Crows and Owls: The Panchatantra Book Three Retold

by Narindar Uberoi Kelly

The series TALL TALES OF OLD INDIA is a modern English retelling of The Panchatantra (literally five books), a collection of millennia old Indian morality tales. Eighty five stories depict animals and humans struggling with thorny issues of friendship, collaboration, conflict and ambition. Relentless in their unwillingness to whitewash or romanticize adult life, they describe the ignoble as well as the noble, cruelty and deceit as well as honor, foolishness as much as cunning, deception as rampant as honesty . Crows and Owls the third group of eighteen stories, has a much darker character. It covers how to deal with conflict when the stakes are high, how to prevent enemies from growing too strong and, when faced with strong enemies, how to consider an array of strategies open to from negotiating a peace to going to war if necessary, retreating, standing your ground without regard to consequences, making alliances or deceiving your enemies. The crucial lesson to be learned is never trust an enemy.

48 pages, Paperback

First published July 7, 2014