But here the author succeeded in giving an awesome book for kids and adults altogether, all from real life experiences. One may safely conclude that this rich harvest of stories, How I Taught My Grandmother and Other Stories is marked by fidelity to truth and beauty.

In ‘A lesson in Ingratitude’, what she conveyed was a fair point, but I completely disagree with the way that point was put across. How I taught my grandmother to read and other stories’ seems like a pretty childish title for a book. The language used is simple and this makes it easily understandable and approachable to young readers.Every word by her is imprinted on my mind as I read it in quite an early age but quite enough to understand and bring the morals in my behaviour. 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.

In fact, they stories are hallowed in reality, is the impression one would get, even if you randomly take up a story. She has been awarded the Raja-Lakshmi Award, and the Padma Shri award for her contribution in the spheres of social work, charity and philanthropy. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. It urges the reader to reconnect with his moral fiber through its stories on honesty, friendship, and patriotism. 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.

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. Baffling at first, the experience of living and coming through this strange request changed the child s mind forever. The stories are about her teachers and her students, her friends and her family, her husband and her children, her early career as an engineer and her latter one as a teacher and social worker.

Her grandparents, themselves being illiterate, put all their effort into teaching their children and grandchildren .These stories make you laugh, cry, and most importantly, they instil in us a sense of responsibility and commitment toward the people in our society. The laughter in this book will keep you entertained, and the author's life teachings are an added bonus. The book is more than a story, as it carries a motivational facet and probably the valuable teachings of life. 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. The first title in the anthology, How I Taught My Grandmother to Read has been included in the CBSE Class 9 English syllabus.

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. 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. And they are just so meaningful and heart touching that I was misty eyed from the beginning to the end. The horse's name was ' Chetak' And not ' Chetan', something South Indians conveniently forget or overlook in the history of North Indians.

Sudha Murthy s How I Taught My Grandmother To Read And Other Stories has been translated into 15 languages. I felt a strong underlying ubiquitous humble bragging across the book regarding herself or her family which appeared to be somewhat compulsive, and sadly that diminished my opinion considerably. As a bright woman from a simple middle class family with a liberal upbringing, Sudha Murthy reminds one of a school teacher and her stories have an instructive tone to them. She not only suggests us to be positive and optimistic but also shares with us the dark side every human being has. 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.