Diwali celebrations began early for a group of children at San Jose, thanks to Roopa Suresh who organised an evening of Karadi stories, dance and craft at the San Jose Library. Here’s a video clip from the event, watch Roopa perform to a song from Hanuman The Mighty.
Our Creative Director and one-third of the band 3 Brothers & A Violin, Narayan Parasuram writes a lovely little note about working with Manna Dey.It took me several attempts to meet Manna Dey during the creation of Bandar Bindaas Bandar – not that it was difficult to reach him but simply because he could not understand…
We learnt of the death of the veteran singer, Manna Dey earlier today and we couldn’t help but think of the lovely ‘Nadiya Mein Paani’ that he sang for one of our Karadi Katha titles, Raja Kapi. To listen to this lilting melody written by the renowned poet and Hindi lyricist, Gulzar, click here. RIP Manna Dey…
Eight-year-old Rachel reviews some of our titles for the San Francisco Book Review. Here’s what she has to say about The Story and the Song: “I like this book because it had very pretty pictures and it was really nice to listen to. I like the story (and the song!); I think it is fun…
Who is Sadhvi Jawa, you ask? If you’ve picked up An Elephant in My Backyard, one of our newest titles, you’d know about this lovely lady and her work of art. If you haven’t, head to the Karadi Tales website and place an order for the book right away! Sadhvi teaches at the Srishti School of…
Anushka Ravishankar needs no introduction, does she? We all know that she is one of India’s most well-loved children’s writers and that she, along with Sayoni Basu, founded Duckbill Books. We also know that she is the head of SCBWI, India. Of course we know about her Karadi Tales books, don’t we? The SABA-award-winning Rumour, The…
Greetings from Karadi Bear everyone! Starting today, we will be featuring profiles and interviews of Karadi illustrators and authors on our blog twice every week. Today, we want you to meet the immensely talented illustrator, animator and film director, Shilpa Ranade. In case you didn’t know, she is the illustrator of two of our phizz-whizzing…
Say hello to the newest member on our team, Nithya Sivashankar! Having completed an MA in Writing for Children at University of Central Lancashire, England, she joined us as Editor Karadi a week ago. Nithya spent four years in the company of bacteria and fungi before taking up feature writing for newspapers. For reasons unknown…
Bela’s lost her Ma at the bazaar! Where could she have gone? With the help of a whole new host of friends including an intrepid goat and a man who walks on air, Bela sets off to find her Ma! Join Bela’s lively afternoon at the Wednesday bazaar in Neha Singh’s whimsical tale, rendered by…
Happy Gandhi Jayanthi, everyone! Celebrate the day by listening to Bapuji’s favourite bhajan here – https://soundcloud.com/karadi-bear/vaishnava-janatho. Do not forget to pick up a copy of Karadi Tales’ abridged version of Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography – The Story of My Experiments With Truth! The text is adapted by Anushka Ravishankar and Shobha Viswanath, and the art work is…