Books by Samhita Arni & Moyna Chit

Samhita Arni was Tara's youngest author - they published her version of the great epic Mahabharatha in 1996, when she was 12. The book, which she wrote and illustrated, has been published in seven languages. She has since studied film and religion at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, US, and is currently working with a Pakistani woman filmmaker. Moyna and Joydeb Chitrakar are performers and artists from the Patua scroll painting tradition of West Bengal. To watch a video of Moyna Chitrakar performing from the Ramayana scroll which inspired the book click here