Step into the world of Krishna — the divine cowherd and wise charioteer — in short stories written in warm, simple English for every reader.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAnanya was not allowed to sleep tonight. This was the rule, and she had been reminding everyone of it since morning. “Even if I fall asleep on the floor,” she told her grandmother, “wake me up. Promise.” “We will wake you,” her grandmother said, smiling, hanging a small string of
Reading Time: 2 minutesStop eyeing those biscuits, beta. Not today. Today we wait. You’re making that face again, the one you make when you think I’m being unfair. Sit, I’ll tell you why. When I was your age, my own grandmother used to fast the whole day on Janmashtami — no rice, no
Reading Time: 2 minutesStop pulling each other’s hair and listen, both of you. You think Krishna was always floating around with a flute, looking peaceful? Chup. Let me tell you what that boy actually did to his poor mother. Yashoda was churning curd one morning. Hot already, sweat on her neck, bangles clinking
Reading Time: 2 minutesStop fidgeting and come sit close, it’s getting cold. You know how some nights the moon is so full it makes you restless, makes you want to walk out of the house for no reason at all? That is the kind of night I am going to tell you about.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the village of Vrindavan, everyone loved Gopal. He was named Krishna when he was small. When he was still the boy who ran through the village barefoot, stealing butter from clay pots, making the cows follow him just by playing his flute. Every family in Vrindavan knew him. Every
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe prison cell had no window. Vasudeva knew this because he had counted the stones in the wall so many times he could close his eyes and see every one. One hundred and forty-three stones. He had memorised each crack, each dark stain, each place where the mortar had crumbled
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe morning Radha lost her anklet, she did not notice for a long time. She had been walking the path between the kadamba trees — the one that ran alongside the Yamuna where the mud stayed cool even in summer. Her feet knew every stone on that path. Every root.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt started with a handful of mud. Sita from next door came running before the afternoon had fully settled — breathless, indignant, her dupatta half-undone from running. “Yashoda! Your son. Your Kanha. He has been eating mud again. Right there by the river bank. I saw him.” Yashoda set down
Reading Time: 2 minutesYashoda heard it before she saw it. The soft scrape of a wooden stool being dragged across the kitchen floor. Then silence — the particular silence of a child trying very hard not to exist. She stood at the doorway and watched. Krishna was seven years old and standing on
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe night was dark and rainy. Inside a prison in Mathura, Queen Devaki sat quietly on the cold floor. She was about to have her baby. Her husband, Vasudeva, sat beside her. Heavy chains were tied around his hands and feet. Outside the prison, thunder rumbled in the sky. Devaki
