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A review by kumarnishanthtr
How I Taught My Grandmother to Read and Other Stories by Sudha Murty
3.0
How I Taught My Grandmother to Read is a collection of short stories (24 to be precise) written by Sudha Murty. In this book, Sudha Murty has written stories taken from excerpts of her life experiences and the stories which were told to her by her mother and grandmother.
The book is an easy read. The narration is simple and fast paced. In no point of time, we face difficulty to continue reading. Each story portray a moral lesson for the reader and this alone makes the book very important for children. The lessons which the author convey from the story makes the reader think and contemplate the lesson in their own way. The first story where the author teaches her 62 year old grandmother to read and be on her own instead of depending on others for the help shows how determined was author in sharing the knowledge.
However, the book does seem a bit of self-boasting by the author. In most of the stories, Sudha Murty tells us about how she is loved by her students, how her trust is helping the poor in Karnataka, how her husband rose to fame and so on. It does feel a bit too much to read the egotistic passages. And few stories feel that they are exaggerated as the author says them as real incidents and one cannot help but wonder for the genuineness.
In all fairness, the book is a good read for one time and preferable if you do not want to care for the factual representation. The reader should inherit the good values from the book and try to apply the positive things in life to live better.
The book is an easy read. The narration is simple and fast paced. In no point of time, we face difficulty to continue reading. Each story portray a moral lesson for the reader and this alone makes the book very important for children. The lessons which the author convey from the story makes the reader think and contemplate the lesson in their own way. The first story where the author teaches her 62 year old grandmother to read and be on her own instead of depending on others for the help shows how determined was author in sharing the knowledge.
However, the book does seem a bit of self-boasting by the author. In most of the stories, Sudha Murty tells us about how she is loved by her students, how her trust is helping the poor in Karnataka, how her husband rose to fame and so on. It does feel a bit too much to read the egotistic passages. And few stories feel that they are exaggerated as the author says them as real incidents and one cannot help but wonder for the genuineness.
In all fairness, the book is a good read for one time and preferable if you do not want to care for the factual representation. The reader should inherit the good values from the book and try to apply the positive things in life to live better.