Monisha Mukundan writes for children. She loves history and writing for children so she is happiest when she can combine the two. She has written two full length historical novels for chidren and several books of short stories. Some of her published books are: Akbar and Birbal:Tales of Humour, Asoka the Great, My Mother the Sandwich Maker and other Tales of Food. The Akbar and Birbal stories are about the witticisms of Birbal, the clever courtier of the Mughal emperor Akbar. These stories are very popular with children. Monisha lives and writes in Delhi. Subhadra Sen Gupta writes primarily f