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    Illustrated Kid Stories
    Illustrated Kid Stories
    Illustrated Kid Stories
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    Illustrated Kid Stories

    By Hiranya Borah

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    I used to tell bed time stories to my two children when they were young. Some of those stories were retold and some of them are out of my cheer imagination. Telling every day a new story is itself a real challenge. I told them Aesop’s stories, stories from Panchatantra, stories from Mahabharata and Ramayana, folklores of Assam, compilation of Rasaraj Laxminath Bezbarua. Whenever I had to repeat any story, I had to use lot of spices on the original versions. Sometimes they liked those and sometimes they dumped those, with a scream ‘Why you are repeating the same story once again?
    Therefore, these are not my stories, but real authors are someone else. Some of the stories already published in my earlier book Putting Children to bed. Therefore, do not try to find any originality in these stories; but still I hope children will like the stories.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHiranya Borah
    Release dateOct 6, 2017
    ISBN9781370036073
    Illustrated Kid Stories
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    Hiranya Borah

    Born in a teachers' family in a village of Assam, a province of India, Borah started his journey of writing at a tender age of eleven. He published two novels in Assamese language and other fictional and non-fictional stories in Assamese periodicals during his college days. Then Borah almost stopped his literary activity for more than three decades. In the meantime he became a Gender specialist.However,so far, he has published more than one hundred and sixty five books on this platform in English and one book in Hindi within a span of five years. The books are on different topics like inspiration,romance and love, humour, ghosts, suspense thriller, children etc and those are written both in prose and poetry.Eight English and two Assamese books are also available in printed form. 2nd edition of his first book, 'Random Thoughts' is also in the public domain.

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      Illustrated Kid Stories - Hiranya Borah

      Illustrated Kid Stories

      Hiranya Borah

      Copyright 2017 Hiranya Borah

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      Preamble

      I have three children; the first two have only two years gap whereas the third one is nine and a half years younger than the second one. When the first two were in schools, I was posted in Guwahati and then I had to move to Delhi. So entire schooling of my third child, second daughter, Anwesha was at New Delhi. She has one major complain amongst others, is that I have not told her enough bed time stories which I used tell to my two elder children, Anusuya and Ayusman. Am I biased against her? Am I becoming older to tell sufficient bed time stories to her? No, the actual culprit (?) is un-interrupted electricity supply in Delhi, particularly, New Delhi area where I use to stay now. Guwahati was infamous for load-shedding of electricity, particularly in summer season when I used to live in Guwahati. I am not sure whether the situation has improved or not in the last thirteen years or so. During those load shedding time, I used to tell bed time stories to my two children. Some of those stories were retold and some of them are out of my cheer imagination. Telling every day a new story is itself a real challenge. I told them Aesop’s stories, stories from Panchatantra, stories from Mahabharata and Ramayana, folklores of Assam, compilation of Rasaraj Laxminath Bezbarua. Whenever I had to repeat any story, I had to use lot of spices on the original versions. Sometimes they liked those and sometimes they dumped those, with a scream ‘Why you are repeating the same story once again?

      Due to my younger daughter’s persistent demand I attempt to jot down some stories in my own rustic ways in this book. These stories are bed time stories and therefore, I am not claiming any originality nor am I claiming any authenticity of the original stories. In other words, the origins of the stories are from some famous books or from memories of my childhood, but now I am presenting those in my own language and along with my own interpretation and with some twists and turns.

      I am thankful to all the authors who originally wrote these stories and my elders who used to tell me these stories for the first time when I was a village kid.

      I place my sincere gratitude to all my readers, my family members for encouraging me to write this compilation like putting old wine in new bottles.

      I am always thankful to google and the original photographers and artists for using their pics as representative pics without associating any relation with photographs of the concerned persons or the animals with the characters of stories.

      I shall be a sinner, if I do not express my gratitude to my parents, brothers, sisters, friends, foes and teachers for their support for developing my personality, good or bad depending upon the perspective of the person who is looking at me

      Finally, I dedicate this book to my younger daughter, Anwesha for her persistent demand for writing this book.

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      Chapter I: Horse and donkey

      As a part of moral study, in Assamese language, this story was read by me when I was a student of class three in my village school. I am not sure the origin of the story. Therefore, acknowledging the contribution of the original writer of the story in shaping my character, I am trying to reproduce the story in my own language.

      One fine morning, a donkey singing a song in the praise of the king, was walking by the side of a highway. He was very happy as his master had given a one day off due to Gandhi Jayanti, birth day Father of the Nation, from his tough duty of carrying household goods from one place to another place on his back. But his happiness was short lived.

      A horse was coming from the opposite side. The horse was also on a holiday mood as his master also gave him a holiday

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