Deepa Balsavar is a multi-award-winning writer and illustrator of children’s books. Her work has been translated into several languages, and in 2019 she was honoured with Parag’s Big Little Book Award for her contribution to children’s illustration in India. She is currently an adjunct associate professor at IDC, the School of Design at IIT Bombay.
Nandini and Deepa are close friends who have known and worked together since the early 1990s, developing teaching-learning materials primarily for municipal schools in Mumbai through the path-breaking Avehi-Abacus Project. Nandini continues to work with the organisation.