Bengali bedtime stories
your child will actually follow.
Bengali has one of the richest children’s literatures in the world. Almost none of it has been made into calm, ad-free audio a child can fall asleep to.
These stories are written for listening — the pace slow, the sentences short, the ending soft enough that nobody is jolted awake at the last line.
Every one can be read in বাংলা on screen or heard with the phone face-down. Personalised stories use your child's own name, taken from the phonetic spelling you enter on their profile rather than guessed at from the English one.
Nothing plays afterwards of its own accord, and there are no adverts anywhere in it. The story ends and the room stays quiet.
Real stories, in বাংলা.
A handful from the library, picked at random rather than for effect.
মালালা ইউসুফজাই: যে মেয়ে প্রতিটি শিশুর পক্ষে কথা বলেছিল
Malala Yousafzai: The Girl Who Spoke for Every Child
Extraordinary Women
নেলসন ম্যান্ডেলা: যে মানুষটি কখনো হাসি থামায়নি
Nelson Mandela: The Man Who Never Stopped Smiling
Values & Morals
হেলেন কেলার: সেই মেয়ে যে তার হৃদয়ে দেখে শিখেছিল
Helen Keller: The Girl Who Learned to See with Her Heart
Extraordinary Women
শ্রীনিবাস রামানুজন: যে ছেলে সংখ্যাকে ভালোবাসত
Srinivasa Ramanujan: The Boy Who Loved Numbers
Science & Discovery
আলবার্ট আইনস্টাইন: যে ছেলে প্রশ্ন করেছিল কেন
Albert Einstein: The Boy Who Asked Why
Science & Discovery
অ্যামেলিয়া ইয়ারহার্ট: একা উড়ে যাওয়া মেয়ে
Amelia Earhart: The Girl Who Flew Alone
Extraordinary Women
The library is not translated. It is narrated.
Bengali has one of the great children's literatures, and almost none of it exists as calm audio a child can fall asleep to. StoryVeda does not keep a small Bengali corner that fills up slowly. Choose Bengali on your child's profile and the narration for that story is made when you press play — half a minute or so, about the time it takes to settle — and then it plays through without a break.
Which is why nothing is held back. Every story in the library, across every kind, can be heard in Bengali tonight — including the ones added last week.
বাংলা on screen too
The words switch to Bengali script alongside the audio, for the child who is only just beginning to read them.
Said the way you say it
There is a phonetic field on the child profile. Fill it in and the narrator uses your pronunciation, not the one the English spelling suggests.
Two languages, one story
Bengali tonight and English tomorrow is the same story, the same illustrations, the same place in the series.
Grandparents tend to notice first. A child who has been hearing stories in Bengali starts answering in Bengali on the phone — not because anyone asked them to, but because the words are simply nearer to hand.
Not only stories.
Shlokas and prayers
A library of chants and guided breathing, each with the words transliterated and a plain-English meaning set beside them.
Gratitude, spoken
Three small questions before lights-out, answered aloud. You keep whatever they say.
In your own voice
Record yourself once and every story afterwards is read by you — from Kolkata, or eight time zones away from it.
Seven in total.
Siblings can each have their own — the profiles are separate.