Rama Venkatraman

Myself - These Panchatantra stories I have written for children. There are more to follow , look out for more blogs from me .I think it is a wonderful way to share it with everyone and remain connected. Please feel free to tell your comments

The photos added here from the family album of myself, Venkat and Ravi, Raghu's travels
PREFACE

Panchatantra stories belong to that period of human history, which we presently group as mythological period. It is difficult to determine a time period for this. But easily their ancestry can be traced to 5000 yrs. It is fascinating to find human history as old as that bears many similarity to the present modern life. The characters, their reaction to human situation, the play of emotions joy, happiness, friendship, misfortune, greed, deceit all seems to get repeated through human history.

Many of the characterization is done with animals as center characters which further enchants an youngster giving a free reign to his imagination and fantasy. Woven in the stories are hard truths and basic morals, an impression of it in early life helps to make each a better individual.

The original stories had been in Sanskrit. About 150 yrs back it was for the first time translated in to English. The flavor of these stories than started spreading through out the globe. As it was getting translated the authors had taken the liberty to alter the settings keeping the essence in tact.The verses presented in these stories are from the book of Arthur W.Ryder who had translated it from Sanskrit.

Here this work tries to do precisely that. In this age of visual media children’s fascination for written word is taking a back seat. However written word has the capacity to take the child to a realm giving him a peaceful enjoyment at the same time enriching for the life ahead. Aiming at this the stories has been written in a colorful and imaginative style taking the child to different regions and different settings. The stories will also help to improve a child’s word skill and describing capacities.

The stories are designed to present day children with more mature vocabulary and increased uptake in more contemporary settings.

Hope the children as well the elders will enjoy these stories and keep in tact the literary and imaginative part of the personality which is fast eroding in the present day technological living process.

RAMA VENKATARAMAN