Raja Thatha writes
Most of you , my friends
, would be knowing about my contributions on translation stotras and krithis.You also may know that
I do some contribution about
Brahmin rituals .
But most of you may not know that
I am a story teller .Having heard
lot of stories from my father , I started
telling stories to other children at the age
of 5. My father subscribed to Ambulimama
magazine in Tamil and I was an
avid reader who read the great stories and my story telling skills improved .At the age
of 12, I joined an english medium school and stated reading Grimms fairy
tales , Andersons fairy tales and by the time I entered college , I had completed reading
most of the english fairy tales as well
as Ramayana, Mahabharatha,
Brihath katha manjari , Pancha thanthra and so on
.Due to this , wherever I
went , I was in great demand as a story teller .My children did hear all these
stories and were my great fan .
So after my retirement when I settled
down, my daughter wanted me to
write as many stories as I could and
she made a web site out of it. I
wrote about 100
stories classified as
Animal tales
Magical tales
Folk tales
Royal tales
People’s tales
And
Religious tales
It was her suggestion that I included my
Rhymes ( indianized English rhymes as well
as translated Indian rhymes)
simple Hindu prayers
for children
as well as
story like
biography of many great people.
Even now wherever I happen to meet children
or their parents , as soon as
they know I am their children’s Raja Thatha, they call their children and introduce me to them,
I really enjoy
meeting them and if time is
there tell them stories. You can
see , this aspect of my contribution
in
I invite my young
ald old friend to enjoy them
2 comments:
Namaskaram. I was searching for a temple town named "Thiruchathi Mutram" and I got your link, as searched by Google.
Its such a great work ("Aakka_poorvam'ana) that you are doing, writing for your daughter as well as enriching the young minds with our rich cultural heritage and slokhas.
I strongly believe that in our culture, there are definite steps and measures one, can take, during troubled times
I wud love to engage with you. You can reach me on rajaamurugan26@gmail.com
Anbudan. Murugan
Dear Sri. Ramachandra. Pranams and Namaskarams.
I love the work you are doing. I would like to get in connect with you and take some valuable suggestions and measures.
I landed on your page while googling out Thiruchathi_mutram temple town.
Glad to hear that you have been in the art of story telling from a very young age. The epics and stories you have written in your blog are my all time favorites, and does chuckle my humor now and then.
Wishing you best,
Anbudan
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