Curious Sameer on Kirkus Reviews

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!…

The SABA experience

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…

RIP Manna Dey

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…