Manisha Shelley Kaura – The Author of  Vocab Tunes

Manisha and her Father

The creation of Vocab Tunes started with Manisha’s love of words and the annoyance she felt toward the way her school was trying to teach English vocabulary to her and her classmates.

She asked her father, S. R. Kaura MD., for help. They began to study the language of English together. At first, the goal was to make sense of her homework but quickly turned into a passion.

Manisha says, “We started intensively studying both etymology and the languages themselves, and we acquired excellent reading and writing efficiency in both ancient Greek and Latin. Then we were able to compile several manuscripts. There were just notes. My impressions as a student, and his impressions as a parent. So for us, it was mainly an intensive reading and studying process.”

From that process, and many years of work, Manisha’s first set of books, Rockin Root Words were published. It is no surprise that she went on to Ohio State University with a linguistics scholarship.

What started as a daughter and father studying English together has evolved into a company in which the daughter’s the CEO and dad’s the president. And, what some might consider drudgery, Dr. Kaura cherishes as a family memory. “We worked on the book for more than 10 years—vacations, holidays and weekends.”

Manisha’s books have been successful. From receiving the Gary Lynch – Quality, Excellence and Design award, to being translated in 4 languages.