EpicsClassic retold
Bharata and the Sandals
Prince Bharata comes home to find that his mother has sent his beloved brother Rama into exile so that Bharata can be king. He does not want the throne. So he walks into the forest to bring Rama back.
EpicsClassic retold
Hanuman and the Mountain
Lakshmana lies badly wounded on the battlefield, and only a healing herb from a far-off mountain can save him before sunrise. Hanuman flies north to fetch it. But when he gets there, he can't tell which herb is the right one.
EpicsClassic retold
Krishna and Sudama
Two boys share everything at school. Years later, one is a king in a golden city and the other is so poor his family often goes hungry. Sudama walks to the palace with a small bundle of flattened rice. Will his old friend even remember him?
EpicsClassic retold
The Yaksha's Questions
Four thirsty brothers drink from a beautiful lake and fall to the ground. When the fifth, Yudhishthira, arrives, a voice tells him he may drink only after answering its questions. His life, and theirs, depends on his answers.
Life LessonsClassic retold
After Twenty Years
Two young friends in New York promise to meet in the same doorway exactly twenty years later. One of them keeps the appointment. O. Henry's story of loyalty and duty.
SportsBiography
Four Golds in Berlin
The grandson of enslaved people, born to a poor farming family in Alabama, went to the 1936 Olympic Games in Hitler's Germany and won four gold medals.
SportsBiography
The Boxing Mother
The daughter of poor farmers in the hills of Manipur hid her boxing from her own father. She went on to become a world champion again and again, even after becoming a mother of three.
SportsBiography
The Boy from Khandra
A farmer's son from a village in Haryana was taken to a stadium to lose a little weight. There he picked up a javelin, and years later he threw it to India's first Olympic gold in athletics.
SportsBiography
The Dhing Express
A rice farmer's daughter from a village in Assam used to play football in the paddy fields. In 2018, she became the first Indian to win a world title on the running track.
True StoriesTrue story
The Dog Who Waited
Every evening, a big white dog waited at Shibuya Station in Tokyo for his master's train. One day his master did not come home. The dog kept waiting, for almost ten years.
Life LessonsClassic retold
The Lottery Ticket
After supper one evening, a comfortable husband and wife discover that their lottery ticket might have won a fortune. Before they even check the number, things begin to change. Chekhov's sharp, funny story.
Life LessonsClassic retold
The Postmaster
A young man from Calcutta is posted to a lonely village post office, where an orphan girl keeps house for him. Tagore's tender story of a bond that means far more to one than to the other.
SportsBiography
The Shoeshine Boy Who Won the World Cup
A poor boy in Brazil, who played barefoot with a ball made of socks, once saw his father cry over a lost World Cup. Eight years later, aged seventeen, he kept a promise.
For KidsFable & folk tale
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
A plain little country mouse visits her grand cousin in the big town, where the food is fancy and the plates are silver. But there is something the town mouse forgot to mention.
KindnessClassic retold
The Happy Prince
A golden statue who can see all the sorrow of his city asks a little swallow to give away his jewels and gold, one piece at a time. Oscar Wilde's tender fairy tale.
For KidsFable & folk tale
The Lion and the Mouse
A mighty lion laughs when a tiny mouse promises to repay his kindness one day. Then the hunters' net falls.
MotivationBiography
The Girl Who Was Told She Would Never Walk
As a child, Wilma Rudolph wore a metal brace on her leg after polio. At twenty, she became the fastest woman in the world.
For KidsFable & folk tale
The Monkey and the Crocodile
A clever monkey shares sweet fruit with a crocodile every day. But one afternoon, halfway across the river, his friend tells him a terrible secret.
Life LessonsClassic retold
Kabuliwala
A five-year-old girl in Calcutta becomes best friends with a tall Afghan fruit-seller. Years later he returns, and her father understands what they shared. Tagore's beloved story.
For KidsOriginal story
The Broken Kite
Tavi didn't mean to break his sister's kite. Hiding it seemed easy, but keeping a secret turned out to be much heavier than telling the truth.