Comments on: Indian mythologies and today’s kids

By: sunshine

sunshine — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:31:22 +0000

My experience has been completely different. My 4 yr. old and many of her friends that I know who were born and raised in US love watching mythological shows……infact there is lots of action and magic and “weird and crazy” things going on there. My daughter loves the show “ravan” and also “nagin” lolol

By: hetal

hetal — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:49:40 +0000

Try Karadi Tales. They seem like a lot of fun.

er, I am thinking I really should. As long as they don’t have names like Shuthabuddhi etc!

By: anantha

anantha — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:52:01 +0000

asterix is 10 and over imo – you need to be a bit older to appreciate the punny humor

I actually have to agree with Amrita on that one. My mom used to work for the government office that handled accounting for the Central Goverment run libraries in India and she introduced me to Asterix et. al. The problem though was, some of the cultural connections and jokes went over my head (e.g. names like Getafix, the Rolling Menhirs) etc. I am still discovering the various links. Tintin on the other hand was enjoyed just like it is enjoyed now. I managed to cram a lot, but with little retention.

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By: Amrita

Amrita — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:08:18 +0000

six?! oh my, he’s a big boy. Not big enough to read asterix though, dg. amar chitra katha is more his speed. asterix is 10 and over imo – you need to be a bit older to appreciate the punny humor.

By: Amodini

Amodini — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:17:23 +0000

I get a whole lot of questions from my kids too – LOL – and actually did a post on the logical holes they dug up while watching sundry films :

http://reviewroom.blogspot.com/2006/09/hindi-films-and-cultural-slopes.html

Actually my daughter loves Enid Blyton (Famous 5, the 5 Find-Outers, Secret 7) although I can’t find Blyton in my local library here in the US.

By: Inba

Inba — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:19:07 +0000

Tagged!

Intrigued! You do know I am hopeless at them, right?

By: dipali

dipali — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:37:48 +0000

The times they are a changing….
I often wonder how the Famous Five and other adventure stories we read as kids would appeal in this era of cell phones. Though of course the technlogy we enjoy today is probably as magical as that in our mythology.

You must have really grossed out Pratik with the breast feeding story!

I did not gross him out, yaar – he kinda, sorta did it himself. One of my friends, who’s precocious 4.5 year old daughter narrated me the story in gory detail loves it. And is matter of fact with breast feeding, thanks to her mum feeding her baby sis. So the friend reckons once the new baby comes, Pratik will get used to it. But first the house will resonate with sounds of ‘yucky!’ and ‘ewww!’ and other assorted stuff!
Famous Five is totally unsuited to today’s Brit society – kids who listened to their folks, minded their p’s and q’s and generally behaved like model children? Get out of here!!

By: apu

apu — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:25:36 +0000

and – totally unrelatd to this post – but – can we please, please have some more recipes on that sappadu thayaar?

Oh a fan!! Nah seriously, I have got so many pix – P never eats a meal without getting flashbulbs in his face – but am so lazy to type up the recipe and put it on. Will get cracking on it.

By: apu

apu — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:24:26 +0000

phew! some tough job this is! and you’re signing up for it again !!

Oh I know, matey! But I tell you what, this is the fun part of it all. When they can talk and things.
Good times!