Children's Literature
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The early 1900s saw the rise of Hindi children’s journals such as Balak, Balsakha and Kanya Manorajan that published articles instilling nationalist morals and patriotism in kids, opining on what constitutes an ideal future-citizen for India. We look at how these journals attempted to influence the…
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Here five young students talk to their interviewers about their reading and writing experiences and their relationship to various texts and writers. This segment is an experiment; an experiment to listen to what children have to say. About reading, about writing, about dreaming and about giving…
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Veerankutty is a contemporary environment poet. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Malayalam at Government College, Madapally. As a writer, he has published several anthologies of poems and children’s fiction. His poetry collections include titles such as Jhala Bhoopatam,…
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Saraswathy Rajagopalan has over two decades' experience in the world of publishing. She has a Diploma in Advanced Studies in Publishing from Oxford Brookes University. She started her publishing career in Oxford University Press (OUP), followed by Taylor & Francis, and then moved back to OUP.…
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The word ‘propaganda’ is defined by the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary and Thesaurus in the following way: ‘Information, ideas, opinions, or images, often only giving one part of an argument, that are broadcast, published, or in some other way spread with the intention of influencing…
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Children’s literature, as a category, is often relegated to the position of ‘minor’ literature in the literary canon. The narratives and voices of children are conventionally thought of as ‘immature’ or ‘innocent’. As an extension of this perspective, the roles and motives of children’s magazines…
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One of the debates happening around children's literature is about the degree of adult involvement and interference in the writing, publishing and selection of a text for the child reader. One end of the debate posits children's literary texts as an easy approach to imposing adult values on…
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