Long, long ago, Prithvi (Mother Earth) was troubled by the sinful acts of demons and evil forces. Daityas (demons) caused mayhem, violence and destruction everywhere. Prithvi went to Mount Sumeru to ask Lord Brahma for help. She cried out, “Evil Kansa, son of Ugrasena, is causing havoc on earth. He has joined evil demon-king Arishta, […]
Chapter 3 15th SeptemberDear Daddy-Long-Legs,Behold me—a Sophomore! I reached here last Friday, feeling very miserable for leaving Lock Willow, but delighted to see the campus once more. It is a cheerful sensation to come back to a place which is more or less my home. In fact, I am beginning to feel at home in
Chapter 2 Dear Kind-Trustee-Who-Sends-Orphans-to-College, I reached the college. I know it is funny but I never travelled in a train before, so my journey was quite exciting. College is the biggest, most perplexed place I’ve ever been to—Most of the times it is difficult to find my room whenever I leave it. I will write
Once upon a time, there lived an old, kind sow in a jungle. She was looking after a lost tiger cub along with her piglet. One day, the wild, old sow died. By then, the cub had grown up into a tiger and the piglet into a pig. By nature, the tiger wanted to hunt
Chapter 1 Here comes the day! A day to be awaited with awe, confronted with courage and forgotten with haste is the first Wednesday of every month. Stainless floors, dustless chairs and wrinkleless beds were the need of the hour. All ninety-seven notorious little orphans had to be neatly dressed into newly starched ginghams and
Many years ago, bluebirds were white in colour. One day, a bluebird and his grandfather saw a beautiful blue lake. He stopped and asked, “Grandfather, can I be as blue as that lake?” His grandfather gave him a song to sing and said, “If you dive in this lake for five mornings while singing this
Chapter 12 Phileas Fogg was in prison! Passepartout would have strangled Fix had not some policemen held him back. He also might have blown his own brains out had his revolver been handy. “Why didn’t I tell my master what Fix was really up to?” he cried, blaming himself for the terrible mess. He had
Chapter 11 “Where is the train?” asked Phileas Fogg the moment he returned. “Gone,” said Aouda, sobbing with relief in Passepartout’s arms. “When will the next train pass through?”“Not until this evening.” Fogg was already 20 hours behind schedule, and he had to reach New York by 9:00 in the evening on December 11 in
Chapter 10 On December 7, the train stopped at the Green River station, and Aouda saw Colonel Stamp Proctor on the platform. “We must keep this man away from Mr. Fogg!” she whispered to Passepartout and Fix. “Don’t worry,” said Fix, “Before he settles with Mr. Fogg, he must settle with me. It was I
One day, a dog went to the woods. After some time, he met a wolf. The dog said to the wolf, “Brother Wolf, you look so thin! You should live with me and my master. He gives me good food.” The wolf thought for a moment and replied, “Yes, you are right. Why should I
In a far-away forest, there was a river. This river was home to many golden swans. The swans spent most of their time on the banks of the river. Every six months, the swans would leave a golden feather, as a fee for using the river. One day, a homeless crane saw the river. ‘The
Chapter 9 A train was due to leave San Francisco for New York at 6:00 in the evening. Fogg and Aouda ate lunch and then went to the consulate for a visa. On the way there, they met Detective Fix. “I didn’t know that we all crossed the Pacific on the General Grant,” Fix lied,
Once upon a time, there lived a fox who wanted to make friends with the lion. But he was very frightened of the lion. His friends tried to warn him about the danger in befriending such a ferocious animal but he didn’t listen to them. “I will surely be friends with the king of the
Once there was a wild crow, for whom, having to go out and hunt insects was just a great deal of effort. He was very fond of his comforts. One day, he saw that a lioness had kept a parrot in a cage, as her pet. He saw that the parrot was well fed. He
Chapter 8 On November 7 at 6:30 p.m., the Carnatic set sail from Hong Kong. Passepartout was on board. He had been carried by two waiters to the bed in tavern. Struggling against the effects of the opium, he dreamed of his duty to tell Phileas Fogg about the Carnatic’s new timetable. Somehow he dragged