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Seba DasSarma, Illustrated by Priya DasSarma
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mrs. Seba DasSarma was born and raised in Bengal. She grew up in a typically large household of 2 brothers and five sisters in South Calcutta, where music, drama, and the arts were greatly appreciated and treasured. She relished the Hindu epics, Ramayana and Mahabarata, as well as many contemporary Bengali authors including Rabindranath Tagore, the first Nobel Laureate (in literature) from Asia. She was educated at the Ashutosh College and taught English at the Lake School in Calcutta.

Later, she moved to West Virginia with her husband and two children, where she worked as a librarian. In West Virginia, she also became a grandmother of four beautiful and talented grandchildren. Over the years, she has enjoyed telling about her native India and her childhood there to them and has collected several stories in this book for them to read. Some came from her mother and grandmother, such as the “Silent Palace” and “The Ghost with the long Arm”, while others, such as the story of Sita come from the Ramayana.

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

Priya DasSarma, mother of two sweet little ones, lives with her husband and children in Maryland. She received her education at the University of Vienna and the University of Massachusetts.

Ten years ago, she found many of these stories in the form of letters written to her husband by his mother and felt a need to preserve and share the tales. She typed up the stories and edited them with the help of the whole family and her friend, Betty Rolander. Th is is the first book she has illustrated.

She has always enjoyed reading and listening to tales from her birth-land, India, even though she spent much of her childhood traveling with her family in Europe and the United States. Her grandfather, who lived with her family, was a great source of comfort and stories, as was her Aunt Devkiji in India, who spent countless hours telling her stories and teaching her how to cook, when she was little. She still often thinks of her childhood in India and wishes it were not so very far away.... For more, see recent article in The View and the Baltimore Sun.

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