Dr Shailesh Mani Tiwari is the author of The Mind of Rudra. He writes for teenagers who are told too early that a rank, a label, or a comparison is the whole of them. In Rudra Sharma he follows one ordinary school year, and the years after it, to show that success is not a notice-board verdict. It is a mind that can return: to the error, to the work, to the people who tell the truth, and to the next morning.
His concern is the middle of the effort, not the poster of the result. Growth against fixed labels, near goals, daily systems, grit after a public failure, sleep and attention, family and friendship, craft before applause, and the skill of beginning again are the materials of this book. He offers them as a story, not as a slogan.