Once Upon A Time in Bharatha Desham

The book is a collection of short stories of times when there was a monarchy and how people are treated based on the varna system present and how some changed and what happened.

The first story itself was the story of the woman Poovi who sang a song for the prince from a chamber. She can't touch the little kid and make him sleep as she was from a poor family who was in the sanitation department before and after moved to help the prince to sleep using her song. The kid was made to believe that the song was sung by Yaksha but he found out and he started playing with Poovi and sleep on her lap which was seen by some official in the Palace and later she was overthrown without any job and but they came to her because of the Prince.

There are stories like this with the problems that were in the society some centuries and even now. The stories all are so well written so well such an easy read. If you like history and mythology this book will be interesting for you.