Author, artist and illustrator Mamathi Chari is an erudite, multilingual thinker and world traveller living in Chennai. Although her Master’s degree is in English, she writes across languages and genres, for all ages. She is especially renowned for the elegance of her Tamil and English. Her works appear both under her name, Mamathi Chari, and Maya Spark—a Mamathi Chari avatar. Mamathi is a warrior for animals and earth, a sportsperson and a musician. She is ever an activist against child abuse and domestic violence; an enabler of education; an organ, skin, limb donor; and a stem cell, blood, and hair donor.
She is a pioneer television host, an incidental model and actor, a celebrity radio jockey, a poet, the creator of Gettikutti™, Makkukutti™, and the creator and curator of Kural Mudhal®. Till a decade and a half ago, she also was a screen producer, director, writer, ad-film maker and entrepreneur. Books published so far. 2022 – The Making of Heroes. Book 1 of the series The Adventures of Zoe and Scruffy Publishers, Reado Junior, an imprint of Readomania Publishing 2023 – Kuttigal Kural. Book 1, the Thirukkural series in Tamil Publishers, Hindu Tamil Thisai, the Tamil imprint of The Hindu The Summer of Heroes. Book 2 of the series The Adventures of Zoe and Scruffy Publishers, Reado Junior, an imprint of Readomania Publishing 2024 – Fury of the Forgotten. Book 1 of the series The ExtraOrdinaries Publishers, Readomania Publishing Kural for Kids. Book 1 of the Thirukkural series in English Publishers, Reado Junior, an imprint of Readomania Publishing KuttigaL KuRaL. Book 2, the Thirukkural series in Tamil Publishers, Hindu Tamil Thisai, the Tamil imprint of The Hindu Mamathi has bequeathed royalties from the sale of her books in perpetuity to the Blue Cross of India, The Spastics Society of Tamil Nadu and the Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre (WRRC), Karnataka. She has recently written works that are under consideration for inclusion in school curriculum. In the regular world, her upcoming release this year is a an illustrated series for early readers.
