THE PANCHATANTRA: TEACHING TALES OF OLD INDIA
About this ebook
These are only a few of the colourful stories that long, long ago – it is said – a sage told three princes so that they could learn to live wisely. Instead of giving them boring lessons, the learned tutor told them fables alive with animals and human characters faced with difficult situations about friendship, cooperation, quarrels and ambition. The tales told by Pandit Vishnu Sharma about 2,500 years ago offer a map of how to make one’s way through life in a moral and wise manner. These stories of friends and enemies, cruelty and deceit, honour and humility, foolishness and cunning, deception and honesty, tell us about the choices we have and how to find a solution to tough questions of right and wrong.
This all-colour, beautifully illustrated edition contains stories retold from all five books of the Panchatantra and is designed to make it easy for readers to move from story to story, and across stories within stories – making it a must-have for readers young and old.
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About the author
Narindar Uberoi Kelly was born in Lahore, then British India. Educated at Punjab and Lucknow Universities, she went to England, and then on to the United States, where she received a PhD in South Asia Regional Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on social demography, an experience that provided her a richer understanding of the sociocultural traditions of India. Her professional career has been that of a social demographer working in the fields of health, education and finance. She lives in Baltimore, USA, with her husband, Michael Kelly.
Meagan Jenigen is a 2013 graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art. In addition to exhibiting drawings, paintings and illustrations, she works in apparel and theatre design, as well as video production and documentaries. She is a native of Richmond, VA, USA.
