As I write this, more a response than an introduction to a book of delightful stories by Indian writers about animals, I hear my seven-year-old nephew playing in the background. He wants to be an animal most of his games involve impersonations of his favourite animals.
I'm tempted to join him and his friend in the game, and I do, unable to hold myself back after I hear him say, "Then you'll fall down and die-all dinosaurs died like that, falling down.' His friend attempts to mimic the imagined dinosaur, I come in and pretend to be another dinosaur, but am immediately shooed away: 'You're a human, you can't play with us.