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Folktales are usually about the common person, someone like you and me, going through something. They are tied up with myths because they are originally passed down orally. We are passionate about preserving these stories that are rooted in our beautiful identity. 

 

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Tales from Gond Communtiy: The Night of the Glowing Sembar
On a rough July evening, with a calf’s cry in the air,  Thunder roared as dark clouds soared,...
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Tales from Nagaland: The Crab's Sideways-tilted walk
This story about a mother crab and her children is retold often from generation to generation among the...
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Tales from Kerala: The man who caught the leopard by the tail
Here is a very well-known saying in Malayalam, about catching a leopard by the tail. When anyone is in...
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Tales from Odisha: The Orphan Boy and the Bottle Gourd
Once there was an orphan boy. He had nobody of his own. No body cared for him. One day he went to play....
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Tales from Bihar: The Fear of Tiptipwa
Once upon a time, there lived an old woman in a forest. She possessed a horse which she loved like her...
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Tales from Uttar Pradesh: The Farmer and the Barber
THERE ONCE LIVED a farmer and a barber who were very good friends. One day it became time for both of...
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Tales from Tamil Nadu: A Mosquito's Story
A mosquito dressed up in her bangles, her finest silk sari and a long braid, and went around looking...
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Tales from Assam: Tejeemola
A merchant had two wives. The elder wife, who bore him a daughter named Tejeemola, died when Tejeemola...
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Tales from Nicobar: Why Trees Stopped Moving
Long, long ago when this world of ours was still young, trees could move from one place to another and...
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Tales from Madhya Pradesh: Mahua
Long ago a Gond leader was taking a stroll in the countryside. He was looking for something...
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Tales from Punjab: Kaka and Munni
In a gulmohar tree along the wheat fields in Punjab, Munni the sparrow, sat by her nest. She watched...
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Tales from Panchatantra: How the Bulbul became the King of the Birds
Once, there was a hornbill. He was the king of the birds, but he was mean and horrible, so they all hated...
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Tales from Arunachal Pradesh: The Origin of the Art of Weaving
The first to weave was a girl named Hambrumai. She had learned the art from God Matai. She would sit...
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Tales from Kerala: How the Coconut got its Face
Once, there was a young fisherman from Kerala who did not know how to catch fish. Even though he tried...
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Tales from Maharashtra: The Mouse's Share
A young couple had cleared a part of the forest near their home just before the monsoon, so that they...
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Tales from Madhya Pradesh: The Crow, the Crab and the Earthworm
Man has been concerned about how we came to be, how the universe was created and the source of all creation...
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Tales from Tripura: Chethuang (The Chhatim Tree)
Far away, far ago, in a little village perched on a hilltop, lived a jhumia family of five. They lived...
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Tales from Kashmir: The Laughing Rajma
In the great Himalayan ranges there once lived an old lady. One fine morning she was hungry and she started searching for something to cook. She found...
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Tales from Tamil Nadu: Killing the Monkey Husband
Six brothers lived with their little sister, who was lame. On her way to school one day, she played in...
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Tales from Lotha Naga Tribe: The Story of the Sun and the Moon
In the beginning of time, when the universe was still in its infancy, the Moon was as omnipotent as the...
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Tales from Rajasthan: The Banjaran and the Shepherd
Once upon a time, in a small town in Rajasthan, there lived a prosperous nomad by the name of Lakhi Banjara...
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Tales from Odisha: When Humans Had Tails
In eastern India, the Saura tribes of Odisha believed that there was a time when humans had tails. And these humans went everywhere, swishing their tails...
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Tales from Mizoram: Two Sisters Go In The Search Of Cucumber
Long long ago, two sisters together were searching for larger cucumbers in a field. The younger sister...
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Tales from Odisha's Bonda Tribe: A Wise Dog
Budusida, belongs to a village in Odisha called Mudulipada. One day, he went out for hunting with bows...
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Tales from Kerala: Parasurama
There are myths concerning the origins of Kerala. One such myth is the creation of Kerala by Parasurama,...
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Tales from Ladakh: The Fairy who cried Gems
There once was a boy who would go out looking for wood to cut and sell. One day as he was looking under...
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Tales from Nagaland: Kongliang Otsü
A long time ago, in the age of dreams and magical times, when the gods and humans resided side by side,...
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Tales from Santal Tribe: The Story of Kara and Guja
There were two brothers named Kara and Guja. Guja, who was the elder did the work at home, and Kara was...
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Tales from Chhattisgarh: The Secret of the Mirror
Along, long time ago, there lived a couple in their thirties in a small village around the Bastar region....
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Tales from West Bengal: Bonbibi, the Forest Godess
Bonbibi protects the forests and always lives with its people. She will never leave Sunderbans – she...
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Tales from Kumaon, Uttarakhand: Rajula - Malushashi
Rajula-Malushahi is an old medieval period love story and folklore of Uttarakhand. it describes love...
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Tales from Telangana: Bathukamma
In a peaceful village, there once lived seven brothers, each with a deep affection for their one younger...
