Once Upon a Beginning: Incredible Origin Stories from India
About this ebook
Then, the earth met the sky. The sun married the moon. Birds were gifted the night. Beasts prowled the forests. And people? Well, they just burst out of their dark underground dwelling and came to live on land. They cooked for the gods and ate with the tiger. They fought shape-shifting ogres and honoured the first sorcerer. And oh, they conjured up a trove of astounding tales . . . of the extraordinary origins of the world, its wonders and its vivacious beings.
Treasured and passed down through generations by indigenous communities from different parts of India, these rare and untold creation myths piece together the mysteries of life and evolution.
Get ready to be spirited away, for it's time to go back to the beginning!
About the author
Nalini Ramachandran is an author, editor, storyteller and TEDx speaker. She has a keen interest in tribal lore and folk memory, and in exploring how these have shaped human life and culture. Her works, both fiction and non-fiction, have appeared in a range of formats: comics and graphic novels, newspaper articles and magazine features, school textbooks and coffee-table books, animation scripts and film screenplays. She has written many children's books, including Trumpet Calls: Epic Tales of Extraordinary Elephants and Gods, Giants and the Geography of India. To know more, visit www.authornalini.com.
