Living with Adi

<p>Zarin Virji a creative writing graduate from the University of Sheffield follows her passions of teaching and writing.<br><br>For over three decades she has played the role of a teacher teacher trainer and head of school. From 1996 to 2006 she edited the journal <i>Classroom</i> a safe space for all matters related to education. Her writing is as much about expressing spontaneous feeling as it is about grappling with socio-economic realities of our times. Her poetry and short stories have been featured in publications such as the <i>Research Scholar</i> <i>Route 57 </i>and <i>The Best Asian Short Stories </i>(2018).</p>|<p><b>Adi Krishnan is different!</b><br>He is a bright student who loves to read and remembers everything down to the smallest details&#8212;yet he has no friends. His unusual view of things makes his classmates and teachers regard him as a weirdo.<br>Will the bullying ever end? Will people accept him as he is? Will he gain the respect of others especially his dad?<br>Award-winning author Zarin Virji creates the extraordinary journey of an ordinary boy narrated by him his family classmates and a teacher. And how despite the challenges living with Adi is in fact unexpected delightful and funny.</p>