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VOL. 18 No. 1

MONKEY WISDOM DID YOU KNOW?

Animals have always been an amazing tool to convey important
A i l l l l l l l l l l l h l l l l b i t l l l l l l l l l The Monkey King in the Jungle Book
messages and lessons through stories and myths. As children, we have movie was based on the now extinct
all heard a number of stories with animal characters – and monkeys Gigantopithecus.
have always been a favourite!

BANDOR ARU SIYAL
Tanush Arora, Class 7, Cambridge School, Noida
PANCHATANTRA STORIES This is an Assamese

Panchatantras have been a story. The story talks
huge part of our childhood. about the monkey
Monkeys have been one of cheating the fox by
the very important animal eating all the food
characters in these stories to that they got, without
teach lessons on friendship, keeping aside the
cleverness, etc. fox’s share. The fox
decides to get back at
Naavya Agarwal, Class 8B, Global Indian
International School, Ahmedabad the monkey by tricking him into leaping onto a beehive,
thinking it is the royal drum!
ACTIVITY:
Identify the names and morals
of these two stories. Illustration by: Navya Kandiyal, THE MONKEY AND THE DRUM
Class 7, Doon International Public
School, Rishikesh This story is popular in south India. It is about a monkey
THE JUNGLE BOOK who, using his tricks, acquires a razor from a barber, wood
for fuel from a woodcutter, sweets from a grandmother,
The Jungle Book, and fi nally a drum from a shopkeeper. He then climbs up a
written by Rudyard tree and announces while he played his drum about how
Kipling, has reference he acquired all these things!
to the ‘bandar-log’.
They are shown as THE MONKEY AND THE BELL
a scatterbrained
community of There is a Hitopadesha story in Sanskrit about a village
monkeys, who keep where monkeys in the forest
singing the following lines: “We are great. We are free. play with a bell they
We are wonderful. We are the most wonderful people in all found. All the people of
the jungle! We all say so, and so it must be true”. They are the village are scared as
excluded by the rest of the animals because they don’t they feel that there is a
follow the jungle laws and have no leader. demon in the forest who
kills people and celebrates
ACTIVITY: MY MONKEY family by ringing the bell. A bold
woman goes to the King and
Write a story of a promises that she will get rid
monkey family from of the evil spirit. She takes
the eyes of the baby some fruits, vegetables,
monkey. What would and places them on the
the monkey’s character ground. As soon as the
be like? Will it be serious, monkeys came to eat, she
funny, goofy, sad? Give picked up the bell and
it a name, personality, Illustration by: Navya Kandiyal, Class 7, went back to the king,
habits, appearance. Doon International Public School, Rishikesh who sang her praises!

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