New Delhi, May 12 -- In the late 1990s, when Sudeshna Shome Ghosh was working with Puffin, the children's imprint of Penguin Books India (now Penguin Random House India), she had an opportunity to publish one of the most exciting books of her career. "The Puffin Book of Magical Indian Myths (2000) by Anita Nair was a big book for us-one of the first of its kind to retell Indian mythology for young readers," says the editor and writer. She commissioned Atanu Roy, one of India's finest illustrators and cartoonists, to illustrate it. "His approach was 'old school', he took no shortcuts, and worked on each illustration for as long as he needed to," Shome Ghosh adds. "Anita would lose patience once in a while, but then, Atanu would send an ima...