Instilling Values through Short Stories with Special Reference to Sudha Murty’s Grandma’s Bag of Stories

Abstract

Values, like charity, begin at home. Nevertheless we live in a world where digitalizing is everything, and digitalization throws itself into everything from the way we work, communicate, play and even the way we raise our kids. For the most part, it is Wi-fi that brings people in the families together. The exquisite art of coming together to listen to stories from grandmothers is quietly fading away from our absorbed life-style. Story telling is a legacy so lovingly bestowed to us down the generations. The most cherished values for a life time have been endearingly shared through stories around the world. The present paper focuses on the values and life skills imparted in Sudha Murty’s Grandma’s Bag of Stories. Murty has most amusingly enwrapped the values in attractive envelopes and presented them for the child readers.