![]() Amar Chitra Katha comic books were a shade more engaging than the rest. You could find some bland mythological storybooks, some didactic Panchatantra stories or Vikram-Betal or Akbar-Birbal stuff. There was inspirational literature, boring to the core. There were textbooks and other educational material. That was when I first encountered the serious dearth of quality books for children in Hindi. Madhulika and I were keen that our children learn our languages. Rupa Hathi was among the many Hindi books that my children had grown up with. I remembered this lovely story in the National Book Trust (NBT) stall at Delhiās World Book Fair last week. Rupa washed off her makeup and her sadness too. They wanted their good old Rupa, the elephant, back. But the young visitors to the zoo would have none of this strange-looking creature. So the tiger lent his stripes to her, the leopard gifted his spots, the parrot coloured her tail green, and the peacock printed its feather design on her trunk. ![]() She lived in a zoo and found herself ugly. ![]()
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