Little Bird Learns to Fly

by Kamesh Aiyer

Little Bird is an Indian crow that is born, learns to fly, makes some friends, becomes a vegetarian, and so on. Some of the stories are based on ancient stories like the ones in the Panchatantra.
The first story was published by Pratham Books India and has been released under a Creative Commons license. They exercised the publisher's privilege of not telling the artist that LB was a crow, so this is the first story in the world about a cute blue crow-baby. Oh, well!
This book has also been published in Japanese Little Bird Learns to fly (translated) .
Hardcopy versions of this story packaged with a CD will be available at some point.
Pratham Books sells print versions translated into 4 Indian languages in India -- see http://tinyurl.com/8a9zeey

16 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 28, 2012

About the author

Literary (Pen-name: Kamesh Ramakrishna)
Kamesh Ramakrishna's first novel,The Last Kaurava was published in November 2015 by Leadstart Publishing (Mumbai). It is a novel that uses characters from the Mahabharata and follows a similar story arc to tell the story of Devavrat/Bhishma.

Kamesh re-wrote The Last Kaurava, eliminating the frame story set in 850 B.C.E., and moving some material to an appendix. This was published as The Making of Bhishma for the US market only, in November 2016 by Kashi Publishing of Cambridge, MA, USA.

Kamesh has previously published a short Kindle eBook Ekalavya - From the Reimagined Mahabharata (a re-telling of an episode from the Mahabharata) and an eBook play, The Making of Bhishma - From the Reimagined Mahabharata that dramatizes two critical events in Bhishma's early life. The play has been removed from Amazon and is no longer available.

Kamesh and his daughter Jaya wrote a children's book Little Bird Learns to fly published in India by Pratham Books (Delhi), and available as an eBook as well.

Professional (Kamesh Aiyer)
Kamesh Aiyer was raised in Mumbai where he attended “Bombay Scottish”. He went on to IIT/Kanpur for a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering where he was in the top five of the class. He then went on to the Computer Science Department (now the School of Computer Science) of Carnegie-Mellon University and graduated in 1981 with a PhD in “Artificial Intelligence and Human Factors” – his advisor was Professor Allen Newell, one of the founders of the field; the Nobel laureate Herbert Simon being on his thesis committee. While at CMU, he obtained a black belt in Shotokan Karate and performed with the Country Dance Society of Pittsburgh.

His professional career consisted of stints in academia (at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio) and in industrial research – he received three software patents for fast pattern-matching algorithms and was the architect for Motif 2.0 that became the foundation for the standard user interface of Unix workstations. He wrote financial software for Credit Suisse First Boston in New York City and later worked with a startup and was CTO/founder for another – both foundered in the dot-com crash of 2000.
Kamesh lives in the United States in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

His wife Geeta is a pioneer in the arena of Socially Responsible Investing. They have two daughters, both currently studying in college in the US.