Insight from the field
Years of hands-on community work across India and abroad, building real relationships and real understanding through direct, on-the-ground experience.
A change agency for narrative and experience
A journey through stories.
Kathayanam builds narratives, communications, and immersive experiences for organisations working across the social sector, grounded in grassroots work across India, with engagements spanning Asia-Pacific, Africa, and Europe.
Our track record
Built by a team with experience delivering impactful stories, narratives, campaigns, and immersions across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and Africa, alongside deep grassroots work in India, reaching millions of people.
8+ years300+ projectsMillions reached4 regions
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The gap we fill
We build the narrative, the craft, and the experience. As one continuous piece of work.
Most partners can do one of these well: build a narrative, produce something beautiful, or run a great programme. Kathayanam does all three, together, for the same story.
Craft that travels
Documentary, campaign, and event-grade production built to be watched, shared, and remembered long after it is made.
Experiences that move people
Immersive journeys, retreats, and programmes designed the way a change agency designs them, for outcomes people carry with them.
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What we do
Five ways we work with you.
From first strategy to the story people remember. Start with one, or move through all five.
Strategy & Narrative
Figuring out what story you are telling, and why it matters.
Craft & Production
Films, series, and campaigns made to be watched and shared.
Ongoing Storytelling
A steady hand on your content, month after month.
Immersive Experiences
Retreats and programmes that put people inside the story.
Projects on the Ground
Field research and delivery, backed by real fieldwork.
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Stories we have told
Real people. Real places. Real impact, told well.
Documentary series
Theeram
Three coastal Kerala episodes, Thiruvananthapuram, Chellanam, and Alappuzha, on the lives artificial construction and climate change reshape.
16,000+ viewers
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Short film
Avocado
A climate-storytelling love story from Kottayam, of two lives connecting despite everything working against them.
530,000+ digital views
Urban infrastructure
The Toilet Repair Café
A mobile sanitation-repair unit turned public engagement project, designed and delivered end to end in Chennai.
Project design & management
Art & psychosocial support
Njalidam Art Exhibition
50+ art pieces from mental-health art-therapy workshops run as part of Wayanad landslide relief efforts.
Creative intervention, 2024
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Immersions & experiences
Some stories are not told. They are travelled.
From leadership retreats to campus immersions, we build experiences that turn observers into participants, wherever the story is actually happening.
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Who it is for
Wherever the story needs to travel.
Corporates & CSR teams
CSR spend, told as stories people actually read.
Foundations & funders
A storytelling partner wherever your programme already works.
Government & agencies
Good programmes deserve to be seen. We help make that happen.
NGOs & institutions
Storytelling and social media capacity you do not have to build in-house.