Subhashini
Subhashini
SHOOTING AT DHAB DHABI FALLS by Mala Kumar Manan Books, Urja Series, 2019, 20 pp., 200
November 2019, volume 43, No 11

Shooting at Dhab Dhabi Falls published by Manan books is part of their Urja Series. These are stories that are set in the Indian landscape, with tidbits of information in between that encourage middle schoolers to think and recharge their minds. This story is set in a place called Mukrapura close to the Dhab Dhabi Waterfalls in Kalaburagi, where the Baligar family is running a home style restaurant. The entire family works at the restaurant dishing out local delicacies like Jolada roti and Ennegayi with homegrown vegetables. The Ajja, Ishwar Baligar, is an avid Bhimsen Joshi fan who even sings to his earthworms so that they make vermicompost faster. Things take a sudden turn, when they are commissioned to deliver food to a movie crew who are shooting at the Dhab Dhabi Waterfalls.

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