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. Crow, Mouse, Turtle, Deer, the second collection contains fifteen stories that depict the making of four friends who are different species one might even say natural enemies. It is really an elaborate tale of true friendship that flourishes despite the vastly differing natures of the individuals and the travails they face. The strengths of each friend make the group strong and effective in addressing the challenges they face.
