Firsts and more firsts

From
'Radha Cha Ghar'
At 3 -
Learning my first language
And metaphors and similes and onomatopoeia
And punctuation and sentence structure and semantics
To
'La Famille de Radha'
At 17 -
Learning my first foreign language
Complete with idioms and phrases
And differences in punctuations
And its nuances and subtleties:
A full circle.
With Aai

at its center.

PS Radha Cha Ghar and La Famille de Radha are children's books written and illustrated by Madhuri Purandare, in Marathi and French, about a little girl, Radha, and her family consisting of Aai, Baba, Aaji, Nana, and her beloved Kaka. The Marathi books form a big part of my childhood and why I love stories, and I will always be grateful to my mother for introducing them to me.