It is tough to be a famous junior and more so when the senior happens to be Akbar, the Mughal-e-Azam. This was the tragedy of Jahangir. It was a personal traged...
Life is unfair: the virtuous Kannagi deserves a loving husband, but selfish beauties and foolish kings combine to rob her of happiness. Her patience snaps, even...
Starting off as the ruler of tiny Thaneshwar, Harsha (17th century AD) rose to become the powerful monarch of the kingdom of kanauj. He avenged the wicked assas...
Naseeruddin Hoodja lived centuries ago but the stories told about him have a timeless appeal. Some of them make you laugh, others make you think and a few leave...
Dick Whittington, three times the Lord Mayor of London, owed his fortune to a cat. In this endearing Jataka tale, which preceded the popular English folktale by...
Ridiculed for his idealism and love for truth and scoffed at for his simplicity and humility, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi proved himself to be no ordinary mortal...
Panchatantra (Five Chapters) in Sanskrit is perhaps the oldest collection of stories in the world and has been translated into more than 50 languages. Each of i...
When the king saw a strapping lad astride the aged shoulders of his guru, he knew something was amiss. Soon he realized that, if young Raman was around, it was ...
Humor, Wit, Romance, Adventure and Myth! Read these stories from the Kathasaritasagara - The chosen Bridegroom Hamsavali Shridatta Shringabhuja Pataliputra.
If you love Suppandi and his rib-tickling antics, you have it all here! And if you are meeting Suppandi for the first time… get ready to have your sides ...