When Amma Went Away won the First Prize in the category General Fiction in the Competition for Writers of Children's Books organized by Children's Book Trust. The other titles by the author published by CBT are Company for Manisha, Whitey and the Monsters, Growing Up, and short stories 'A Cure for Ravi' in Kaleidoscope, 'Our Next-Door Neighbours' in 22 Short Stories, 'Whose Work Is It?' in Teenage Stories and 'The Pigeons' in Indian Folk Tales.