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A clerk in Madras and a letter to Cambridge.

From the original text · Biographies

Leaving the road outside.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

The naming day.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Colours, sticks and laughter.

From the original text · Brahmavaivarta Purana

Five hundred and sixty-five pieces.

From the original text · Biographies

A small boy, a big king, three steps.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Twenty rupees spent on feeding the hungry.

From the original text · Janamsakhis of Guru Nanak

Torna, Raigad, and a mother's stories.

From the original text · Biographies

Charan sparsh: asking for a blessing with your whole body.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

A rabbit sheltering under an elephant in a forest fire.

From the original text · Jain moral tales

A ring dropped from a branch.

From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana

A snake calmed by kindness.

From the original text · Kalpa Sutra

A rocket on a bicycle.

From the original text · Biographies

Yeh Dil Maange More: Kargil, 1999.

From the original text · Biographies

Rama and Sita inside.

From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana

A horse who jumped a river.

From the original text · Biographies

The boy who could not sit in class.

From the original text · Biographies

A boy in Rameswaram.

From the original text · Biographies

Mum's sister is Masi, Dad's sister is Foi, Mum's brother is Mama, Dad's brother is Kaka.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Bamboo and Krishna.

From the original text · Art and music histories

If I have hurt you, I am sorry.

From the original text · Jain moral tales

The queen who rebuilt temples across India.

From the original text · Biographies

Mooshika.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Khoob ladi mardani.

From the original text · Biographies

From Karnal to the stars.

From the original text · Biographies

Yes. Two trees of light.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Nandi at the door, the snake and the mouse who get along.

From the original text · Shiva Purana

A lamp in a clay pot, a circle around it.

From the original text · Devi Mahatmya (Durga Saptashati)

The Khalsa, the Zafarnama, and the Guru Granth as the last Guru.

From the original text · Sikh history

Nine nights in a circle.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

A lamp, a song, a circle of light.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

A mandir carved in India and built in England.

From the original text · Art and music histories

A boy who would not move until he was seen.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Ganesha's favourite sweet.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

You can be both.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Helping without being asked.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Gods and asuras pull the same rope.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

A queen who fought the Company twenty-three years before 1857.

From the original text · Biographies

Because a train is long and thepla keeps.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Makar Sankranti and the sky over Ahmedabad.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

From embarrassment to pride, gently.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Yes.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Because they carried them a long way.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

The life, the symbol and the lesson of Parshvanatha.

From the original text · Trishashti-shalaka-purusha-charitra

The life, the symbol and the lesson of Mahavira.

From the original text · Trishashti-shalaka-purusha-charitra

What the Brahma Purana holds, and the first episodes to come from it.

From the original text · The Eighteen Mahapuranas

What the Padma Purana holds, and the first episodes to come from it.

From the original text · The Eighteen Mahapuranas

What the Vishnu Purana holds, and the first episodes to come from it.

From the original text · The Eighteen Mahapuranas