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Vikram and Vetal: Tales of Wit and Wisdom

Author: Polie Sengupta
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Pages: 224
Type: New Book

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Peace and prosperity for his kingdom or freedom from a tiresome ghost? King Vikramaditya’s justice is put to the test. And how is a twelve-year-old girl connected to this tale? The tale of King Vikramaditya and a Vital testing the king’s famed sense of justice is a classic. Many centuries later, these stories—that King Vikramaditya had asked for to be handed down generations—are narrated to a twelve-year-old girl by a mysterious old man. But who is this storyteller? And what connects the girl to a king from ancient times? Poile Sengupta brings alive 

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Poile Sengupta was born in 1948 as Ambika Gopalakrishnan. She is one of the foremost Indian writers in English especially well known as a playwright and writer for children. Her formal first name is Ambika but she writes and is known, as Poile. She has been a college lecturer, a senior school teacher, an educational consultant, a communication and language skills consultant, a consultant editor for a market research firm, and a teacher for Montessori school children. A number of her books for children have been published, including The Exquisite Balance. (1985), The Way to My Friend's House (1988), The Story of the Road (1993), How the Path Grew (1997)- (all Children's Book Trust, New Delhi), The Clever Carpenter and Other Stories, The Naughty Dog and Other Stories, and The Black Snake and Other Stories (all Frank Brothers, New Delhi, 1993), Waterflowers (Scholastic, 2000), Vikram and Vetal (2006) and Vikramaditya's Throne(2007)(Puffin). Roll Call has been translated into Bahasa Indonesia [4] and Vikram and Vetal into French.