Description

We cannot imagine monsoon without the smell of the wet sand, the joy of spotting earthworms and getting wet in the rains.

• We love them as the very idea of monsoon.
• If we were to become indifferent to these things, it would be a sure sign that in our hearts we had broken faith with the earth.
• It is equally impossible to imagine a childhood without Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, or Frog Prince.
• Our unfolding sensibilities were nourished by them, and the fairy-tale princes seemed more real than the strange adult around us.
• “The characters in the fairy tales led us to discover the treasures in our own souls. We became aware of the sorrows of life and the guidance of destiny.”
• Through them we learned that faithfulness makes the soul beautiful; that purity is the soul’s highest joy and that only in poverty does its inmost radiance begins to shine.
• It also became clear that we were born on earth just because there were so many wonderful adventures waiting for us.
• Fairy tales told and retold to a child enrich those depths of the soul from which our later hopes and ideals are born.
• Millions of human souls absorb the fairy-tale motifs during their formative years, and their feelings are given a direction that influences the whole character of a people.
• No other literary has such a fundamental effect on the generation of people.