Dantapuram, 1070 CE The boy was on the run. His father had just been slain. His enemy was none other than his uncle the Powerful Chola king of Tanjore. They had killed his father Rajaraja, the king of Kalinganagar. Only a decade ago Rajaraja the king of Kalinga had attacked the Chola empire, looted theContinue reading “Raandi Pua Ananta.”
Category Archives: Stories Retold
Jagat Seth: the Bankers of the World
Murshidabad Surya Mishra becomes Murshid Quli Khan I don’t know when Surya Narayan Mishra, a Brahmin boy from Deccan and Manik Chand, a Jain Marwari boy from Nagaur, Rajasthan met at the Bengal city of Dacca (Dhaka). It was sometime at the turn of the 17th century. No calendar date had been assigned to theirContinue reading “Jagat Seth: the Bankers of the World”
The Market Drayton Effect
Charles was a worried man as he alighted at the Market Drayton. Market Drayton was a small market town in the north Shropshire, England, close to Cheshire. In 1245, King Henry III granted a charter for a weekly Wednesday market. This gave the town its current name. A visibly worried Charles had no reason toContinue reading “The Market Drayton Effect”
Toba Tek Singh
This story by Saadat Hasan Manto is said to be the most powerful satire on the Idea of Partition of India and Pakistan. BBC has included it in its 100 stories that shaped our world. along with legends like Shakespeare, Kafka and Virginia Woolf. “A classic short story that translates the trauma of partition throughContinue reading “Toba Tek Singh”
The dream
In Zhuang Zi there lived an ancient philosopher. His name was Zhuang Tzu. Zhuang Tzu once dreamed that he was a butterfly, flitting and fluttering around, happy, and doing as he pleased. Of course, as a butterfly, he did not know that he was Zhuang Tzu. All of a sudden, he awoke and foundContinue reading “The dream”
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