Comments on: Indian folk tales capturing global attention http://les-bonnes-fees.com/wordpress/2008/07/indian-folk-tales-capturing-global-attention/ ...fairy tales, folklore, and everything in between Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:31:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Griffin http://les-bonnes-fees.com/wordpress/2008/07/indian-folk-tales-capturing-global-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Griffin Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:41:29 +0000 http://lesbonnesfees.wordpress.com/?p=54#comment-32 There are also the stories of the Pancatantra/Panchatantra. These are like Aesop's fables in some ways. In India the company Amar Chitra Katha (I think, it's been a long time!) used to, I don't know if they still do, publish comic books of the old Indian stories. My parents used to buy them for us as kids when we went around India visiting family in the early 1970s (yes, THAT long ago!) There was one I remember on the Panchatantra and another on Shiva, but my favourite was the story of Savithri. Savithri was my mother's name. There are also the stories of the Pancatantra/Panchatantra. These are like Aesop’s fables in some ways. In India the company Amar Chitra Katha (I think, it’s been a long time!) used to, I don’t know if they still do, publish comic books of the old Indian stories.

My parents used to buy them for us as kids when we went around India visiting family in the early 1970s (yes, THAT long ago!) There was one I remember on the Panchatantra and another on Shiva, but my favourite was the story of Savithri.

Savithri was my mother’s name.

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