# We Once Were Gazelles

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- Published: 2021-02-22T21:50:05+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author:** Michael Chacko Daniels[⌊A sample cover of the book: red coloured handloom sari with gold embossed nameplate and lettering for the title and author's name. The border of the sari lines the right hand margin of the cover.⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/We-Once-Were-Gazelles.jpeg)
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Illustrator:** Rukmini Chakravarty **Pages:** 468 **Year of Publication:** 2020 **
Price:** Rs 1000 / $40 **ISBN:** 978-81-946740-7-8 (9788194674078)

_**About the Author**_
 Michael Chacko Daniels lives and writes in San Francisco.
He grew up in Bombay, where he attended St. Michael’s High School, Wilson College,
and University of Bombay’s Department of Economics. He has a Master’s degree from
Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. His parents grew up in an ancient Syrian
Christian community in the South Indian state of Kerala. In their middle years, 
in Bombay, they joined the local Baptist Church out of conviction. His adventures
in the United States include five years as a Volunteer In Service To America (VISTA);
four as editor/publisher of the New River Free Press of Grand Rapids, Michigan; 
four as assistant editor in San Francisco at The Asia Foundation; and sixteen at
Berkeley’s Center for Independent Living. He helped start the Jobs for Homeless 
Consortium of Alameda County in 1988, and to run it through mid-2004. He is a naturalized
citizen of the United States. This is the ninth book he has published with **Writers
Workshop**, India.

_**About the Illustrator**_
 Rukmini Chakravarty is an artist and illustrator based
in Kolkata. After getting a Master’s in Fine Arts in printmaking from Kala Bhavana,
Shantiniketan, she studied painting, photography, book art, and printmaking at the
Aegean Center for Fine Arts in Paros, Greece. To pursue her interest in engaging
with rural communities, she worked as a Creative Arts teacher at the Rosehips Centre
in Marpha, Nepal, and engaged with Dhokra artists at the Devrai Art Village, Panchgani,
Maharashtra. She was a Resident Artist at Cona Foundation, Mumbai. Publishers of
her illustrations include the Baithak Foundation (Pune), Anjali Mental Health Rights
Organization (Kolkata), Pluto Children’s Magazine (Ektara), and Village Community
Development Association (Pune).

_**About the Book**_
 In this coming of age novel set in 1950s Bombay, Michael Chacko
Daniels explores both an India that was cosmopolitan, and the slow rise in exclusionary
politics in the country, through the life of a Malayali Syrian Christian boy growing
up at that time.