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Oct 1, 2017 · In 1942, when Mahatma Gandhi asks Indians to give one family member to the freedom movement, ten-year-old Anjali is devastated to think of her father risking his life for the freedom struggle. But it turns out he isn't the one joining. Anjali's mother is.
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- Supriya Kelkar
AHIMSA (Tu Books/Lee & Low Books, 2017), Scholastic India’s international bestseller, and the recipient of an ALA Booklist starred review, a School Library Journal starred review, and winner of the New Visions Award, is a middle-grade novel that takes place in 1942 in India, an era of great change as Indian citizens fight for independence ...
It is 1942 and 10-year-old Anjali’s mother has joined India’s freedom struggle. Anjali gets unwillingly involved in the turmoil. She has to give up her biases against the Dalit community, or the so-called untouchables, and sacrifice her foreign-made clothes for khadi.
- Supriya Kelkar
And with this change comes many more adjustments designed to improve their country and use “ahimsa”—non-violent resistance—to stand up to the British government. First the family must trade in their fine foreign-made clothes for homespun cotton, so Anjali has to give up her prettiest belongings.
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- Supriya Kelkar
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Oct 2, 2017 · Winner of the New Visions Award for her middle grade novel AHIMSA (Tu Books, 2017), Supriya is a screenwriter who has worked on the writing teams for several Hindi films.
- Supriya Kelkar
Oct 2, 2017 · In this historical middle-grade novel, Gandhi asks for one member of each family to join the fight for independence from the British, and when Anjali’s mother is jailed for doing so, Anjali must step out of her comfort zone to take over her mother’s work.
Oct 1, 2017 · by Lois Lowry. Although Kelkar’s debut novel takes place in colonial India in the 1940s, when Indian citizens were fighting for independence from British rule, it is uncannily timely: 10-year old Anjali grapples with issues of social justice in many of the same ways young people are today.
Oct 2, 2017 · In 1942, after Mahatma Gandhi asks Indians to give one family member to the freedom movement, ten-year-old Anjali is devastated to think of her father risking his life for the freedom struggle. But it turns out he isn’t the one joining. Anjali’s mother is.
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- Supriya Kelkar
