Stories For Kids

LET’S SHOW our love while we can, while people need us. That is something I learnt from an incident in Bhopal. I saw a little boy daily near the Hanuman temple, always in a white tee and black pants, with a small Hanuman pendant around his neck. He sat with a basket of fresh floral garlands. Be it at six …

“Give me one more laddu, Mummy,” said Deepu when he saw his mother putting a coconut laddu in his plate. “Deepu, I am giving you the only laddu which is left. There are no more laddus,” said Mother. “But Mummy, Daddy brought half a kilo laddus just this morning. How come there is only one left? Who has eaten the …

Michael and Anne were alone in the house. Michael said to Anne: “Come along to find something good.” Anne replied: “If you take me where nobody will see us, then I shall come very willingly.” “Then,” continued Michael, “we shall go to the dairy and there we can drink a whole cup of cream and no one will see us.” …

सुना तुमने कुछ अम्मा, पड़ोस वाले वर्मा जी के घर बेटी हुई है… कहते हुए शर्मा भाभी का मुँह विद्रूप हो उठा मानो बेटी ना हुई हो कोई साँप या छछूंदर पैदा हो गया हो। हमका तो समझ नहीं आवत है कि तीन-तीन बेटियों के बाद भी बेटा क्यों नहीं जन पा रही है। सत्तर के ऊपर हो चुकी मोहल्ले …

बाजार में घुसते ही जिस चीज के दर्शन सबसे पहले होते हैं वह है महंगाई। महंगाई देख कर आदमी यह मानने को विवश हो जाता है कि दुनिया कितनी तेजी से तरक्की कर रही है। पहले जेब में पैसा लेकर बाजार जाते थे और सौदा थैले में भर कर लाते थे। आज थैला में भर कर पैसा ले जाओ, सौदा …

Gautam Mehrotra was sitting in the living room and reading the newspaper. It was a Sunday. He had just finished his breakfast and was trying to catch up with the rest of the world. Gautam had retired as a senior executive assistant in the Collector’s office, after thirty one year’s of service, ten month ago. Soon after retirement he had …

There was once a little girl who was very willful and who never obeyed when her elders spoke to her – so how could she be happy? One day she said to her parents, “I have heard so much of the old witch that I will go and see her. People say she is a wonderful old woman, and has …

आज के तनाव भरे, वातावरण में, मेरा एक पड़ोसी जो शक्ल और अक्ल से बिलकुल जोकर लगता है, अचानक आ धमका और बोला – आओ यार आज थोड़ा सा रो ही लें, क्योंकि बीवी मायके चली गई है, टाइम है कि ससुरा काटे से कटने का नाम ही नहीं ले रहा। राम भरोसे की बात सुनकर मुझे आष्चर्य हुआ कि हर …

In the autumn of 1777 the English decided to attack Fort Henry, at Wheeling, in northwestern Virginia. This was an important border fort named in honor of Patrick Henry, and around which had grown up a small village of about twenty-five log houses. A band of Indians, under the leadership of one Simon Girty, was supplied by the English with …

On November 29, 1773, there arrived in Boston Harbor a ship carrying an hundred and odd chests of the detested tea. The people in the country roundabout, as well as the town’s folk, were unanimous against allowing the landing of it – but the agents in charge of the consignment persisted in their refusal to take the tea back to …