Whispers in the Classroom, Voices on the Field: Stories of School, Friends and Life

School! A splendid institution. It tells you about what's around you while helping you explore what lies within. It brings you face-to-face with personal triumphs and failures, victories and defeats, frictions and forgiveness, rivalry and team-work, lifelong friendships and heart-rending partings, and more. School, in short, is a complete life coach.

Whispers in the Classroom, Voices on the Fields brings together thirty one of the most sensitive contemporary children's Indian writers with as many school experiences neatly encapsulated between the covers. From the delightful to the mundane, the poignant to the quirky, the thought-provoking to the routine, the questioning to the traditional, the scary to the sublime-we have on spread the many many moods that define school-life for most. Read through for your own 'Hey, that's me in there!' moment.