On 28th April 2017, during Literary Week, students of classes V and VI got an opportunity to meet the well known author, Ms. Ketaki Karnik. She said she enjoys doing read aloud sessions of detective stories at schools and has conducted sessions at different schools like DPS, Amity, Shriram, The British School, Step By Step etc. She was also a part of the Jaipur Literature Festival and the Kahaani Festival.
The case of the Chinese Mastermind is her debut book and her second book, The case of the Wishing Vampires is to be released soon. This is the second time that our School has invited her and she was also delighted to meet our cheerful young students again.
On being told that Africa is the School theme this year, she took her story plot to Ethiopia with her characters were Varun, Siddharth, Kavya and Raima, students themselves!
[gallery link="file"]She asked them to imagine themselves in Ethiopia for a school exchange programme. They were then transported to a crime scene where they were landed with a situation where they had to solve a mystery and acquit themselves, as it were. It was the case of a stolen diamond!
The tale was about how the theft is blamed on these 4 and how they take it upon themselves find the truth and free themselves of the misdirected blame. Eventually they are able to nab the culprit with the help of a witness. This was was the most exciting part of the story!
Ms. Karnik also skilfully wove in facts about the tribes of Africa like the Hamar tribe, upon whom, in the story, the blame finally fell.
The story session was thoroughly enjoyed by the children as they themselves were involved as protagonists. It seemed like a terrific real life mystery workshop!
Ms Karnik herself said she enjoyed the session and left with a promise to come back.
Ms. Tarannum Athar.
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