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The magical Indian myths
Kunal Diwan
NEW DELHI: The great Indian tradition of storytelling is based primarily on myths and anecdotes that are salient to particular cultures and regions. In an attempt to rekindle this delightful genre of the written word, Penguin India is now coming out with “The Puffin Book of Magical Indian Myths”. Penned by Anita Nair, the book comprises a series of narratives pertaining to the angels and demons, the sages and heretics and the vaguely colourful netherworld that form the bulwark of Indian stories from a time when science was in its infancy and substituted usually by erroneous but highly entertaining explanations. Mostly the personification of inanimate objects formed the fulcrum around which stories revolved. For instance, this is how a story in the book explains the phases of the moon: “Sage Daksha got his daughters married to the moon, but later, in a fit of rage, cursed it with consumption and made it wax and wane.”
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