How I Taught My Grandmother to Read: And Other Stories

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This story book is showcasing the pure and warm relationship between a grandmother and her granddaughter. There is great simplicity in the lessons she tries to impart, they are those of the importance of education, honesty, perseverance, kindness, Independence and include incidents that moved her or made her think. She not only suggests us to be positive and optimistic but also shares with us the dark side every human being has.

It urges the reader to reconnect with his moral fiber through its stories on honesty, friendship, and patriotism. After the author comes back from a week-long vacation, she finds her grandmother in tears because she couldn t read her favourite stories and is saddened that she didn t go to school. The book teaches valuable lessons about courage of conviction and executing things that you feel you ought to do from within. The account of how her mother's advice to save money came in handy when she wanted to help her husband start a software company, and the heart-warming tale of the promise she made-and fulfilled-to her grandfather, to ensure that her little village library would always be well supplied with books.

Who won’t admire Mrs Sudha Murty’s philosophies and her relentless devotion to her philanthropic activities? If the author had cut down on the self glorification and the self appraisal on every second page, this book. Though fictional, most of the stories have anecdotes from the author s personal life, especially her childhood. Her books have been translated into all the major Indian languages and have sold over three lakh copies around the country. Baffling at first, the experience of living and coming through this strange request changed the child s mind forever.

When Sudha Murthy comes back, she tells her about her despair and expresses her strong desire to learn and read on her own. There are many gripping stories about Sudha Murty's students, children as well as stories across India. This and various such profound experiences form the basis of How I Taught My Grandmother To Read And Other Stories. Because in this country of 1 billion people we have heard some stories from childhood that have a lot of moral value.

The first title in the anthology, How I Taught My Grandmother to Read has been included in the CBSE Class 9 English syllabus. The laughter in this book will keep you entertained, and the author's life teachings are an added bonus. It has the stories of helpful strangers as well as the strangers who betrayed many people; incidences about trust, realizing dreams, perseverance, honesty and hard-work. This was my first book by the author and I highly recommend it to people who want to start reading her. While I wouldn't recommend them to someone who prefers more polished writing, I certainly can't deny that her voice strikes a chord inside my own middle class, ambitious self.

Sudha's feet because she is now her teacher, about red rice, about her joining Tata company and being the first female to dare to do so at those times, meeting Mr. I felt a strong underlying ubiquitous humble bragging across the book regarding herself or her family which appeared to be somewhat compulsive, and sadly that diminished my opinion considerably. Each story has a liberal dose of morality about it and she deftly makes it an inalienable part of the story. The reader can learn loads from this simple living, high thinking teacher who has spent most of her life doing charitable work.How I Taught my Grandmother to Read and Other Stories” is her first book for children and is a collection of 24 short stories. My favourite stories were - The Red Rice Granary, A Wedding In Russia, A Story of Two Doctors, Dead Man’s Riddle, Doing What You Like Is Freedom and ‘A’ For Honesty. 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. 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. But here the author succeeded in giving an awesome book for kids and adults altogether, all from real life experiences.