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Abandoned as a young child, Kalu, a cheeky street kid, has against all odds carved out a life for himself in rural India. In the quiet village of Hastinapore, Kalu makes friends: Bal, the solitary buffalo boy, and Malti, a gentle servant girl, who, with her mistress, Ganga Ba, has watched out for Kalu from the first day.
'Perched high in the branches of a banyan tree, Kalu chooses a leaf, rolls it tightly and, doing what he's done for as long as he can remember, blows through it. His pure simple notes dance through the air attracting a travelling healer whose interest will change Kalu's life forever, setting him on a path he would never have dreamed possible, testing his self-belief and his friendships.
'With all the energy and colour of India and its people, Dancing to the Flute is a magical, heart-warming story of this community's joys and sorrows, the nature of friendship and the astonishing transformative powers of music.' (From the publisher's website.)
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Dedication: This book is for my babies Shekha, Shivali and Tara and my son Sohum.
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- Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Music as Empowerment : Espousing Cosmopolitanism in Indo–Australian Writer Manisha Jolie Amin’s Dancing to the Flute
2024
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australia–India Encounters 2024; (p. 207-221) -
[Review] Dancing to the Flute
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 344 2012; (p. 49)
— Review of Dancing to the Flute 2012 single work novel -
Fiction
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 21 April 2012; (p. 30)
— Review of Dancing to the Flute 2012 single work novel -
Take Three : Fiction
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 15 April 2012; (p. 26)
— Review of Dancing to the Flute 2012 single work novel ; The Memory Tree 2012 single work novel
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Take Three : Fiction
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 15 April 2012; (p. 26)
— Review of Dancing to the Flute 2012 single work novel ; The Memory Tree 2012 single work novel -
Fiction
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 21 April 2012; (p. 30)
— Review of Dancing to the Flute 2012 single work novel -
[Review] Dancing to the Flute
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 344 2012; (p. 49)
— Review of Dancing to the Flute 2012 single work novel -
Music as Empowerment : Espousing Cosmopolitanism in Indo–Australian Writer Manisha Jolie Amin’s Dancing to the Flute
2024
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australia–India Encounters 2024; (p. 207-221)
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