Children's books, and one made just for yours
Inara Library makes picture books for small children. Some are bilingual, so a child growing up far from home keeps the language her family speaks. There are folk rhymes, alphabet colouring books, and custom books with your own family drawn into every page.
Festival books
Holi and Diwali, written as a rhyme a small child joins in with.
Look →Punjabi folk rhymes
The rhymes and lullabies Punjabi families already know by heart.
Look →Colouring books
Whole alphabets to colour in, one letter to a page, in six languages.
Look →Custom family books
Your own family drawn into the pictures. Made once, for one child.
Look →On the shelf
Holi Is Here
6 languages · Punjabi, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Nepali, English
Diwali Is Here
6 languages · Punjabi, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Nepali, English
Punjabi folk rhymes
4 books
Punjabi
ਅੱਲੜ ਬੱਲੜ ਬਾਵੇ ਦਾ
Allar Ballar Bave Da
by Satbir Malhi
Ages 2 to 6 · 24 pages
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Colouring books
7 books
Punjabi
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਪੈਂਤੀ
Punjabi Alphabet Coloring Book
by Satbir Malhi
Ages 2 to 6 · 37 pages
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Hindi
हिंदी वर्णमाला
Hindi Alphabet Coloring Book
by Satbir Malhi
Ages 2 to 6 · 45 pages
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Gujarati
ગુજરાતી મૂળાક્ષરો
Gujarati Alphabet Coloring Book
by Satbir Malhi
Ages 2 to 6 · 46 pages
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Marathi
मराठी मुळाक्षरे
Marathi Alphabet Coloring Book
by Satbir Malhi
Ages 2 to 6 · 46 pages
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Nepali
नेपाली वर्णमाला
Nepali Alphabet Coloring Book
by Satbir Malhi
Ages 2 to 6 · 45 pages
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Stories by Tanya Rawal
1 book
Made for one family
Your own family's book
Send us your family photos and we will make a custom version of this book, with your own child and your own family in the pictures.
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Send your photos
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Tell us the names
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Choose the language and the book
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We draw and print it
Free
Free colouring pages
Fifteen rangoli patterns and ten pictures of the things Holi is made of. Thick outlines for small hands, one picture to a page.
More books are coming
Inara Library started with two festival books because those are the ones I wrote for my own daughter. It did not stop there.
There are folk rhymes now, colouring books for six alphabets, and more coming. If there is a book you wish existed for your child, write to me and tell me. That is genuinely how the first one started.
Not for children
For grown-ups
Satbir also writes for adults. This is a different shelf, and it is deliberately at the bottom of the page.
Eleven Feet
A Novel of the Ranga Billa Case, the Crime That Taught Delhi to Be Afraid
by Satbir Malhi
A novel for adults. It is built on a real crime against two children in Delhi in 1978, and it is not for young readers.
Delhi, 26 August 1978. At dusk on a Saturday, a brother and sister are taken off the road into a stolen yellow Fiat. Inside fifteen minutes, two strangers see the struggle. One phones the police with the number off the back of the car. One goes after it on a scooter, loses it at a red light, and is told he has come to the wrong police station.
Everybody in India knows how this ends. Eleven Feet is the story of the three years and five months in between, told by one of the two men, from a cell eleven feet from the other.
A novel built on the record. The dates, the places, the evidence and the courts are as they were. What is invented is the inside of a man.