What’s Special? • What happens when Gundan and Gundi eat up the lion’s share of dosas? Find out in The Lion Who Loved Dosas. • Tantri lures Hooja on to a faulty aeroplane. When his plans seem to be succeeding, an unexpected person turns the tables in Tantri the Mantri: The Great Fall. • Revisit Shikari Shambu’s very first adventure as he is tasked with tracking a ferocious tiger. • A thief disguised as Santa Claus. Suppandi eager to help him. What follows? Suppandi: Spreading Christmas Cheer. Hohoho! Also starring: Find out how an old lady outwits a thief in The Talking Lamp. Doob Doob learns to climb a tree but this helps no one, especially Chamataka in Kalia the Crow. A king decides to appoint a new tax collector in the most bizarre way—by making the applicants dance in The Selection Dance. Our very own Uncle Pai, the founder-editor of Tinkle, narrates a scary tale—Ghost!

BRAND NEW STORY: “Cup of Copy” Archie is appointed with a very important task from Mr. Weatherbee. It seems simple enough—but with Archie in charge, things are certain to go awry!

An enchanting and joyous exploration of life and creativity at the geographical edges of the modern world Who is a provincial? In this subversive book, Sumana Roy assembles a striking cast of writers, artists, filmmakers, cricketers, tourist guides, English teachers, lovers and letter writers, private tutors and secret-keepers whose lives and work provide varied answers to that question. Combining memoir with the literary, sensory, and emotional history of an ignored people, she challenges the metropolitan's dominance to reclaim the joyous dignity of provincial life, its tics and taunts, enthusiasms and tragicomedies. In a wide-ranging series of "postcards" from the peripheries of India, Europe, America, and the Middle East, Roy brings us deep into the imaginative world of those who have carried their provinciality like a birthmark. Ranging from Rabindranath Tagore to William Shakespeare, John Clare to the Bhakti poets, T. S. Eliot to J. M. Coetzee, V. S. Naipaul to the Brontës, and Kishore Kumar to Annie Ernaux, she celebrates the provincials' humor and hilarity, playfulness and irony, belatedness and instinct for carefree accidents and freedom. Her unprecedented account of provincial life offers an alternative portrait of our modern world.