Usha: We were just scribbling on social media. Once Uma Aparna asked us, “if we would like to write?” Today she is saying, “you have gone ahead.”

Vanaja: I have written on facebook. Now, I have got an award for a story I published with Pachyderm tales. I have got the friendship of Uma Aparna – it is a great friendship.

Usha: Writing has been a great help to us.

Vanaja: I, Ruckmani and Usha, we are publishing some books together. We will release 8 books in the next 2-3 months.

Usha : We want to read to children. We want them to read the Thirukural. We are presenting the Thirukural in story format.

Vanaja: We want to get together stories for children. We are doing it as a friendship also. We are writing about friendship also.

Usha: We used the Thirukural couplets to create easy content for children. We are creating nondetailed texts. We are also writing stories about elephants. Children like elephants a lot. How do elephants live? What does an elephant eat? Elephants are harmless and loved by children. To make children sleep all parents in Tamil Nadu will sing, ‘Annai Annai Ayaghar Annai.’

Usha: One of our stories goes – a small elephant saved and becomes a temple elephant. The stories of the child and the elephant as they grow up is parallelly traced.

We are documenting the stories of those who do good in society – celebrities, social workers, including Uma Aparna. We are covering stories of people in social service, education and healthcare.

People want these books. Parents want to read these books to children. Nondetailed books help children read.

Vanaja: These books are easy to carry and can be read in school. It reaches many people – school libraries, book fairs, reading for book fairs.

Usha: We are doing a book which contains writing from every continent. I wrote on Europe.

Usha: We are moving away from fiction towards children’s writing. Writing is very useful in making us feel productive.

We research and check google to ensure we no one has brought out books and content on the people we are writing about.

Rukmani: We are writing to take books to children. We want the Thirukural stories to reach small children.

Ruckmani: We want to write about how girls have come up and how they help society. We have written about their stories. We have written about Uma Aparna.