A post to collect all the Indian audio/video stuff that is available for the kids. Also some of the things may be very very common/easily available in India for e.g. the Meghdhanush audio that we used for the last Diwali party, lot of people from the group had the same audio cassette’s/C.D’s . Public Libraries also seem to carry lot of these things nowadays, so if you know of something please post here. KV’ites please add on to the list 🙂
1. Meghdhanush – www.touchingtunes.com
2. Panchtantra VCD’s – Animated short stories, some available in santaclara county library.
3. Baby Hindustani DVD’s – http://www.babyhindustani.com/, Similar to the baby einstein collection
4. Tales of Akbar & Birbal – Animated stories Available in SantaClara County library
5. The adventures of Tenali – Available in SCC library
6. Shethia Audio Video Lmtd has a wide range of VCD’s/DVD’s for kids/adults. They also have produced animated movie on “Krishna” . Visit http://www.shethia.com/new/login.asp for information about detailed product list.
7. Animated movie on “Hanuman” – Available at Indian movie rental places.
8. Laddoo the elephant and other products by meeramasi. www.meeramasi.com
Karadi Tales.
karaditales.com
We have 2 audio CDs from this company. Their marketing line is “Why should Kids learn English nursery rhymes which have no relevance today. Why not learn Indian nursery rhymes which have situations tailored for the Indian child and which he/she can related to”.
Kairavi loves some of the songs in these CDs and if everything goes fine, soon we should be able to upload the songs or circulate the CDs among those that want to make a copy of it. Will let you all know.
I am not sure about Blockbuster but Netflix – http://www.netflix.com has collection of DVDs.
Stumbled upon this website – Fun N Learn C.D’s for learning languages (hindi, marathi, gujarati)
http://www.matrubhasha.com