After a long, long hiatus, the ‘Meet the authors’ series is back on our blog. This time, we feature Uma Krishnaswami, a prolific children’s author and a teacher of writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has written over 20 picture books, illustrated books and novels for children, and her books have been published…
That’s our Publishing Director, Shobha Viswanath telling the story of Kutti and the Mouse at The Palms at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi. The 6th Bookaroo Festival of Children’s Literature happened there last weekend. She regaled the audience of over 50 kids and parents with the delicious tale of the seven…
There are so many exciting things happening at Karadi Tales this month! Kanyika Kini collected the SABA award for The Rumor in Madison, we received the gorgeous multilingual editions of The Rumor from Edition Orient, and our spectacular theatrical production Karadi Rhymes – Once Upon A Bak-Bak Tree premieres at the Chinmaya Heritage Centre, Chennai tomorrow!…
We received the multilingual editions of our award-winning book, The Rumor from Edition Orient yesterday. The story of Baddbaddpur is now being told in German, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Tamil and Malayalam! Take a sneak-peek of the books, look how fantastic they are! And guess what? You can also play Spot-the-Difference with these books! Go on,…
You do know that our book, The Rumor won the South Asia Book Award this year, don’t you? The illustrator, Kanyika Kini went to Madison for the award ceremony and she sent us a happy little mail about her experience there. Read on. I had a really lovely (and pretty hectic!) trip to Madison. The book…
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…
