Our Katha · 001

A word my grandmother used, borrowed for our celebrations.

கதை

kathai · story

Stories told while cooking, half-finished, argued over, and repeated wrong the next year. Those are the ones that stick.

Ranjani hosting in the backyard, holding a bowl of food

The actual studio: a backyard, a bedsheet, and a toddler with opinions.

Katha Clicks started as a camera roll problem. I had thousands of photos of celebrations I'd made for my kids, our friends and our neighbors, and no words for any of them. The images looked nice. They didn't say anything.

So I started writing the part around the picture. What we argued about. What we forgot to put on the list. What the aunties felt was "too much." Which tradition I kept, which one I quietly dropped, and how it felt to do that in a country my parents didn't grow up in but I did.

Turns out the story was the product. The party was just the excuse to make one.

Now the work is split four ways. I write. I design celebrations for other families. I make content reels, which is the part I love most. And I bring mothers into rooms together, because the loneliest part of early motherhood is not the baby. It's the calendar.

What we believe

Story first

If a celebration can't be described in a sentence, it isn't finished yet.

Culture as furniture

Ours isn't decorative. It's load-bearing, and everyone is invited to sit on it.

Enough is a design goal

We stop early on purpose. The room should feel made, not merchandised.

Start with the stories