Preeti Thakur’s Contribution to Maithili Picture Stories

Detailed description

Mallick situates picture narrative between oral storytelling, visual art and children’s first encounters with language. She surveys translations and original collections, praises the use of line, colour and Mithila painting techniques, and emphasizes accessibility before alphabetic literacy. The essay interprets the books as a connection between younger readers and regional culture; its broad claims are attributed to Mallick.

This is a signed contribution in the volume’s Preeti Thakur and her creative/archival work strand. The page preserves the contributor’s attribution, the normalized chapter identity, the English-edition locator, and the paired Maithili/English repository manifestations so that the critical argument can be read in its book context rather than as an isolated quotation.

Source edition and provenance

Repository locator: ENGLISH_SETUSHAM.pdf · PDF pp. 64–70 ↗

SHA-256: 5dab29b70848c88fde7f163faa6857f45bbb9d145b5e81c05aeca4354c213b94

Paired Maithili edition: SETUSHAM.pdf ↗