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3/21/2024
A Poem on International Poetry Day
Remeber, April is National Poetry Month. We'll be posting quite a fe w poems written by our staff and students during the month. How about you? Would you like to be part of this journey? Mail us your poems or tag us when you post them.

01/01/2024

The Lekha Team wishes you all the best this year!

01/01/2023

At Lekha Ink, we'd like to thank you all for your support and wish you all the best this year.
We wish you to see new worlds as you delve into the pages of new books. We look forward to helping you create new worlds for others to see themselves in.

05/07/2021

Lekha Ink is donating for Covid 19 Relief in India!
A total of 24 books and 10 magazine subscriptions published by Lekha Ink will be auctioned alongside other books this weekend.

Books are:
Set of five (5) picture books: Chirpy the Chimunk, Dragon Carousel,The Mystery of the Missing Iguana, Laugh With Dinosaurs and Chandamama. - Two sets available
Set of (4)books for middle grades: Journey in Time, Sassy Divas, The Price of Being Ashley Rich, and Clarity. - Two sets available
Set of two (2) e-picture books downloadable on Kindle: Pikoo Peacock and Misha Comes Home. - Two sets available (These have been categorized as picture books for convenience)
One (1) Photo book for the family: Gajaraj (This book has been categorized as non-fiction for adults for convenience - Two sets available
An annual subscription to our children's magazine, Young Wordsmiths. - Ten subscritions available.

Authors of books donated: Ruchira Khanna, Mona Ahuja, Radhika Raikar, Yalda Alexandra Saii, K. Dai, Novella Genelza,Radhika Raikar, Aashka Pandya, Tyler Sadoff, and Jyoti Nath Yelagalawadi

Lekha Publishers is one of the few publishing companies in the world that promises to publish quality books written by children & new and upcoming authors. To this end, we guide and mentor our authors towards their goal.

Books for hope is a Kidlit communtity of started by authors in the US with South Asian roots.

The donations will reach India through UNICEF
Please buy our books and share this post to help us send much needed help to India.

BACKGROUND: The second wave of the Covid 19 pandemic has become a humanitarian crisis in India. There is currently great need and suffering and it is critical to get help on the ground as soon as...

03/09/2020

Peeku Peacock is here! Download your copy and enjoy.

Radhika Rajesh Raikar's first picture book is a lovely fable, which puts the spotlight on the uniqueness of each child through a casual discussion between mother and child.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B085G1DKRC?pf_rd_r=Y3K4TRCWQDTT06KJAYPY&pf_rd_p=ab873d20-a0ca-439b-ac45-cd78f07a84d8

Pikoo Peacock -a fable in verse, spotlights an enlightening chat betweena mother and child.Pikoo peacock whines about not being able to fly as high as an eagle. Hismother, Sukoo admits to the obvious differences between birds. But shewisely points out their unique similarities and helps Pikoo und...

09/03/2019

Published and Released!

Gajaraj, our first book for the family audience was released today on the auspicious Hindu Festival of Ganesh Chaturthi.

This book is about how one man's faith made him learn the art of sculpting idols of Lord Ganesha and how his wife chose to honor his memory. Come, dive into the colorful pages of this one of a kind photo book and learn about the legend of Lord Ganesha.

Flip through the colorful pages of Gajaraj. Buy it! Gift it!

https://www.lekhaink.com/product/gajaraj/

Sculptures and photographs by Rajesh Raikar Hardcover, 96 pages, full color ISBN: 978-1-937675-21-9

06/30/2019

Thank You Grand Theatre Center for the Arts for displaying books published by Lekha Publishers, LLC.
We will be rotating display material on this shelf to showcase work written by students of Lekha Writing Center, staff of Lekha Ink, and authors guided by Lekha Ink. This rotation consists of books by Aashka Pandya,Gabriela Begun, Ghazal Sajeev, Jyoti Yelagalawadi Novella Genelza, Tyler Sadof, and Yalda Alexandra Saii.

*Not all books are available for purchase. Those still in print can be purchased at www.lekhaink.com

04/21/2018

NEW FROM LEKHA - Young Wordsmiths - a quarterly magazine available online and in print.
The First issue includes stories by some of the award winners of the competitions held by Toka box and Lekha Publishers.
https://issuu.com/lekhaink/docs/youngwordsmith

Lekha Ink, Corp. online magazine.

02/18/2018

Author, publisher, mentor- Jyoti Nath Yelagalawadi from Lekha Writing Center will join us for the second straight year at She will discuss ways to encourage writers to think responsibly. Join us Sunday Feb 25 at the Children Literature Symposium- Early bird tickets now available here - http://bit.ly/2lXUNd6

07/15/2017

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05/12/2017

Get ready for a summer's worth of reading and writing with Lekha's line of educational activity books. http://lekha.co/edu-books

03/15/2017

Lekha teaches summer writing camps in the SF Bay Area for students in grades K-12.

03/10/2017

Join our sister company, Lekha Writing Center, for fun writing camps this summer around the SF Bay Area!

02/17/2017

Love this...

In your kids' library, every book has its place, right? We love these easy and creative kids' books organization ideas that you can pull off in a weekend.

02/16/2017

02/15/2017

Aashka Pandya, a Lekha Writing Center student and Lekha Publishers author, brings us her wonderful new film "All Too Well."

Shot and edited over six weeks. Starring Natalie Lin and Reno Laserna Production Assistants: Moksh Chitkara - camera, lighting, color correction Justin Leung...

02/10/2017

When children's books are more diverse, everyone benefits.

What stories can teach children about the world.

01/20/2017

Tyler Sadoff was inspired to become a writer shortly after reading Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance series and wrote his first novel, A Journey in Time, when he was only ten years old, during a creative writing summer camp held by Lekha Writing Center. http://lekha.co/tsadoff

Tyler Sadoff is a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy books and movies, and enjoys writing stories in those genres.

01/12/2017

Lekha publishes young authors! Ghazal Sajeev wrote and illustrated Stuck in Space at the age of eight and Saving Santa one year later. Learn more at http://lekha.co/gsajeev

Ghazal Sajeev wrote and illustrated Stuck in Space at the age of eight and Saving Santa one year later. She is an artistic and creative young girl who enjoys drawing, painting, reading, and writing…

12/19/2016

Young readers will be enthralled by twenty-six uncommon dinosaurs, whose names each start with a different letter of the alphabet. http://lekha.co/dinosaurs

12/18/2016

Inspire your children with books written *by* kids for kids. http://lekha.co/by-kids-for-kids

12/17/2016

When a girl rescues a baby chipmunk, will she be able to take care of it successfully by herself? http://lekha.co/chirpy

12/17/2016

Bring imagination to life with picture books that young readers are sure to adore! http://lekhaink.com