Indian Fables

Short tales where animals speak and morals quietly unfold

Tales of Krishna

Stories of divinity, destiny, love and leela

Tales of Krishna

Bhama and Satyabhama — The Name She Was Born With and the Truth That Completed It

If you watched Krishnavataram you may remember this moment — the film suggesting that she was originally called just Bhama and that she was called as Satyabhama later, earned through the Syamantaka episode. That the truth she chose to stand by gave her the name she is known by today. It is a beautiful idea. And I went looking for it in the original texts.Here is what I found — which is more…
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Tales of Krishna

The Banquet Without Salt — How Krishna Showed Satyabhama What She Meant to Him

This is a story about salt. That is not a sentence you would expect to find in Indian mythology. But bear with it — because this is also a story…
Tales of Krishna

The Letter Rukmini Wrote to Krishna Before Her Wedding

The Bhagavata Purana is one of the most beloved texts in all of Indian literature. It runs to twelve cantos and thousands of shlokas. And in the tenth…
Tales of Krishna

Before the Letter — Who Was Rukmini and How She Fell in Love with a Man She Had Never Met

There is something I find extraordinary about the love story of Mata Rukmini that tends to get lost in the telling. She had never met…