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.

Paro Anand runs a programme - Literature in Action -in Delhi and various places including Kashmir. She headed the National Centre for Children's Literature, NBT, India. In 2000, she helped children make the world's longest newspaper in thirteen languages in eleven different states in India. This is her eighteenth book. She has been awarded for her contribution to children's literature, including the IBBY Honor List for No Guns at My Son's Funeral, 2006.