A folk tale from Ancient India…
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This is a story from the Panchatantra on the value of friendship. It is from the chapter ‘Mitralabha’ or Gaining friends.
A tale from the Panchatantra highlighting the benefits of gaining good friends…
Dear Readers, It’s a long time since my last story… Now, I bring to you, a folk tale from my own state, Tamilnadu. Long long ago in the present state of Tamilnadu, there lived a young man by name Perumal. Perumal was extremely intelligent but very lazy and had fallen into bad company in his […]
It’s a long time since I wrote on Akbar and Birbal and so I am giving a short and sweet tale of Birbal’s sharp intelligence. Once, there was some argument between Akbar and Birbal over some issue and Akbar shouted at Birbal and said, “Don’t ever show your face to me again!”. Poor Birbal did […]
My dear readers, I am glad to inform you that my blog has completed four years and a hundred stories. My heartfelt thanks to all of you. Now, here is a folktale for you from Karnataka. In olden days in a village in Karnataka there lived a lad by name Bhimanna. As his name suggested, […]
Wishing all my readers a Very Happy Deepavali today!!! (29/10/2016) Once upon a time in the ancient city of Varanasi, there lived a merchant by name Somayya. He was a very shrewd merchant and made good money by being very prudent in his dealings. Somayya had three sons Ganesh, Mahesh and Ramesh. He brought them […]
This is a folk tale but I know not from which part of India. Once upon a time, in ancient India, there lived a merchant Ramu, who had a donkey named Bhola. Ramu was a very kind fellow who took good care of Bhola. He fed him well with green grass everyday (which many donkey […]
This is a folk tale from Tamil Nadu based on which there is a proverb “Aanaikkum Paanaikkum sari” meaning Elephant and Pot are equal. Long long ago, in a village in Tamil Nadu, there lived a wealthy oil merchant by name Ramu. In addition to his oil business, he owned an elephant which he lent […]
This is the story from the chapter Loss of Gains of the Panchatantra. Readers may refer to the background guide for more info on this. “One who remains cool in the face of adversity, like the monkey in the water (in this story) overcomes all his problems” – is the saying with which the story […]