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From the Panchatantra – Four Friends

This is a story from the Panchatantra on the value of friendship. It is from the chapter ‘Mitralabha’ or Gaining friends.

Always be friendly with your neighbours

Long long ago in the forest of Swetharanya, there lived a two hawks. They had recently migrated to this forest from another forest as  humans had begun to inhabit that forest in which they lived earlier. Here, they had built their nest on a tall tree by the side of the river Swetha Pushkarini. There […]

The talkative Tortoise

This is a tale from the Jatakas. Once upon a time in northern India , there was a small pond near which lived a tortoise He  was a very talkative tortoise and would pick a conversation with anyone who came near the pond. One day two beautiful young wild ducks named came to the pond. […]

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