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July 20th, 2017 Amma, Take Me to the Golden Temple, The Hindu, Hyderabad

July 20th, 2017 Amma, Take Me to the Golden Temple, The Hindu, New Delhi

July 19th, 2017 Amma Take me to the Golden Temple, The Asian Age, New Delhi

July 3rd, 2017 Amma, Take Me to the Golden Temple, The New Indian Express, Chennai

June 30th, 2017 Amma, The New Indian Express, Chennai

July 31st, 2016 Bhakti Mathur on the show ‘Cultural Dimsum’ talking about her passion for Indian mythology.

May 14th, 2016 Meet Bhakti Mathur, private banker and children’s book author.

May 6th, 2016 Bhakti Mathur talks about her eleventh book in the ‘Amma Tell Me’ Series – Amma Tell Me About Durga Puja!

April 26th, 2016 Simplifying mythology through ‘Amma Tell Me’.

January 2nd, 2016 The author of the ‘Amma Tell Me’ Series talks about her love of Indian mythology.

December 18th, 2015 Tales of Adventure: Bhakti Mathur talks about the final book in the Hanuman trilogy.

November 11th, 2015 In Lanka with Hanuman.

November 1st, 2015 The author of the Amma Tell Me Series talks about how she started writing and about her future projects.

June 3rd, 2015 In ‘Amma, Tell Me How Hanuman Crossed the Ocean!’, Bhakti Mathur depicts Hanuman as brave, witty and intelligent.

June 1st, 2015 The Banker and mother-of-two talks about her early influence, work-life balance and her fascination for mythology.

May 27th, 2015 Bhakti Mathur, author of the book ‘Amma, Tell Me How Hanuman Crossed the Ocean!’ joins us in an exclusive Interview.

May 21st, 2015 Decoding Indian Mythology for children.

May 17th, 2015 Hong Kong based Bhakti Mathur has turned Indian mythology tales into an easy to remember style, making mythology and Indian tales fun for today’s child.

May 13th, 2015 Hong Kong based children’s writer Bhakti Mathur feels that good stories nourish children as much as food.

May 11th, 2015 A Banker turned writer knows mythology is hot. A mother and corporate queen decided to write her own series.

May 6th, 2015 ‘Amma Tell Me About Hanuman!’ (Part 1 in the Hanuman Trilogy) wins an award.

April 30th, 2015 Why I love Holi and Krishna!

April 23rd, 2015 Making Mythology Relevant.

April 14th, 2015 We all are passionate and curious in life. For some of us, it is trying new food, for others travelling widely and for others like Author Bhakti Mathur, it is writing books for curious children.

April 8th, 2015 Parents and parents to be listen-up – this may just be the thing you need while you stay away from India and try your best to keep kids in touch with culture and tales we grew up with!

January 23rd, 2015 India Launch of ‘Amma, Tell Me About Hanuman’ in Jaipur.

September 12th, 2014 Review of ‘Amma Tell Me About’ book series featured on Indian Mothers blog mommyswall.com

September 9th, 2014 Bhakti Mathur wanted to give her elder son a sense of his Indian heritage. Diana David wanted her daughter to learn the alphabet using Hong Kong objects she could recognise. Neither of them could find children’s books to suit those… needs, so they wrote their own.

September 5th, 2014 Bhakti Mathur, based in Hong Kong and mother of two started her work as an author in 2011, when she published her first book “Amma, Tell Me About Holi”. A former investment banker who has lived in Mumbai & Delhi settled in Hong Kong as a private banker and author. Her foray into writing books for…

August 16th, 2014 We discovered the Amma, tell me about …. series at Full Circle Bookstore, New Delhi. The series presents Indian mythology and festivals for young kids, so there’s a Diwali book, a Holi book, a Ramayana book and so on. The piece de resistance is the illustrations, which I personally think are…

November 11th, 2012 This week, my younger daughter and I made diyas at our parent-child playgroup. Diyas are earthen oil lamps used for Diwali. The teacher explained Diwali, the Indian festival of lights, to the parents, while the children explored working with clay. After we give the clay a couple of days to set, the…

October 12th, 2012 Magical memories from my childhood. Shopping in the bazaar with my grandmother in the lead up to Diwali – the stalls stacked with dazzling silks, the smell of sweets being fried, the order in all the chaos around us, and just the sheer buzz in the air. Then all the excitement at home on Diwali day…

August 13th, 2012 Bhakti Mathur tells Matt Fleming her books on Indian mythology have got young readers all excited. Kids like tales. Fact. Followers of Hinduism like colourful stories on mythology. Fact. Hong Kong author Bhakti Mathur has cashed in on this obsession by creating the…

March 5th, 2012 “Holi hai, bhai, Holi hai, bura na maano, Holi hai” – the universal evocation associated with Holi says it all about the festival and what it means for me. A warning as well as a plea for forgiveness, both rolled into one, it is the license for indulging in all sorts of naughtiness and fun-filled pranks that one would…

February 22nd, 2012 I finally fulfilled my long-time desire to become a writer with a children’s book series, Amma Tell Me About, the idea for whcih came as a way to introduce my sons, aged four and two, to Indian festivals and to the wonderful mythology associated with them. The goal was not only to keep the narrative…

June 14th, 2011 Daily7 interviewed Bhakti Mathur. She wrote the book ‘Amma, Tell Me About Holi’. She grew up in India. But now she lives in Hong Kong with her family. ‘Amma, Tell Me About Holi’ is her first book for children.

June 9th, 2011 Daily10 recently interviewed Bhakti Mathur, the author of ‘Amma,Tell Me About Holi’. She grew up in India but now lives in Hong Kong with her family. ‘Amma, Tell Me About Holi’ is her first children’s book…