The kadhai of Kadhai Osaiĭeepika, who was working along with her brother in an entrepreneurial digital marketing venture, took a break in 2019 when the company merged with a bigger organisation. "My mother encouraged reading and my father Varadharajan is a writer who wrote for Tamil magazines like Kalki and Kalaimagal," says Deepika who would always read Tamil and English books in parallel. While Deepika had to permanently close Jhoola this June due to COVID-19 and the lockdown, she says that her love for reading comes from her parents. So at Jhoola, children were encouraged to pick up books of their liking and I would often read to them as well,” Deepika adds. “I strongly believe that the habit of reading for pleasure should be inculcated in children very young. Here, children were encouraged to pick up essential life skills, with reading holding a top spot. Deepika now runs Kadhai Osai, a storytelling platform on which she regularly shares narrations of Tamil stories written by authors like Kalki, La Sa Ramamritham, among others.ĭeepika who quit an IT job to teach children, started a one-of-a-kind activity centre in 2016 called Jhoola in Chennai.
In that sense, I’d say this was the nudge for me to look for Tamil audio books and think about them seriously,” Deepika says. It became an addiction, and I could not go a day without listening to it.
But, in a dramatic turn of events, she soon became addicted to audio books.
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