Greatest Folk Tales of Bihar by Nalin Verma

Greatest Folk Tales of Bihar by Nalin Verma
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A wonderful collection of folklore stories from Bihar. The one story that stands out in my mind is "Andher Nagari ...". It is about a stupid king who ends up hanging himself up. This is because, this is a story that my father used to tell us when we were children and somehow I still remember it after all these years (at least 40+ years). He possibly heard this story as he himself was born and brought up in Jamshedpur.

The author has tried to create a moral for each story. This may or may not have been the reason behind the story, but nevertheless it is worth reading them. It highlights the simplicity of the people who would have recited these stories and those that would have been entertained by them. It is nice to wear the shoes of simplicity when reading the book.

A good read and more importantly it is a good collection so that these stories are not lost to the posterity.

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