How I Taught My Grandmother to Read: And Other Stories

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This story book is showcasing the pure and warm relationship between a grandmother and her granddaughter.Because in this country of 1 billion people we have heard some stories from childhood that have a lot of moral value. They contain moral values and real-life experiences blended by Sudha Murty to form a great short story collection. The book is not a great book, but will always be close to my heart for the various small stories that touched upon the humane aspects.

When Sudha Murthy comes back, she tells her about her despair and expresses her strong desire to learn and read on her own. How I taught my grandmother to read and other stories’ seems like a pretty childish title for a book. My favourite stories were - The Red Rice Granary, A Wedding In Russia, A Story of Two Doctors, Dead Man’s Riddle, Doing What You Like Is Freedom and ‘A’ For Honesty.

The book is more than a story, as it carries a motivational facet and probably the valuable teachings of life. Sudha Murthy s How I Taught My Grandmother To Read And Other Stories has been translated into 15 languages.

The language used is simple and this makes it easily understandable and approachable to young readers.A very delicate and beautifully written book, you feel how honest and truthful it is, and that it comes from the heart of the author. This and various such profound experiences form the basis of How I Taught My Grandmother To Read And Other Stories. It was a heartwarming anecdote that beautifully portrayed the love between a grand-daughter and her grand-mother. The account of how her mother's advice to save money came in handy when she wanted to help her husband start a software company, and the heart-warming tale of the promise she made-and fulfilled to her grandfather, to ensure that her little village library would always be well supplied with books. After watching a couple of her videos, where she came across as a sincere person with good moral values, I was further keen on catching up with her writings and so decided to start with these short stories.

This was my first book by the author and I highly recommend it to people who want to start reading her. There is great simplicity in the lessons she tries to impart, they are those of the importance of education, honesty, perseverance, kindness, Independence and include incidents that moved her or made her think. The book teaches valuable lessons about courage of conviction and executing things that you feel you ought to do from within. If the author had cut down on the self glorification and the self appraisal on every second page, this book. In the pages of these books, she recounts her meetings with some famous and some not so famous people, who taught her great valuable lessons.Instead of undermining the person and demeaning him, by naming him publicly, a pseudonym could have been used. The picture of grandmother, the pathetic story her teacher, her husband, Nayana Murthy's initial trials and financial stringency to come up in life, her variegated experiences in her classroom and the rest of her stories - 35 in all - make us wonder at the tender human being amalgamating all the diverse experiences in all the stories she harks back to past and takes us aloft with her. I picked up this book, just for a break from usual reading , as short stories is something that i like to switch over to at times. You could've not done this kind of mistake as a very popular brand of Indian Scooter was named as a tribute to this very horse. The first title in the anthology, How I Taught My Grandmother to Read has been included in the CBSE Class 9 English syllabus.