Linguistics
By Vaishali Shroff. Illustrations by Adrija Ghosh
Vaishali Shroff’s Taatung Tatung and Other Amazing Stories of India’s Diverse Languages is an impassioned plea for linguistic diversity, emphasizing the social, historical and cultural value of preserving languages even as she chronicles the impact of languages defeated and lost due to the hegemonic march of dominant tongues across the Indian subcontinent.
Reviewed by: Mahalakshmi Jayaram
By Nandini Nayar
Aditi Anand uses simple illustrations to beautifully uplift this sombre subject. Her illustrations are bound to invoke curiosity in a child’s mind. I spent a considerable amount of time fixating on the minute details in her drawings. The figures in the book are etched in a carefree manner, almost from the gaze of a child. The grandfather’s expressions are tinged with a little sadness
Reviewed by: Rutba Iqbal