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Tales from Kerala: The Rich Man and his vessels
A long time ago, there lived a rich man in a village in God’s Own State. His house was full of utensils...
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Tales from Bundelkhand: Aalha and Udal
Mahoba district is a part of Chitrakoot Division also known as Alha-Udal Nagari. This district was carved...
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Tales from Sindhi Folklore: Moriro
In good historical days, there was a village of fishermen known as Kalachi. The primary source of subsistence...
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Tales from Haryana: The Silver Well
There once lived a cunning and crafty man in a small village. He always used to make money through deceit....
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Tales from Mythology: Ekdanta Ganesha
We all know Ganesha as “Ekdanta”But ever wondered, Why? “Gurur Brahma Gurur VishnuGururDevo MaheshwarahaGuru...
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Tales from Ram Rajya: India or Bharat or why not both?
Once upon a time there was a princess called Indumati (the full moon). Her brother was Bhoja, king of...
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Tales about Raksha Bandhan: King Bali and Goddess Lakshmi
When Bali selflessly gave everything that Vishnu had asked for disguised as Vamana, Vishnu became very...
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Tales from Pondicherry: The Legend of the Pondicherry Mermaid
In the distant past, Pondicherry’s fishermen told tales of a mystic mermaid who lived in the Bay...
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Tales from Tamil Nadu: Tell it to the walls
A poor widow lived with her two sons and two daughter-in-law. All four of them scolded and ill-treated...
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Tales from Lakshadweep: Early History
Early history of Lakshadweep is unwritten. What now passes for history is based on various legends. Local...
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Tales from Goa: Village of Wise Fools
Moira is a village in the district of Bardez in Goa. It lies a few miles away from Mapuça, the capital...
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Tales from Bhagavad Gita: Kalki
This Basholi style Pahari miniature painting depicts a future incarnation of Lord Vishnu as Kalki. Kalki,...
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Tales from Rajasthan - Dhola Maru
The painting is an llustration of Dhola Maru. A lady in male dress seated on a camel facing a male seated...
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Tales from Vrindavan
Swami Haridasa, a singer and poet of high order, is seated in his hermitage at Vrindavana, a verdant...
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Tales from Childhood: The Ant and the Grasshopper
The ant and the grasshopper were best friends with very different personalities.The grasshopper would...
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Tales from West Bengal: Shakchunni
Once on a time there lived a Brahman who had married a wife, and who lived in the same house with his...
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Tales from Assam: Champavati
Once there was a wealthy man with two wives – the elder one, Laagee (refers to Beloved) and the...
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Tales from Parsi Folklore: Like sugar in milk
The Zoroastrians of Persia (modern-day Iran) fled to avoid forceful conversion by the Islamic invaders...
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Tales from West Bengal: A tiger who didn't know who he was
A pregnant tigress once jumped into the midst of flock of sheep. As she did so, she went into labor,...
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Tales from Tamil Nadu: The Ailing Father-in-Law
One day, a loving daughter asked her partially deaf husband, Rangan, to visit her sick father. To help...
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Tales from Andaman: Kochang, The Son of the Earth
There lived on a hill a man named Kochang. She was very industrious and honest. He had an unfailing faith...
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Tales from Kashmir: That Lazy Man
The wife of a Kashmiri zamindar was perennially depressed. Any attempt at knowing the secret of her mood...
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Tales from Punjab: Origin of Clouds
In Punjab, there is a very interesting myth about the origin of clouds. Once upon a time, a Rishi was...
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Tales from Meghalaya: The Legend of Mount Sophet Bneng
Sophet Bneng is a bare dome-like hill, about thirteen miles to the north of Shillong, and not far from...
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Urdu Folktales: How the Weaver went to Heaven
There was once a weaver whose field used to be visited every night by an elephant of Indra, the king...
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Tales from Panchatantra: The Clever Rabbit and the Foolish Lion
Once upon a time, there lived in a dense forest a cruel lion, Bhasuraka. He was very arrogant, powerful...
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Tales from Bihar: The Sparrow and her crumbs
Long ago, there lived a sparrow. Once, she picked up a grain of gram and carried it to a stone grinder...
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Tales from Maharashtra: The Tiger, the Brahman and the Jackal
Once upon a time, a tiger was caught in a trap. He tried in vain to get out through the bars, and rolled...
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Tales from Madhya Pradesh: Titihari 
A Titihari couple lived in one part of the Chambal beach. Before laying eggs, Titihari asked her...
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Tales from Odisha: The Seventh Sun
Long, long ago there were seven suns in the sky. Their rays made the earth so hot that human beings couldn’t...
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Tales from Jharkhand: Subarnarekha
As per tradition,  gold was mined near the origin of this river at a village named Piska near Ranchi....
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Tales from Gujarat: Mena Gurjari
Mena, a Gurjar woman of surpassing beauty who hailed from Gadh Mandav, was happily married to Chandio,...
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Tales from Tripura: Larima
Larima Fog is generally seen everywhere in Tripura and in other parts of the north-eastern region of...
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