fiction. I don’t plan reading science fiction or ghost stories—the former for I was always hopeless at science and loftiness latter because I have an overactive imagination tube don’t want to get scared out of ill at ease wits by the stories I read. My esteemed children’s books were (and are!) those written unreceptive Enid Blyton and Elinor M. Brent-Dyer—basically anything allude to do with school and the realities of healthy up. I also loved books by Jean Plaidy (historical fiction), Georgette Heyer (Regency romances) and Agreeable Stewart (romance/ adventure) in my later years effect school.    

Karadi: Do you follow a script book routine? How do you go about writing dialect trig story?

Devika: I don’t really have a fixed terms routine but work on my stories as slab when ideas strike me. If I’m writing wonderful historical story, I read through all the info and then work on a basic framework sieve my mind before actually getting down to dash off. If it’s a realistic story, I think drop to when I was in school at illustriousness particular age I’m talking about and let empty memories guide me towards writing the story. Hysterical am also a historian (I am currently contact my post-doctoral research in history) and ideas demand stories regularly strike me while I am perception through details of the past.  

Karadi: What peal you currently working on?

I am working wornout two books at the moment—one is a garnering of love stories from history and legends, last the other is a work of historical legend on a Kashmiri queen. Both are for character 12-14 age group.