Category: Week 10

Week 10, Reading Diary Continued: Stories of Indian God’s and Heroes

March 29, 2016

To continue this week’s readings, I was reading the story of Prahlada from Stories of Indian God’s and Heroes by W. D. Monro (1911) when I started to get more and more captured by the story. Prahlada is consumed with living his life to tell others about the greatness of Vishnu despite his father being the Daitya King … More Week 10, Reading Diary Continued: Stories of Indian God’s and Heroes

Week 10, Reading Diary: Stories of Indian Gods & Heroes

March 29, 2016

This week I chose to read from Indian Gods and Heroes: Vishwamitra, Prahlada, Savitri, Damayanti by W. D. Monro (1911). The first story is about the god Viswamitra. I had not realized until I got about 30 pages in that I had read a students storytelling blog based on the story of how Viswamitra tried to send … More Week 10, Reading Diary: Stories of Indian Gods & Heroes