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A delightfully entertaining and instructive collection of folktales. Here, you will find the prince who breathes life into the kind and his family after they are turned into statues. There is the courageous kind who kills the blood-thirsty demon.
These are the stories that have inspired generation after generation of children who grow up to pass them onto their own children. For thousand of years, story telling in India assumed the form of sruti (hearing) and smriti (memorizing). Every evening, children fathered round the knees of grandparents to hear stories of yore, stories which made them round-eyed with wonder and stories which knit the values of Indian society into the fabric of their lives. The ...