Stories For Kids

Gautam Mehrotra was sitting in the living room and reading the newspaper. It was a Sunday. He had just finished his breakfast and was trying to catch up with the rest of the world. Gautam had retired as a senior executive assistant in the Collector’s office, after thirty one year’s of service, ten month ago. Soon after retirement he had …

There was once a little girl who was very willful and who never obeyed when her elders spoke to her – so how could she be happy? One day she said to her parents, “I have heard so much of the old witch that I will go and see her. People say she is a wonderful old woman, and has …

एक स्कूल में टीचर ने अपने छात्रो को एक कहानी सुनाई और बोली एक समय की बात है की एक समय एक छोटा जहाज दुर्घटना ग्रस्त हो गया। उस पर पति पत्नी का एक जोड़ा सफ़र कर रहा था। उन्होने देखा की जहाज पर एक लाइफबोट है जिसमे एक ही व्यक्ति बैठ सकता है, जिसे देखते ही वो आदमी अपनी …

Touching Story by late Indian President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam: When I was a kid, my mom cooked food for us. One night in particular when she had made dinner after a long hard day’s work, mom placed a plate of ‘subzi (cooked vegetable)’ and extremely burnt roti (bread) in front of my dad. I was waiting to see if anyone noticed the burnt …

आज के तनाव भरे, वातावरण में, मेरा एक पड़ोसी जो शक्ल और अक्ल से बिलकुल जोकर लगता है, अचानक आ धमका और बोला – आओ यार आज थोड़ा सा रो ही लें, क्योंकि बीवी मायके चली गई है, टाइम है कि ससुरा काटे से कटने का नाम ही नहीं ले रहा। राम भरोसे की बात सुनकर मुझे आष्चर्य हुआ कि हर …

चारों ओर ईद की तैयारियाँ चल रही थीं। नगमा एक गरीब महिला थी, जो लोगों के घर काम करके पैसा कमाती थी। उसके साथ उसकी दस साल की बेटी सलमा भी अपनी माँ का काम समेटने में मदद करती थी। नगमा मोहम्मद साहब के घर काम करती थी। ईद के इस पावन पर्व पर मोहम्मद साहब अपने परिवार के साथ …

In the autumn of 1777 the English decided to attack Fort Henry, at Wheeling, in northwestern Virginia. This was an important border fort named in honor of Patrick Henry, and around which had grown up a small village of about twenty-five log houses. A band of Indians, under the leadership of one Simon Girty, was supplied by the English with …

On November 29, 1773, there arrived in Boston Harbor a ship carrying an hundred and odd chests of the detested tea. The people in the country roundabout, as well as the town’s folk, were unanimous against allowing the landing of it – but the agents in charge of the consignment persisted in their refusal to take the tea back to …

During the evacuation of New York by Washington, two divisions of the enemy, encamped on Long Island, one British under Sir Henry Clinton, the other Hessian under Colonel Donop, emerged in boats from the deep wooded recesses of Newtown Inlet, and under cover of the fire from the ships began to land at two points between Turtle and Kip’s Bays. …

In the year 1781 the war was chiefly carried on in the South, but the North was constantly troubled by bands of Tories and Indians, who would swoop down on small settlements and make off with whatever they could lay their hands on. During this time General Schuyler was staying at his house, which stood just outside the stockade or …