Once upon a time, during the time of the dinosaurs, there was huge flying dinosaur bird called Gabella. She was a very tempestuous bird, who always wanted her way. Fed up with her, the dinosaur Witch Aribantan turned Gabella into the round sun. But...

Magnificent Makhna is a magnificent children's book written by Aravind Krish Bala, illustrated by Sandeep K. Luis and published by Tulika, Chennai. This is the story of the tuskless elephant Moorthy whose pictures hangs on the walls of people of the...

When was the last time you climbed a tree and spoke to a bird? In this painting Sheeba is talking to Munmun a bird and they enjoy a quiet chat atop a tree. The painting has a folkartish touch to it. Lines and semicircles make up the body of the bird...

"Meanwhile, the roots of the very first seed went deeper and deeper into the heart of the mountain" I first heard the Mountain and the Bird story many years ago in a storytelling performance by Geeta Ramanujam. This was long before storytelling...

- The origin of the word Ganapathi is attributed to the Vedic God Brahmanaspati - In the Vajasneyi Smiriti, Vinaka first appears as the remover of obstacles and he is appointed to this task by Brahma and Rudra - His mount the rat is connected night...

Auspicious beginnings, your forte - Gananayaka. The world stops to wonder at your dance of joy. Remover of obstacles - you remove all problems - Vignaraja The child of Parvathi and Shiva, you have as your shaktis Siddhi and Buddhi. The gods and...

Sandhya Rao's "Busy Busy Grand-Ant", starts on a humorous note. The first verse ends, "you know how ant queues never end." The book works like travel quiz where the Grand-Ant asks of her brood to recognise all the places she visited based on the...

“Nani, tell us a story,” pestered Moni and Natasha. “Once upon a time Sand was very sad. He didn’t have any friends to play with. The Magician of Moor came and tried to cheer Sand up. He took a casket of clay in his hand and mixed it finely using a...

Once upon a time there was a fish that wanted to fly. It asked many birds to teach her how to fly. A pair of doves took pity on the fish and explained to her that flying was something that innately came to birds and could not be taught. The fish...