Archit Verma, a doctoral
candidate at Princeton student holds a B.Tech in
BioMedical Engineering from Duke. He wrote the
Tara Sitara books when he was in eighth grade.
Archit developed techniques to learn Hindi on
his own in fourth grade when he discovered that
his peers from different cultural backgrounds
could speak/write their native tongue better
than he could. Our approach for writing the
books is a result of his insights into the
interests of students in the U.S.
Riya Verma is recipient of Michel
David-Weill scholarship, and studying for
Masters at Sciences Po in Paris. While learning
Hindi in sixth grade, she came up with the idea
of writing books for teaching Hindi to
children, and developed the concept of using the
character of Aamoo to teach basic Hindi sentence
structure and vocabulary to herself and her
peers.
Paridhi Verma holds a Masters
in Electrical Engineering and works for IBM. She
encouraged Archit and Riya to develop the
concept of these books. She is a freelance
artist and has illustrated the graphics in the
Sonu’s series.
Dinesh
Verma holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science
and works for IBM. He has augmented his family's
efforts to create these books with alphabet
books in other commonly used Indian languages
and Indian culture stories. He has also authored
ten books in the field of Computer Science.
