The Wednesday Bazaar

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…

It’s Bapuji’s birthday!

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…

The Fox and the Crow reviewed by Uma Krishnaswami

Children’s author and teacher of writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts, Uma Krishnaswami reviews one of our hot-off-the-press titles, The Fox and the Crow on her blog, ‘Writing with a broken tusk’- http://umakrishnaswami.blogspot.in/2013/09/new-books-from-karadi-tales-aesop.html. This dark retelling of the popular Aesop’s fable written by Manasi Subramaniam and illustrated by Culpeo S. Fox is now available…

Karadi Tales at Publishing Next 2013

Manasi Subramaniam represents Karadi Tales, at the recent Publishing Next. She spoke on two panel discussions at Publishing Next 2013 in Goa on 20 and 21 September. She participated in a panel entitled Indian Content and its Global Future along with Ameya Nagarajan, Arpita Das, Namita Gokhale, Praba Ram and Praveena Shivram.   She also…

Karadi Birthday Party!

   Saturday evening saw the Mahamudra Restaurant in Mylapore host a Karadi Birthday Party. No, it was not Karadi’s birthday but Harshika, a young child who turned all of FIVE! Our storytellers from BLPSenchanted the young audience with the Fish Friends Three story and a special birthday song for Harshika! Karadi was feeling slightly under…