Ashok Rajagopalan loves making people laugh and walking in the rain.
He has been illustrating books for children since 1989 when he drew for Chandamama's Junior Quest and writing them since 2007.
His Witchsnare, published by Penguin India, is India's first gamebook and his first published book.
Ashok believes that anybody can write or draw, if they really want to.
He lives with his family in Korattur, a quiet suburb of Chennai.
A snail learns that it has its own little protection from the elements on a very rainy day
A runaway peppercorn brings out the flavour of the busy streets of a village in Kerala
A journey of discovery of man's earliest ancestors and the science that enables us to study them.
A story woven around the fun things that kids do to entertain themselves.