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Ramendra Kumar is an Indian author, primarily of fiction for children and for young adults.


Biography

Kumar was born in Hyderabad, he attended Hyderabad Public School,
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. After completing a degree in engineering and an MBA, he moved to
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where he got a job at the
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.


Written works in school curricula and education

Kumar's work has been included in school curricula and educational programs. One of his stories was included in a textbook for students in the ninth grade in Norway. Another story was adapted as
Kamishibai is a form of Japanese street theater and storytelling that was popular during the Great Depression of the 1930s and the postwar period in Japan until the advent of television during the mid-20th century. were performed by a (" narrator") who ...
, the traditional form of storytelling in Japan. His stories have also been published in 15 textbooks for schools following CBSE, ICSE, and state boards as well as in the curricula in schools abroad.


References


See also

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List of Indian writers This is a list of notable writers who come from India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by ...
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Indian English literature Indian English literature (IEL), also referred to as Indian Writing in English (IWE), is the body of work by writers in India who write in the English language but whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous languages of India ...
* Sutapa Basu * Archana Sarat *
Arundhati Roy Suzanna Arundhati Roy (; born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author best known for her novel ''The God of Small Things'' (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. ...
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kumar, Ramendra Living people Indian children's writers Indian male novelists Indian male poets Indian satirists Year of birth missing (living people)