Video of Raja
Thatha telling a story to his grand daughter
(With a humble request from Thatha to send it to as many
homes with little children as
possible)
Once upon a time there
was a boy called Raja in a small
hamlet called Chelakkara in Kerala. His
infanthood was spent in hearing stories
mainly from his father and so many mamas and Mamis in the village . As soon as he started reading, he became an voracious reader. His
father used to subscribe to a Tamil
magazine called Ambulimama and Raja read those stories with lot of interest.
Possibly when he was about ten years old he started telling stories to other children. The children of the village used to flock
around him to hear his stories. He seemed to have an inexhaustible collection of stories with him. Fate
decided to take him to Secunderabad for school studies,. He became initially an avid reader of all the folk tales, Vikramadhithan
Kadhai, Madanakamarajan kadhai , Brihath kadha manjari and later hundreds and thousands of novels . When he visited his
village during vacation , he was in
great demand for telling stories, Raja
Anna became , Raja Mama , the story teller to his nephews and his cousin
brother’s children .He continued this with his children and then to
his grand children. Soon Raja Mama became Raja Thatha and his darling daughter
Mrs.MeeraVenkatesan made him write all
the stories he remembered and created an
extremely popular web site. Possibly Raja
Thatha was becoming old and so
his daughter Meera wanted to
him to leave his treasure of stories in the spoken form
to his children , his grand
children and to the very large number of admirers and fans as
an invaluable inheritance . The first of the stories has been uploaded as a video. More will follow. I am sure each
of them will accept this great treasure
with joy and shed tears of joy .Rajja
THatha wants to thank Meera who made it
possible and Yamini for acting as a
listener. I hope all of you would enjoy
seeing it and then show to your children and also recommend it to your friends.
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