stories with morals
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin – book review
Arable Parables and Common Ground

In writing you most often try to communicate a message or a feeling. You want your words to be absorbed by the reader, and hope that you’ve been clever enough with the words to create the exact reaction in the reader’s mind that you had hoped for. Of course, such reactions can never be predicted […]
Moral Stories for Children Are Vital

I didn’t read any baby books when I was growing up, by that I mean books specifically written for infants and pre-schoolers. I got thrown straight into the deep end with fairly serious comics, books of folk tales, and some other strange things that most wouldn’t consider appropriate childhood reading. It was only natural after […]
Deepawali Greetings and Platitudes

Indians are festival gluttons. That’s not to imply that we all eat too much during festivals (only most of us do, not ALL of us), but rather that we have more commonly celebrated festivals than you can shake a large decorated Christmas tree at. Speaking of Christmas, the Indian equivalent in the realm of noise, […]