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Suno Katha · Indian stories for children · 23 languages

Hundreds of Indian stories. Read them, or step inside.

Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchatantra and hundreds more, told for your child's age. Read or listen straight from the shelf, put your child beside Ganesha, Hanuman and Krishna, or write a katha of your own.

Browse 2,675 booksMake your own katha

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Six heroes step into motionThe journey begins
Indian stories, coming aliveHeroes leap from the page, then gather back inside the book.
  • 23 language choicesread and listen in your mother tongue
  • Five age groupsage-specific editions, where available
  • Readfree, in the browser
  • Listenstoryteller audio
  • Watchmoving covers and films
  • Printsoftcover or hardcover
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This week at Suno Katha

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Three ways into the house

Most families start on the shelf and never need more. The other two doors are there when you want them.

  1. Most families start here

    Read from the library

    2,675 kathas across the shelves, ready as they are. Read or listen tonight, nothing to set up, no account.

    Browse 2,675 books

  2. Put your child in a tale

    Pick any katha from the shelf, add a name and a face, and your child walks beside the hero. Same story, now theirs.

    Pick a katha to personalise
  3. Optional extra

    Write your own

    A line of your own, and the desk writes a brand-new katha in the same voice, with the same care. Only if you want to.

    Open the desk

Their next favourite story. With them in it.

A familiar face, a favourite hero, and the people they love. Make a little room for your family.

Put your child in a katha

Optional. Every katha reads just as well without it.

What shall we call them?
Choose a face for their companion

Their name stays on this device. Photos are optional.

Live cover
Ganesha
Aarav Hears the Call
Aarav · Ganesha · 23 language choices
Just Aarav and Ganesha

Art style: Suno Katha

Pick a katha. Make it theirs if you like.

Every katha reads as it is. Adding your child is optional and takes under a minute.

  1. A child picks a book from a tall painted shelf
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    Choose a katha

    From the shelf, or a line of your own.

  2. A photo of the child becomes a character beside Hanuman
    2

    Add your child, or don't

    A photo or a face, a name, and how they join. Skip it and the katha reads as written.

  3. A family flips through every page before anything is made
    3

    Preview every page

    Cover to cover, both endings, before anything is made.

  4. Bedtime: the book glows on a phone while a parcel waits for Diwali
    4

    Read, listen, gift or print

    Tonight on the phone, this Diwali in the post.

Many collections, one house

Every epic, every Purana, every saint, every festival, and why we do what we do. Every book cites the text it comes from.

Counts show the planned catalogue. Released editions vary.

Explore the full catalogue20 collections · all here to explore

Find a familiar face

Choose a character to explore their stories.

Collections to explore

Fifteen classics. Find your next story.

Story counts show the planned catalogue. Age groups apply to selected adaptations; released editions appear inside each collection.

Most loved this season

Personalise a book, or watch a title for the day it opens.

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.

  1. 0–3
    Pictures first. One line, maybe two.
    • 6 pages
    • 6–14 words a page
    • No questions, just pictures
    • One gentle ending
    Books for 0–3 →
  2. 4–6
    Two warm sentences a page.
    • 6 pages
    • 20–35 words a page
    • 1 little questions
    • Two endings
    Books for 4–6 →
  3. 7–12
    Early readers to chapter-book pace, the whole episode.
    • 10 pages
    • 40–120 words a page
    • 5 little questions
    • Two endings
    Books for 7–12 →
  4. 13–17
    The text itself, with its questions kept in.
    • 12 pages
    • 150–220 words a page
    • 5 little questions
    • Two endings
    Books for 13–17 →
  5. 18+
    Exact and explicit, as the original has it.
    • 12 pages
    • 180–260 words a page
    • No questions, just pictures
    • One gentle ending
    Books for 18+ →
Same story. Different worlds.

Go on. Play with the possibilities.

Slide through art inspired by India and imagination. Every style keeps the story intact.

45 designs to explore · Find your favourite in the studio →

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Warm cinematic illustration, growing with every age

23 languages. One story that sounds like home.

Choose the mother tongue your family shares. See this page in its native script, then hear it read aloud in the language you selected.

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Suno Katha+

Suno Katha+ — the whole shelf, read to you

For the nights you are too tired to do the voices.

1,310 books, every age, English and Hindi. One family plan.

  • Storyteller read-to-me in your chosen language
  • Audiobooks with both endings
  • Three little questions after each story
  • Badges and a reading shelf for each child
  • Up to four children, one house
  • A weekly letter to a parent
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  • The first story in every series, free to read
  • Every shelf to browse, every page to preview
  • Make a katha at the desk, on your device
  • One child profile
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All Books

Every story on the shelf, read and heard, all year.

$79/year$159
  • 1,310 books: every Panchatantra and Ramayana story
  • Read to you in English and Hindi
  • An edition for every age, from two to grown-up
  • New stories join as they are released
  • Up to four children, one price

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Our 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.

How we keep it safe and true →

See it at home

Four little films of families reading. Made with AI to show the moments we build for; the real reviews are on the reviews page.

AI-made showcase film
A bedtime katha in Hindi, on Mummy's lap
AI-made showcase film
Dada and Aarav meet little Hanuman
AI-made showcase film
Two children, two endings, one vote
AI-made showcase film
Diwali night, a book under the diyas

These films are AI-made showcases, not customer footage.

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.

Read together tonight

A katha for the day

Festival mornings, birthdays, a new baby in the house.

A little child celebrates a birthday with parents and grandmother
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.

Story coming soon · Explore the celebration below

Preview 1 of 3

Find your occasion

For whom
My child Grandchild Niece or nephew A friend's child The whole family
Let them pick the hero
A gift card, sent by email on the day you choose.

This month's festivals — October

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.

Navratri

Why Do We Dance Garba?

A guide to the celebration

Nine nights honouring the goddess Durga and her many forms, building to her victory over the buffalo-demon Mahishasura.

Story coming soon · Explore the celebration below

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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.”
Priya S. · San Jose · Aarav, 4Early-family feedback
“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.”
Rohan & Neha · Pune · Meera, 6Early-family feedback
“Beside the hero, not as the god. I did not know how much I needed someone to say that until I read it.”
Kavitha R. · London · Veer, 3Early-family feedback
“The buttons are big enough for my finger. That is all I ask of a phone.”
Dadaji Suresh · Jaipur · Anaya, 5Early-family feedback

Every family has a storyteller.

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Give them a story to keep.

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Gifts

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Questions parents ask

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One letter before each festival

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