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THE MAGIC CHEST SERIES is a pack of mystery and crime solving stories written for the age group of 10 to 16 years but can be enjoyed by adults of all ages as well.
This (The Kidnapping) is the introductory novel that showcases the characters and sets the tone for the rest of the stories.
Here is a gang who are the kids of today; naughty, playful, intelligent, internet savvy, gizmo friendly, well-informed and adventurous. The gang is led by Mannu, a brave and athletic 14-year-old.
The characters – Mannu, Rita, Raju, Nicky and Sanju can easily be identified by any viewer as themselves or other kids in the locality.
The cases they solve are also crimes that happen every day in a city like Mumbai.
Tackling contemporary crimes, the series also aims to install values like courage, loyalty, friendship and teamwork among children.
Manoj Vaz
MANOJ (VAZ) RAMCHANDRAN
Born in the middle-class underbelly of Mumbai, it took Manoj two decades and a random IQ Test to realize that he had an IQ of 169.
He started his advertising career as a junior copywriter in Sam Balsara’s Madison Advertising but soon realized that he was too independent to toe a line and started his own creative boutique, Touché Communications in 1991 at the ripe old age of 25.
25 years, 50 clients and a few awards later, he realized that writing for clients did not give him the creative satisfaction he craved.
It dawned upon him that being in a hectic, deadline ridden industry will never give him the time to follow his own dream. A pursuit that did not need a brief or approval from client.
On an impulse he shut down his running ad agency the day he turned 50 and started or rather resumed writing Tinsel, a novel he had started 2 decades back. Tinsel was published in 2015 and soon climbed up the bestseller charts.
Once his popularity grew, he published two volumes of his original quotes, Random Musings, which were extremely well received and flooded the internet.
