NOTE: Apologies to my listeners who listened to the initial episode I uploaded, the two tracks were overlaid with a slight mismatch, resulting in some crosstalk. I fixed it, and uploaded a cleaner version here. Sorry again!

This episode of Cutting Chai Stories with Jayati Vora features part 2 of my interview with journalism mentor and prolific writer of books for adults and children, Jerry Pinto. Make sure to catch part one of our conversation in episode 16!

Jerry talks about writing colloquially, hitting up against the "wall of grammar" and how children can smell an agenda from a mile away. He dismantles the messages sometimes coded in children's books, and writing with simplicity while exploring a complexity of emotion. If all writers learned from children's books, he says, that would be a good thing for the state of literature.

The book he talks about (the fart story in the title) is Phiss Phuss Boom: https://www.amazon.in/Phiss-Phuss-Boom-Stories-Grandparents/dp/9383331089/ref=sr_1_48?dchild=1&qid=1593988241&refinements=p_27%3Ajerry+Pinto&s=books&sr=1-48

You can follow Jerry Pinto on Instagram @mahimkajerry: https://www.instagram.com/mahimkajerry/?hl=en