Nitin Pai on Educating Citizens
Ideas of India
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The Story of Jataka Tails
Jataka Tails comes from like a Buddhist oral tradition Aesip's fables which is of course Aesip and you know in ancient Greece Pancha Tantra they are all written thousands of years ago. So it feels like this works very well for the Indian context because as a culture in South Asia we are of the oral tradition right until like a minute ago almost like or maybe a few decades ago most of the population was not lettered.
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