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Ganesha
Aarav Hears the Call
Aarav · Ganesha · 23 language choices
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Every epic, every Purana, every saint, every festival, and why we do what we do. Every book cites the text it comes from.
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Ganesha's birth, the race around the world, the halahala, the Ganga in gentle hair.
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A king, a spirit, a clever riddle.
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A lost classic, echoed in later tales.
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Original text lost
Shukasaptati
A talking parrot spins tales of love.
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Simhasana Dvatrimsika
Thirty-two tales of courage and generosity.
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Dashakumaracharita
Ten young men. A world of adventure.
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Silappadikaram
One anklet. A woman's quest for justice.
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A young woman's path to compassion.
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Love, longing and lives reborn.
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Buddhist tales of deeds and their echoes.
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A prince's adventures lead to renunciation.
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Gau mata.
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Lambikin, lambikin, I'll eat you!
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All ages. One katha. One culture. One heritage.
The same story, thoughtfully told from a toddler's first book to the original text. Pick the age that fits.
- 0–3Pictures first. One line, maybe two.
- 6 pages
- 6–14 words a page
- No questions, just pictures
- One gentle ending
Books for 0–3 → - 4–6Two warm sentences a page.
- 6 pages
- 20–35 words a page
- 1 little questions
- Two endings
Books for 4–6 → - 7–12Early readers to chapter-book pace, the whole episode.
- 10 pages
- 40–120 words a page
- 5 little questions
- Two endings
Books for 7–12 → - 13–17The text itself, with its questions kept in.
- 12 pages
- 150–220 words a page
- 5 little questions
- Two endings
Books for 13–17 → - 18+Exact and explicit, as the original has it.
- 12 pages
- 180–260 words a page
- No questions, just pictures
- One gentle ending
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On a quiet morning, little Ganesha sat in the courtyard with Ma Parvati and Baba Shiva. The rangoli was fresh. The laddus were still warm.
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Who Will Give Me a Head?
Vardhamana Is Born
Michhami Dukkadam
Tenali Rama and the Goddess Kali
Birbal Shortens the Line
The Tree and the Vampire
Nasruddin Looks for His Key
Mahabali Comes HomeOur promise to parents
Told with love, told right
Three promises to every parent, kept in the code and not just on this page.
Their friend, their guide
Your child walks beside Ganesha, Hanuman or Krishna as a companion and helper, the way a child in a Puranic story would. The hero stays the hero, and your child gets the adventure.
Faithful to the source
Every katha names the book, chapter and verse it comes from. A model may polish a sentence; it never rewrites scripture, and every draft is checked.
Gentle under five
No weapons, no war, no fear used as a lesson for the youngest. Shelves that need an older reader say so on the cover.
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The best part of their day
One more story. One closer cuddle.
The lights get softer. The questions get bigger. Share a Ganesha story, a favourite lap, and a few unhurried minutes together.
A katha for the day
Festival mornings, birthdays, a new baby in the house.
Birthday
Birthday
A guide to the celebration
Many Indian families mark a birthday twice: once by the Gregorian date, and once by the child's birth nakshatra (lunar mansion) on the Hindu calendar.
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Find your occasion
The whole familyThis month's festivals — September
Every Hindu, Sikh, Jain and Buddhist festival we tell, laid out by the month it usually falls in — with its history, its ritual, and this month's book so kids get the whole story, not just the sweets.
Onam
Mahabali Comes Home
A guide to the celebration
Kerala's harvest festival, remembering the beloved King Mahabali, who visits his people once a year — pushed underground by Vishnu's dwarf avatar Vamana, but allowed to return home each Onam.
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What families say
“He asked for the Ganesha one three nights running. The Hindi page is the first thing my mother read to him on a video call.”
“She chose the second ending and then wanted to see the first one too. Both are printed in the book. That is the part I did not expect.”
“Beside the hero, not as the god. I did not know how much I needed someone to say that until I read it.”
“The buttons are big enough for my finger. That is all I ask of a phone.”
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