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Get cracking! History Mystery code sheets!

Get cracking! History Mystery code sheets!

Am delighted to share the History Mystery code sheets as a do-at-home activity with your kids. Ashoka and the Muddled Messages features a mystery of Emperor Ashoka's messages being muddled. In real life we had forgotten how to read the script that Emperor Ashoka had...

Rooster Raga crows at Young India books

Rooster Raga crows at Young India books

Review time for Rooster Raga. Delighted to read this on the Young India Books website. "A visual treat with its brilliant colours, great layout and minimal text! This book is sure to delight and entertain children everywhere...  ...On the surface, the story is bright,...

Mystical history at the Ajanta and Ellora caves

Mystical history at the Ajanta and Ellora caves

Spent an outstanding weekend exploring the Ajanta and Ellora caves. The monuments outdid all expectations both in terms of their gorgeous paintings and sculptures, as well as the state that you find them in today. We'd had people tell us that they smell, have bats and...

The Reading Raccoons on Ashoka and the Muddled Messages

Review time! " History is not easily lapped up by kids. My younger one, at least, tries to avoid all references to the subject. So, when he picked up a book from Natasha Sharma's History Mystery series, I was pleasantly surprised. Two books from the series are out,...

On my historically geographically challenged past…

Here's a blog piece that I wrote for my publisher Duckbill's blog regarding history, geography and more such. Ooty and Orissa Natasha Sharma, the author of the History-Mystery series, on her struggles with history and geography at school and beyond! There is one bit...

History Mystery available as ebooks

I am super excited and delighted to post that Akbar and the Tricky Traitor and Ashoka and the Muddled Messages are now available for download as ebooks for Kindles and iPads.  The ebooks are available on amazon.com and flipkart. Here are some quick links to download...