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Ambalappuzha and the Chess connection – Janmashtami special

This is the story behind the origin of the Paal Payasam (rice kheer) as Prasad in the Ambalappuzha temple. Read on to find the connection betwen Chess and the Payasam!

The Legend of Deepavali

This is the legend behind the celebration of Deepavali in the south of India. Read on to know the story…

Kuroor Amma and her little Krishna

This is the story of a saint from Kerala who considered Lord Krishna her son. Read on to know more…

Purandaradasa- Sangeeta Pitamaha

Dear Readers, it’s been over a month since my last story. Here I am once again, and this time I am going to narrate the story of Saint Purandaradasa. Before we go to the story, let us see some historical facts. This saint lived in the period 1480 AD (or 84) to 1564 AD. He […]

How Krishna came to stay at Udupi

Udupi is a town on the west coast of India and is situated in the state of Karnataka. Udupi is associated with Lord Krishna just as Puri is identified with Lord Jagannath or Mount Kailash with Lord Shiva. But it is interesting to note that Krishna has been residing here from the thirteenth century. Before […]

Little Gopal And The Cowherd

Greetings to my readers! With Janmashtami round the corner, this time I am posting a story of Krishna. Long ago, in the present state of Odisha, there lived a poor widow Subala, with her young son. Her husband had died when the son was about a year old and she had no relatives to support […]

What you want is always not what you need!

This is a rather philosophical story which I am going to narrate. We have come across many situations in our life where we want something but end up getting something else. In India, mostly, we reconcile ourselves that a particular thing had to happen that way and so it happened.This attitude is sometimes even beneficial […]

The Story of the Syamantaka Gem

The story of the Syamantaka Gem is from the Srimad Bhagavatham which again contains a lot of stories on the life of Lord Krishna. In Dwaraka, there lived a Yadava nobleman by name Satrajit. He was an ardent devotee of Lord Surya and propitiated Lord Surya regularly with great devotion. One day Lord Surya was […]

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