“Quest for Jumbo Pearl” *Shankar’s Silver Medal for Writing Awarded “…For the first time today I finished my first roll of cotton. Amma is getting a new spinning wheel for me. I want to wear the hand-spun cloth but Amma woul... more

“Quest for Jumbo Pearl” *Shankar’s Silver Medal for Writing Awarded “…For the first time today I finished my first roll of cotton. Amma is getting a new spinning wheel for me. I want to wear the hand-spun cloth but Amma would hear none of it. She wiped her tears and said, “your delicate skin will get bruised, dear.” She doesn’t realise all the silks and velvets have begun to pinch me…” wrote Ambika in her letter to her grandfather, Diwan ji. Diwan ji left the custody of the jumbo-pearl to his grand-daughter, Ambika, before his arrest in the struggle for India’s Independence. The security of jumbo-pearl landed Ambika and her friends in various difficult situations because the British rulers were after the jumbo-pearl. Ambika follows the trail of jumbo-pearl as Gandhian non-violence grows upon her. Who won finally?