The Amar Chitra Katha series of comics has brought out a beautiful special bound edition,'The Best of Indian Wit and Wisdom', having fifteen titles as shown here including the first one being,'The Adventures of Baddu and Cchotu',a folktale from Bengal.This is a beautiful edition covering many regional folktales, tales from the Panchatantra, Hitopadesha, Buddhist Jataka tales, Jain tales, animal tales from the Mahabharata, tales of jesters like Birbal,Tenali Rama, and Gopal,and tales told by Sri Ramakrishna paramahamsa.Thus, this volume is a collector's edition of Indian folklore, worth to be bought and gifted.
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