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Here at the Pod, we share thoughts and opinions about the need to think beyond tokens of diversity in
children’s literature. As we get rooted, we will feature stories about Citizens of Change. Please stay a while, and join the conversation.

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September 2, 2025

Sanjha Panjab

Before the Radcliffe line in 1947, there was Sanjha Panjab – a territory sharing language, food and agricultural knowledge. Cyril Radcliffe had never even visited the […]
August 7, 2025

A Colouring Book with Purpose

There has been a gluttonous trend of late – of using a popular design platform to create and sell colouring books for children – except, the […]
August 7, 2025
Purple rectangular horizontal frame with white background. Text in black on left reads: Recipes from the Rubble and on the right two images of the deep purple book cover with title embossed in gold.

Recipes from Under the Rubble

To talk about stories centred around food while simultaneously witnessing the forced starvation of populations around the world would seem thoughtless, cruel, antagonistic even, if not for the […]
March 15, 2025
Text on the left in black on white background reads: Happy Publication Day! On the right two images from the book We Are Cheesemakers. One is a fascera holding a cheese wheel to rest and the other is a brother and sister of Sikh heritage hiding under a blue checkered blanket.

Happy Publication Day!

The image of the sister and brother hiding under a blanket in their little ‘tug boat’ will hopefully encourage conversations about migration and displacement journeys. There […]
February 2, 2025
book cover shows a parmigiano reggiano cheese wheel in the centre with a label on the top showing the title We Are Cheesemakers in copper foil across the middle and an image of a sister holding up a pair of binoculars with one hand and a madaanī spoon in the other, stirring the milky waves below. Her brother wearing a blue dastaar is leaning over the edge with a spino, both covered in a dhurrie (traditional blanket) and sat in a 'tug boat' or traditional indian copper serving dish (mirroring the copper vats used for boiling milk). The background is a traditional phulkari pattern in muted yellows and browns.

We Are Cheesemakers Cover Reveal

This is a project that has been difficult to ‘reveal’ given the heartache of the world. When we are witnessing harsher border divisions, trade wars, watching […]
January 17, 2022
Title image with lilac frame and black tag on the bottom left with website details. In the white space an image on the left is an outline map of Panjab illustrated in watercolour hues of orange and purple. Text on map reads Jaagde Raho (Stay Woke) in Panjabi. Text on right reads: Meet the founder of Jaagde Raho: a social change maker

Jaagde Raho: Strengthening a Nation through Collective Intelligence

SEEDS OF KNOWLEDGE SERIES: SOLUTIONARIES   The issues faced by farmers did not end with the repeal of the 3 farm laws. As a larger Sikh […]