प्रत्येक टप्प्यावर तिला प्रेम आणि विरहाच्या विस्मृतीत गेलेल्या कथा भेटतात आणि खरे खजिने फक्त सुंदर नसतात, तर जपून ठेवण्यासारख्या आठवणीही सांभाळतात, हे तिला उमजते. भारतातील लाडक्या कथाकाराच्या वैशिष्ट्यपूर्ण शैलीत सांगितलेली द मॅजिक ऑफ द लॉस्ट इअरिंग्स ही एकात्मतेची, धैर्याची आणि वारशाची हृदयस्पर्शी कथा आहे, जी शेवटचे पान वाचूनही मनात दीर्घकाळ रेंगाळत राहते.
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WHEN A PAIR OF ANTIQUE EARRINGS LANDS IN NOONI’S HANDS, HER QUIET HOLIDAY WITH AJJA AND AJJI TURNS INTO THE ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME. FROM THE SACRED GHATS OF UJJAIN TO THE BUZZING STREETS OF AMRITSAR, THE STORIED LANES OF DELHI AND ALL THE WAY TO LONDON, NOONI FOLLOWS A TRAIL SHIMMERING WITH MYSTERY AND HISTORY. EACH STEP BRINGS HER FACE TO FACE WITH FORGOTTEN TALES OF LOVE AND LOSS, REVEALING THAT TRUE TREASURES AREN’T JUST BEAUTIFUL―THEY HOLD MEMORIES WORTH KEEPING ALIVE.
SUDHA MURTY IS AN INDIAN EDUCATOR, AUTHOR AND PHILANTHROPIST WHO IS CHAIRPERSON OF THE INFOSYS FOUNDATION. SHE IS MARRIED TO THE CO-FOUNDER OF INFOSYS, N. R. NARAYANA MURTHY. MURTY WAS AWARDED THE PADMA SHRI, THE FOURTH HIGHEST CIVILIAN AWARD IN INDIA, FOR SOCIAL WORK BY THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA IN 2006.
LEENA SOHONI IS A PROLIFIC WRITER AND A TRANSLATOR AND HAS BEEN CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH MEHTA PUBLISHING HOUSE FOR OVER 33 YEARS. SHE HAS TRANSLATED OVER FIFTY FIVE BOOKS INTO MARATHI INCLUDING THE MUCH TALKED ABOUT LAJJA, BY BANGLADESHI AUTHOR TASLIMA NASREEN. APART FROM TRANSLATION LEENA ALSO WRITES IN PERIODICALS, DAILIES AND ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS IN ENGLISH AND MARATHI. LEENA COMPLETED HER MASTERS IN GERMAN FROM PUNE UNIVERSITY IN THE YEAR 1981 AND WAS AWARDED CHANCELLOR’S GOLD MEDAL FOR SECURING THE HIGHEST RANK IN THE ARTS FACULTY. LEENA IS A RECEIPIENT OF NUMEROUS LITERARY AWARDS INCLUDING THE STATE GOVERNMENT AWARD FOR BEST TRANSLATION (FOR HER TRANSLATIONS: LAJJA BY TASLIMA NASREEN AND WISE AND OTHERWISE BY SUDHA MURTY), G.A.KULKARNI AWARD, N.C.KELKAR AWARD, BAL SHATRI JAMBHEKAR AWARD AND RANJIT DESAI AWARD TO NAME A FEW. SHE HAS ATTENDED ADVANCED TEACHERS’ TRAINING COURSES IN GERMANY ON SCHOLARSHIPS, ONCE BY THE GOETHE INSTITUTE AND ONCE BY THE CULTURAL MINISTRY OF GERMANY.