The popular story of the grandma who sold vadai now has an interesting twist. Perhaps one of the most narrated, reproduced, and illustrated Tamil children’s stories of all time, it is now available as an interactive boardbook. Agan Adhigaram, a publishing startup by Chengalpattu-based husband-and-wife duo Ramya Karthikeyan and D Sethuram, has brought out this story with push, pull, and slide mechanisms aimed at helping little fingers develop the pincer grasp. The publishing house recently brought out its second title I, also an interactive boardbook.
Agan is the result of Ramya and Sethuram’s search for Tamil boardbooks for their son, who is now three. “We have been reading to him from the time he was a baby, but found that most good quality boardbooks for children were in English,” says 32-year-old Ramya, who is an automobile engineer. She and her husband Sethuram, who is good at drawing, hence came up with something on their own for their child.
