India, Aug. 22 -- Why do certain stories survive?
The best tales - the ones that endure - contain a bit of humour, pathos, the element of surprise and, often, a quick, pithy lesson in what it means to be human. Those that do it best, couch all this in entertaining metaphor.
And so a tale about mermaids in Puducherry becomes a parable on the power of the sea. A story about why trees stopped roaming around and grew roots instead, told in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, offers a curt reminder that there is a price to be paid for turning a forest against you.
The tales that live on the longest tend to encapsulate our deepest desires and greatest fears, our flaws, follies and misdeeds.
In India, such stories include legends of rivers that...
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