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'A novel of ideas'--Jerry PintoA child grows with mother's loveAlso with its reverse.The sun nurtures trees and flowersThe moon is equal nurse.Thus do things grow and thriveIn this our universe.The evening prayers in the ashram are over. Cowbells tinkle sweetly in the distance. The residents of the ashram sit in a circle, their eyes fixed on Shyam, who has promised them a story as sweet as lemon syrup. And so Shyam begins. While on some evenings he tells them of his boyhood days, surrounded by the abundant beauty of the Konkan, on others he recalls growing up poor, embarrassed by the state of his family's affairs. But at the heart of each story is his Aai-her words and lessons. He reminisces of the day his mother showed him the importance of honesty and the time she went hungry just so her children could eat a full meal. Narrated over the course of forty-two nights, Shyamchi Aai is a poignant story of Shyam and Aai, a mother with an unbreakable spirit. This evergreen classic, now translated by the incomparable Shanta Gokhale, is an account of a life of poverty, hard work, sacrifice and love.

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Sadashiv Pandurang Sane was a writer and a poet. He was such a fine teacher that he was given the title of National Teacher and came to be known as Sane Guruji. He wrote seventy-three books in all, mostly for children, of which the most famous and loved is Shyamchi Aai. Editor, playwright, orator, film-maker Acharya Atre made a film on the book that won the President's Gold Medal for Cinema in 1954 at the first edition of the National Film Awards.

Shanta Gokhale is a novelist, translator, columnist and performing-arts critic. Her Marathi novel Rita Welinkar was published in 1992 and won the Maharashtra State Award for the best novel of the year. In 2009, her novel Tya Varshi also won the Maharashtra State Award for the best novel of the year, which was later translated into Crowfall. Shanta Gokhale was honoured with the Sangeet Natak Academy Award in 2015 and the lifetime achievement award for her exceptional body of work and impact in the Indian literary field at the Tata Literature Live! Festival in 2019.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Puffin (18 January 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 014344770X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0143447702
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 222 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.78 x 2.29 x 18.42 cm

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Apurva Shah

An experience for sure

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Fabulous. Well translated. Should be part of the curriculum of city bred children. The best lessons to impart.

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Dimplesh K.

Inspirational book

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I liked the way this book shows us the morals of life

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Good translation by Shanta Gokhale

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Neil Binoy

A tale sweeter than syrup

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Shyaamchi Aai is a brilliant book by Sane Guruji, written in a manner not akin to one another. Both are webs of prose, filled with morals told through its characters. Told over 42 masterfully written stories, sweet as syrup, as Shyaam promised, but still as poignant. Shyaam, telling each story as an anecdote from his life, has set each story to revolve around his mother, Aai, a strong, judicious, but kind and loving mother. It revolves around the fact that Shyaam's antics taught him lessons that he would carry with him for the rest of his life, and his keen observations in these stories have given us a close insight into the world of the early 1900s, and the hardship of debt his khot family had to endure, culminating in the confiscation of their house by the government. In a way, the book also represents Aai's life cycle, from the time she was married into the wealthier family, through the financial decline fuelled by growing debt, to her death in the midst of unbearable hardship and poverty, without a home. In a way, Shyaam's inability to be at his mother's deathbed crippled him, heaving a heavy load of guilt upon him, which he carried with him. At the beginning of the book, we're told that Shyaam, kind and striking as he is, has tried to forget his childhood, though he has taken the lessons from those years forward. The book, told in a fast-paced, colourful narrative, is charged by the small, maybe half-a-paragraph windows into the listening boys' lives. When Pandit Vishnu Sharma wrote the Panchatantra, I doubt he envisioned such a book to come in its exalted footsteps. The Panchatantra was written to teach princes. Shyaamchi Aai is the chronicle of a boy and his mother, told through struggles, hardships, and pain. Shyaamchi Aai is a classic tale by Sane Guruji, semi-autobiographical, yet sweet and poignant. It was adapted for a beautiful feature film in 1953, and is a classic, historic tale of life during the Raj. A must-read.

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