My First Letters
From Apple to Zip: 52 everyday words with real photos, many showing a child doing the action.
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Photo of Deepika and VarnamA warm, real moment: reading a Chiqoo book together
Our story
Before Chiqoo, there was Varnam.
Deepika was an animator. She spent her days giving life to characters, one frame at a time. Then Varnam came into her life, and life asked her for a different kind of art.
Chapter one
The day the plan changed
When Varnam was diagnosed with autism, Deepika put down her drawing tablet and became his full-time mother. Therapy sessions, new routines, long nights, and small wins that nobody else noticed. She noticed every one.
Chapter two
Holding every thread
A 13-year-old son growing into his own world. In-laws whose health needs daily care. A husband at work, a home to run, meals, medicines and appointments. Deepika held every thread, and still found the energy each night to sit with Varnam and a picture book.
Chapter three
The gap she couldn't ignore
The books she found were loud. Bright cartoon colours, busy patterns, objects Varnam had never seen. He looked at the colours, not the words. And the pages tore within weeks. So the artist in her woke up. She began making her own pages, with real photos of the real things in his world: his cup, his fan, his Diwali.
Chapter four
Into his world
Slowly, page by page, Varnam began to connect the pictures to the things around him. And Deepika began to see something bigger than a book: a way to meet children where they are, with patience instead of pressure.
"We keep trying to pull our children into our world. What if we stepped into theirs?"
That one question became Chiqoo, and the reason behind unconditional love*.
Today
From one family to yours
Chiqoo is made at our dining table and tested by our most honest critic, Varnam. Deepika believes the world becomes a better place the moment we start to understand our children's world. Every book is a small step towards that world: for her son, for your child, and for every parent who is tired but never gives up.
If you are reading this late at night after a long day: you are doing better than you think. Start with one page tonight.
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