Fundamatics

Author: Sherline Pimenta

  • Foreword

    Foreword

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    Illustration by the author

    [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A story well told can lift up your hearts
    And help you forget all your sorrows
    It can give you the strength and the courage to stand
    And face all your troubles tomorrow.
    For there’s wisdom and wit, beauty and charm
    There’s laughter and sometimes there’s tears
    But when the story is over and the spell it is broken
    You’ll find that there’s nothing to fear.

    ~~Mike Jones, The Storyteller

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  • The Same Yet Different World

    The Same Yet Different World

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    [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]As a story researcher and storyteller, having read and told hundreds of stories from Aesop’s fables and the Arabian Nights to Panchatantra and Akbar Birbal stories, from stories of San Kanchil the mouse deer and Ananse the spider to Bere Rabbit tales, the realization that people all over the world are the same and yet different is clearly evident. When it comes to stories, I have marvelled how tales told among communities in geographically distant places may seem different but also have similarities. These tales give us one message – human beings everywhere are the same when it comes to physiology and yet are different when it comes to cultural practices, food choices and beliefs. Even though this fact is not a new one, history shows us that it has been one of the toughest realities to accept.

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  • Raja Bada-Moochee Dildaar

    Raja Bada-Moochee Dildaar

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    The cover illustration of this story has been done by the author’s four-year-old daughter Keiya Krishnakumar.

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    Once upon a time, many years ago the kingdom of Jeerpore, was ruled by a king called Raja Bada-Moochee. He was called Raja Bada-Moochee because he had a great, long moustache. Well, Raja Bada-Moustache was not his real name, his real name was Raja Cheetha Singh the 2nd. This is the story of how Raja Cheetha Singh the 2nd came to be known as Raja Bada-Moochee Dildaar.


     

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  • Foreword

    Foreword

    [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Childhood, that chimeric phase in one’s life, where the one going through it, just wants to get done with it and those who have emerged on the other side wish to return to.  All at once enchanting, perplexing, astonishing, amusing and challenging, this chapter of our lives is the longest and an often visited one. It is also the most important, as the experiences that shape childhood is the basis or building block of adult life. It is the foundation stone so to speak and, therefore, it is only natural that the Fundamatics team decided to dedicate an entire issue to this magical theme.

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  • Storytellers: The Tribe of the Hope Whisperers

    Storytellers: The Tribe of the Hope Whisperers

    When humankind attained wisdom and knew all that is good and bad. There was born the teller of tales; a small tribe of people (men and women), who watched and observed what no one saw. Creative, imaginative, highly skilled and having a perfect understanding of the human psyche, these people have the ability to touch the human heart with their words alone. To weave tales, by laying the selective warp and weft of time and space. Piece by piece, word by word, they build up perfect universes out of nothingness. Like a conjuring artist. They transpose the partakers in a time and place removed from the present. This ability gives them immense power, for unknown even to themselves they can mould and shape the thoughts of an entire generation. Call them influencers if you will. 

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