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Weed
'All right, I will share my deepest, darkest secret. I loved my father…like, sons love their fathers, I loved mine too. And aren't sons forever following in their father's footsteps? Even if those footsteps are blighted…?' Weed, a follow-up of the award winning No Guns at My Sons Funeral, is a hard-hitting exploration of uneasy questions that keep raising their insistent heads in the 'war against terror' in Kashmir. Complex issues are examined through the innocence of a child caught in a web he never spun.
- GenresYoung Adult
152 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2008
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About the author
Paro Anand
53 books43 followersParo Anand is the author of 18 books for children and young adults, including plays, short stories, novellas and novels. She is also published in several anthologies and has written extensively on children’s literature in the country. She headed the National Centre for Children’s Literature, The National Book Trust, India, the apex body for children’s literature in India. As a part of her work here, she set up libraries and Readers’ Clubs in rural India and conducted training programs on the use of literature.
She is a World Record Holder, for helping over 3000 children make the World’s Longest Newspaper (850 meters long) in 11 Indian states in 13 languages. The concept behind the project was to give a voice to those children who do not have a platform and to empower young people to create their own literature.
Paro Anand has been awarded for her contribution to children’s literature by The Russian Centre for Science and Culture. Dr. Kalam, the President of India, honored her for her writings on Republic Day, 2007. She has represented the country at various forums internationally, including in the UK and France.
She is a performance storyteller and has performed her stories in many parts of India, UK, France and Switzerland. She runs a program, Literature in Action on the use of stories in the holistic development of young people. She was part of an Indo-Swedish workshop and has co-authored a book for teenagers with special needs, with a Swedish writer.
She has been a resource person with the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, working with children impacted by terrorist, separatist violence in Kashmir. Coming out of her experiences, she has written No Guns At My Son’s Funeral, a book that has had extensive critical acclaim. The book was nominated onto the IBBY Honor List, 2006, as the best book for young people from India. It is currently being translated into Spanish and German and talks are on for basing a film on the book. The book is about a young boy, seduced into becoming a terrorist. A follow up novel, also based in Kashmir, entitled Weed is the story of the son of a terrorist and his struggle to find an alternate life to sustain himself and his family.
She was a writer-in-residence at the Woodstock School, Mussoorie, India where she worked on writing her first novel for adults.
She is a World Record Holder, for helping over 3000 children make the World’s Longest Newspaper (850 meters long) in 11 Indian states in 13 languages. The concept behind the project was to give a voice to those children who do not have a platform and to empower young people to create their own literature.
Paro Anand has been awarded for her contribution to children’s literature by The Russian Centre for Science and Culture. Dr. Kalam, the President of India, honored her for her writings on Republic Day, 2007. She has represented the country at various forums internationally, including in the UK and France.
She is a performance storyteller and has performed her stories in many parts of India, UK, France and Switzerland. She runs a program, Literature in Action on the use of stories in the holistic development of young people. She was part of an Indo-Swedish workshop and has co-authored a book for teenagers with special needs, with a Swedish writer.
She has been a resource person with the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, working with children impacted by terrorist, separatist violence in Kashmir. Coming out of her experiences, she has written No Guns At My Son’s Funeral, a book that has had extensive critical acclaim. The book was nominated onto the IBBY Honor List, 2006, as the best book for young people from India. It is currently being translated into Spanish and German and talks are on for basing a film on the book. The book is about a young boy, seduced into becoming a terrorist. A follow up novel, also based in Kashmir, entitled Weed is the story of the son of a terrorist and his struggle to find an alternate life to sustain himself and his family.
She was a writer-in-residence at the Woodstock School, Mussoorie, India where she worked on writing her first novel for adults.
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November 9, 2017
Unsound writing style.
August 18, 2020
The writing is horrible, the sentences are strung together in a desperate attempt to make them seem poetic.
Not just that, the author sympathizes with a child following the footsteps of his terrorist father. She labels the Indian soldiers situated in Kashmir as 'people who do not belong there'.
The authour portrays the terrorist and his children as the protagonist and the soldiers as evil antagonists. After reading this, I'm never gonna read the rest of her books.
Not just that, the author sympathizes with a child following the footsteps of his terrorist father. She labels the Indian soldiers situated in Kashmir as 'people who do not belong there'.
The authour portrays the terrorist and his children as the protagonist and the soldiers as evil antagonists. After reading this, I'm never gonna read the rest of her books.
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October 14, 2008
This is one of the excellent books I've ever read..
it is the story of an innocent boy and his mother, after his father left them to join the jihadis.
it is the story of an innocent boy and his mother, after his father left them to join the jihadis.
March 18, 2013
Great book loved it want to see what happens next though.
August 27, 2013
this book is so amazes to read it out.
December 1, 2010
this book looks good im going to read it.
March 5, 2013
Heart wrenching. I am SO grateful to be born where and when I was!
May 21, 2014
it is very intresting and i want to read it quikly
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