Tinu rabbit and Montu monkey were going to school happily, discussing about their favourite TV characters Tom and Jerry. Suddenly they noticed, Hiru dada riding his blue bicycle looking here and there. Tinu whispered – “I think, he had lost something. Something valuable I guess.” Montu nodded and replied in a low voice – “Yeah and how fast he was …
Read More »Bird House – J. C. Mehta
Raju and Meeni were out in the garden. Meeni had her dolls and Raju his kite. Meeni had scatterd her dolls and Raju his kite. Meeni had scattered her dolls on the grass. It is too hot to fly kites, Raju said. I am also tired of playing with dolls. Let us do something new! Meeni said. Just then, a …
Read More »Best Bubble – J. C. Mehta
See, so many lovely bubbles, shouted Shubham pointing to a man blowing hundreds of bubbles in the park. I too can blow bubbles like that, said Tani. My bubbles are the best. But they are in a secret place. Show me, Tani, show me, said Manasi. Show me, Tani, show me, said Manasi. Not now, replied Tani, but one …
Read More »Big Cabbage – C. Schmid
Two shop boys, Joe and Henry, one day passed by one of the village gardens. “Look at that,” said Joe, “what a beautiful big cabbage.” “That’s nothing,” said Henry, who was something of a boaster. “In my travels in foreign lands I once saw a cabbage bigger than this garden.” Joe, who was a coppersmith, commented: “It must have been …
Read More »Bandar Bandar – J. C. Mehta
Crash! What was that noise? Rohan and his mother dashed out of the kitchen. As they reached the stair case leading up to the terrace, they stopped. Sitting comfortably on the stairs and staring at them was a big, fat monkey. Broken pieces of the matka lay all around him and water was streaming down the staircase. Shoo, shoo, said …
Read More »Aschee – J. C. Mehta
Once there was a king named Satyapriya. His queen was called Suhasini. They lived in a lovely palace with a big garden. Their son Sarvapriya was everyones darling. The king and queen were very fond of Sarvapriya. They never left him alone. There were servants to look after him. Prince Sarvapriya had everything he wanted. But he had no friends. …
Read More »Apple Tree – C. Schmid
Old Rupert was sitting in the shade of a big apple tree in front of his house. His grandchildren were busy eating the beautiful apples and they were never tried of praising the delicious fruit. Their grandfather said to them: “Now I’ll tell you how this tree came here. More than 50 years ago I was standing lazily in an …
Read More »Attack By Night – Sigrun Srivastava
The night of February 14, 1980 was cold and dark. The moon had tried to break through the mass of black cloud, had tried and given up. An icy wind from the hills carrying the smell of fresh snow, swept through the deserted narrow lanes of the little Harijan village of Ramnagar in Uttar Pradesh. It rattled the heavy, planked …
Read More »Aladin And The Magic Lamp
Where is that good for nothing boy? Aladins mother yelled as she looked up from her spinning. There is not a scrap of food in the house, and here I am, working all day long to keep us two alive. Meanwhile, Aladin was in the bazaar on the other side of the town of Baghdad, drinking mint tea and chatting …
Read More »An Educators Day Dream – Gijubhai Badheka
I anxiously waited for the school to begin, so that I take my class and start the work. I was excited to put my new plan into practice: to bring about peace and order in the class, to make classroom teaching interesting and win over my pupils. My heart was full of excitement and I could feel my pulse throbbing. …
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