Review
Despite being individual tales, the two books serendipitously pose several similar questions. Both, Sakina and Raji, find themselves judging their role in it all, and whether they agree with the adults that surround them. In The Chowpatty Cooking Club, several refreshing perspectives present themselves through the adults. Where one is fighting through underground radio broadcasts, the other is chastising the freedom seekers.
Two parallel lives in Madras and Bombay, questioning their purpose and duty under a colonial regime that are in many ways the same and completely distinct. Did every child in India at the time go through this? We're waiting on the rest of the series to find out.
-- The New Indian Express -
For the children of freedom Published On: 2022-02-10
About the Author
Lubaina Bandukwala has been in children's publishing as a writer, editor and festival curator for a decade. She founded the Peek A Book Literature Festival for children's, which is now in its fourth year. She does all this so that she can read all the books she wants anytime she pleases and say she's working.
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