The Good News Reporter - by Suchitra Krishnamoorthi

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Suchitra Krishnamoorthi- everyone would have heard of her. Famous for her 'Dole Dole" song and as being wife of director Shekar Kapur. But now-a -days she is popular for her paintings, acting and guess what her
books.  I got the time to read 2 books from the series called "Swapnalok Society". It revolves around the life of  small girl born in London but growing up in the most happening society of Mumbai.
The first one - Summer of Cool
It deals with life of the protagonist friend's life. How she goes in search of her father who abandoned them for money thinking all the time her mother was the reason for the breakup. The initial barriers the new girl in a society has to break to make new friends. It introduces us to the prominent characters in the society and background on girl's life.

The second one - The Good news reporter


The girl firmly believes in what her mother  had told her " If you hear good things you will also do good things".  She gets a new gift from her father (who is always busy in his news channel ) - amonkey with hidden camera and begins taking videos of the society ppl. She presents to them the life of their society during a festival. The channel's boss just happens to watch this and is impressed. He allows her to telecast some "Good News" in a prime slot. However things take a bad turn when the trp falls and her father's second in command delibrately edits the videos to add "masala" and shows the society ppl in poor light. How the girl manages to save herself and also her fellow friend in the nearby slum from evacuation forms the story. She gets accolades from the "President of India" on her initiatives as "Good News Reporter".

Hope our news channels out there get their message from this story. In the whole day they could atleast allot an hour to show some Good news that is happening in our country rather than always showing bloody things they dedicate their time for.

Way to go Suchitra- A nice series of books for all the young kids out there.

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