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Shabnam Minwalla has been instrumental in changing the children’s literature landscape in India. Her book, The Six Spellmakers Of Dorabji Street, won the RivoKids’ Parents and Kids Choice Award for Indian books.
Shabnam got her MA in Journalism at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and was a Chevening Scholar at Wolfson College in Cambridge.
Her stories are not just for children but also about children, and that is what makes her popular among young readers.
Her talk at TEDxYouth@DAIS is “What is the Moral of the Story?” where she will discuss whether every story for children needs a moral or a lesson. She will present the magic and power of fiction and the subtle messages that it can convey, especially when it doesn't end with that prosiest of epilogues: “And the moral of the story is…”