Newsletter March 2020 | Karadi Tales

**KARADI TALES BOOKS FOR FREE!**

Karadi says: stay home, stay safe!

If you’re bored, maybe you’d like to listen to a celebrity read you a story. During the lockdown, Karadi Tales is allowing free streaming of our most popular audiobooks. Listen to stories narrated by Usha Uthup, Nandita Das, Vidya Balan, R Madhavan, Soha Ali Khan, Jaaved Jaaferi and others! If you’d like to hunker down for some fun indoor activities later, check out the Picture Books and Activities section – read free picture books and download arts, crafts and colouring activities or fun fact sheets. If you’d like to read any of your own Karadi Tales books aloud, tag us in your video or tweet it to us with the hashtag #KathaWithKaradi and we might feature your child on our official pages! Watch this space for new content as the days go by. Here’s sending you a big Karadi-hug to get you through this experience. Happy reading and listening!

Read and listen to our stories here.

**TUNE IN FOR OUR LIVE STORYTELLING SESSIONS!**

We have a lot of exciting things planned for the next two weeks! Get ready for live sessions every day!
To catch these live sessions, visit our Facebook page here.
If you miss a live event, or want to see more similar content, visit our Katha with Karadi page here.

KARADI TALES WINS
AUDIOBOOK PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR!

A record 3 shortlists and 1 huge win for Karadi!

Karadi Tales has won the “Audiobook Publisher of the Year” award at The London Book Fair’s International Excellence Awards 2020. We thank our young and old readers and all who’ve been part of our 25-year journey!
Karadi Path was also shortlisted for the Education Initiative Award and the Educational Learning Resources Award. Karadi Path was founded in 2010 as Karadi Tales’ partner company with the aim of bridging the cavernous English literacy gap in India by using stories and immersive learning.Watch our announcement here.

A PAIR OF TWINS AT KAHAANI BOX

Kavitha Mandana was at Kahaani Box this month for a meet-the-author session and regaled a packed roomful of kids with her story A Pair of Twins.

SOME GREAT REVIEWS!

“…Lalita Iyer’s story is amusing and cheerful and throws some light on typical family mind-set and the joys of growing your own food!” – KidEngage

“…if you’re looking for a read-aloud fun-fueled reading adventure with a touch of suspense… Rats Bigger than Cats is the book to read!” – Bookedforlife

THE RUMOUR IN STORY TIME WITH SOHA ALI KHAN!

The Rumour by Anushka Ravishankar and Kanyika Kini will be a part of this amazing podcast, powered by Juggernaut, where 7 publishers and actress Soha Ali Khan come together to bring to you a first-of-its-kind podcast for children. You can listen to The Rumour on the 17th of April at the links below:
Links: http://bit.ly/2HDZzYD + http://bit.ly/329vObo

OUR PROJECTS!

Karadi Path has been working across the country with various state departments in both state & central supported government schools. Karadi Path implements programmes in schools not only in partnership with government agencies, but also with support from NGOs, CSRs and international donors. Over the years, Karadi Path has been expanding its services with support from trusted partners to provide high impact plus low cost programmes that deliver English proficiency to non-English speaking environments. Karadi Path recently signed 3 new projects with CSR and NGO partners for the upcoming academic year.

Magic English Vaachan is a project signed by Karadi Path with the National Stock Exchange Foundation for implementing Karadi Path’s language learning programme in Nandurbar district of Maharashtra. In the academic year 2019-2020, the project was kickstarted in 100 (Phase 1) schools and based on the evident impact the programme was creating among the children and teachers, the service has now been expanded to 324 more (Phase 2) schools in Nandurbar district.

Godrej and Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd. has partnered with Karadi Cultural Alliance Trust (KCAT) in the implementation of the Karadi Path Magic English SLL programme in 17 Zilla Parishad schools across Khalapur block, Raigad district, Maharashtra. The programme is supported by their CSR initiative for the next three years.

OfERR (Organization for Eelam Refugees Rehabilitation), an NGO that works with Sri Lankan refugees in India for their peace, dignity and empowerment, signed a pilot project for the academic year 2019-2020 with Karadi Path for implementing the KP ME SLL Programme in 3 refugee centres across Chennai, Cuddalore and Trichy districts of Tamil Nadu. Based on the impact the programme was creating, the programme has now been expanded to 15 more refugee centres across various districts of Tamil Nadu.