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Author: Nitin Kushalappa
Price: Rs 186-196
Genre: Folk tales /folk lore/Myths & Legends
Translations of folk songs and re tellings of folk tales across generations
A children’s book should satisfy 3 criteria.
- Easy, fluid language
- Suspension of disbelief aka rich imagination
- A moral of the story (or even 4 as in Bala Nagamma)
This collection of tales from the South India aka Dakshin Bharat ticks all the above. It’s a world where animals are often wiser than humans, where magic happens at the snap of a finger, and where each tale offers food for thought, much like our Sanskrit epic Panchtantra.
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