
When Anita the Beekeeper was “very small”, she would walk pass the village school on her way to

This story for children tells how Anita began to attend school against her family’s wishes when she was only seven, how she earned her way, and even used her enterprise to start a business that saw her through college.
I found the storyline thin, the language vague and the grammar iffy, but the illustrations are so beautiful that they make the book extremely attractive and I thoroughly enjoyed the time I spent with it. The question I couldn’t avoid asking is – who is this book meant for? For most children who will get to read it, it will be a story about how the other half live. I think it might also embed in them a sense of the relationship between education and economic wellbeing – not a bad thing at all. But those kids to whom Anita might have made an admirable and much-needed role model will have no access to it because it’s in English and there are at present no plans to translate it into an Indian language.
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