
A laugh at a thousand faces and one mouth.
From the original text · Oral tradition
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A laugh at a thousand faces and one mouth.
From the original text · Oral tradition

Draw a shorter line without touching it.
From the original text · Oral tradition

How King Vikram came to carry Betal.
From the original text · Vetala Panchavimshati (Baital Pachisi)

Under the streetlight, where it is brighter.
From the original text · Oral tradition
A trader outwitted by his own house.
From the original text · Oral tradition
A camel ride across the desert.
From the original text · Oral tradition
The girl who fetched the silver tree.
From the original text · Thakurmar Jhuli
The song that dropped the vadai.
From the original text · Oral tradition

Lambikin, lambikin, I'll eat you!
From the original text · Oral tradition
The sparrow's house of wax and the crow's house of dung.
From the original text · Oral tradition
Why the wooden god has short arms.
From the original text · Oral tradition
The girl and the serpent prince.
From the original text · Oral tradition
The wizard of Berlin, 1936.
From the original text · Biographies
The first Param Vir Chakra, Kashmir, 1947.
From the original text · Biographies
A name that came from far away and fits just right.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
The master map: who is who, and why it matters.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
Both, all the way through.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
A king who chose the wheel over the sword.
From the original text · Biographies
A clerk in Madras and a letter to Cambridge.
From the original text · Biographies
Five hundred and sixty-five pieces.
From the original text · Biographies
Torna, Raigad, and a mother's stories.
From the original text · Biographies
Yeh Dil Maange More: Kargil, 1999.
From the original text · Biographies
A horse who jumped a river.
From the original text · Biographies
The boy who could not sit in class.
From the original text · Biographies
The queen who rebuilt temples across India.
From the original text · Biographies
Yes. Two trees of light.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
You can be both.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
A queen who fought the Company twenty-three years before 1857.
From the original text · Biographies
From embarrassment to pride, gently.
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
A boy from nowhere, a teacher with a plan.
From the original text · Biographies
Zero, and the earth that turns.
From the original text · Biographies
How many stars, where is the centre, how many crows?
From the original text · Oral tradition
Betal's first riddle.
From the original text · Vetala Panchavimshati (Baital Pachisi)
Chakli and the dana.
From the original text · Oral tradition
Kesar Kalmi, the horse who flew.
From the original text · Oral tradition
Two brothers and a rakshasi.
From the original text · Thakurmar Jhuli
A trunk full of water.
From the original text · Oral tradition
Twelve children of one mother.
From the original text · Aithihyamala
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