This link arrived as a forward on an old friends' WhatsApp group. On their YouTube channel, a desi guy from Mumbai, and his American wife, living in St Louis, USA, are reading children's story books, sentence by sentence — in English and in Hindi. These simple tales for kids, animatedly narrated by Vikas and Kait Sharma have my kids immediately hooked.

The couple who go by the screen name Mr & Mrs Sharma, have day jobs. Vikas is a software consultant and his wife is a special education teacher for children in kindergarten to grade five. The idea for a bilingual bedtime project stemmed from Kait creating e-learning plans for her students during the lockdown. Since there are several Indian families at the school she teaches, she felt that such bilingual videos would offer a suitable mix of cultures and make American classics accessible to foreigners.