How I Taught My Grandmother to Read: And Other Stories

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The reader can learn loads from this simple living, high thinking teacher who has spent most of her life doing charitable work.

After completing the book,I again wanted to revise all the lessons taught in the story-as I always do with other books-and Trust me Its double the fun reading the book twice. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Every word by her is imprinted on my mind as I read it in quite an early age but quite enough to understand and bring the morals in my behaviour. In the pages of these books, she recounts her meetings with some famous and some not so famous people, who taught her great valuable lessons. They contain moral values and real-life experiences blended by Sudha Murty to form a great short story collection.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. Funny, spirited and inspiring, each of these stories teaches a valuable lesson about the importance of doing what you believe is right and having the courage to realize your dreams. It was a heartwarming anecdote that beautifully portrayed the love between a grand-daughter and her grand-mother. 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. 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.Sudha Murthy s How I Taught My Grandmother To Read And Other Stories has been translated into 15 languages.

When Sudha Murthy comes back, she tells her about her despair and expresses her strong desire to learn and read on her own. Her grandparents, themselves being illiterate, put all their effort into teaching their children and grandchildren . Baffling at first, the experience of living and coming through this strange request changed the child s mind forever. Because in this country of 1 billion people we have heard some stories from childhood that have a lot of moral value.The laughter in this book will keep you entertained, and the author's life teachings are an added bonus. She has been awarded the Raja-Lakshmi Award, and the Padma Shri award for her contribution in the spheres of social work, charity and philanthropy. The book is not a great book, but will always be close to my heart for the various small stories that touched upon the humane aspects.