A taste of my latest book: THE EARTHQUAKE BOY


Look out for my new book in bookstores, or online from December 15th onwards!
Or do attend my BOOK LAUNCH on Saturday, December 21st 2019,  at Pagdandi Book Chai Cafe, 11 am to 1/ or Sunday, 22nd December 2019...in Pune Camp (Location still to be decided).
I have some fun surprises for everyone who attends. Looking forward to some animated discussions and much laughter!
EARTHSHAKING STUFF/
EARTHSHAKING STUFF??????
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(Here's a taste of EARTHQUAKE BOY. ...posted mid  April 2019....)
Hope to see it on the shelves by Dec 2019!  
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'   ............Volunteers desperately scrabbled away the mud and rubble from around him. People noticed the boy’s head. His thick black hair was matted with blood and dust. His face and the top of his checked red shirt were stained with dried blood from a large head wound. His right leg, pinned under the lower end of the cupboard at an awkward angle, was definitely broken. He looked deathly pale and drawn.
An intern scrambled down to check the boys pulse and let out a whoop of relief.
‘He’s ALIVE!’ the young doctor shouted up to the rescue team waiting at the side of the fallen building.  Several onlookers shouted ‘Hurry, hurry!’
Willing hands helped to lift the unconscious boy gently from the masonry around him but the boy didn’t feel a thing.  Quickly they moved him into a waiting ambulance. He did not know about the severe earthquake that had struck Gujarat five days before. Nor the fact that he was the only survivor in his building..........'
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Look out for snippets in my Blog...there's lots more to come!


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