Stories have so much power and so does whoever controls the narrative. It is time to dissect and analyze these stories.
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The Builders Club Startup Founders Podcast is an initiative by the builders club for founders to upskill themselves and understand the founder mindset. We have the top startup founders of companies like Myntra, PayTM, InstaMojo, PayPal, DarwinBox, and the likes coming to our studio and talking about what it takes to build a startup. ------------------------------------- Know more about us: https://www.thebuildersclub.me/ Get notifications of all TBC events right on whatsapp : https://bit.ly/ ...
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Past few months have been tough on everyone, but while others quit, winners adapt. In this podcast, get inspired and bounce back higher with great comeback stories of the tops industry stalwarts and Bollywood stars. This is a Fever FM production, brought to you by HT Smartcast.
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Shyatto Raha, Co-founder, MyHealthcare | Building Healthcare for Bharat | The Builders Club Startup Founders Podcast #70
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Shyatto Raha is the Founder & CEO of MyHealthcare. He has spent 20+ years in the media ecosystem and is now working on digitizing & digitalising the Indian healthcare ecosystem. MyHealthcare is a digital speciality healthcare ecosystem that partners with hospitals in setting up an integrated, digital patient care ecosystem – placing the patient in …
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Ravi Handa, Creator & Podcaster | Monetizing Twitter | The Builders Club Startup Founders Podcast #69
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Ravi Handa is the founder of The Desi Fire Podcast - a podcast where he talks about Financial Independence and Retiring Early. He has been a founder himself, running and successfully exiting Handakafunda.com and nowadays spends his time talking about business, startups and FIRE on social media. He is also one of the first guys to be monetized by Tw…
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Jinen Dedhia, Co-founder, DronaHQ | The No Code Revolution | The Builders Club Startup Founders Podcast #68
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For all those who are building tools using no-code, this one is for you guy. How many of you dream of building a SaaS business? How many of you are willing to spend 17 years building it? and how many of you want to do it without raising any money? We have one who is profitable, clocking upwards of $2.5mn ARR, but has picked just $1mn funding! Ou…
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Niyati Merchant, Co-founder, Arre Voice | The Changing Content Paradigm | The Builders Club Startup Founders Podcast #67
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Niyati Merchant, cofounder, Arre Voice has spent close to a decade in the content ecosystem, and talks to us about the changing content paradigm. Arré Voice is a short-form, women-first audio social app. The app has a rapidly growing community across relationships, storytelling, K-pop, K-Drama, music, mental wellness, spirituality in multiple lang…
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Episode 100 - The Golden Valley (Sicilian story)
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The Golden Valley is a Sicilian story, taken from Ruth Manning-Sanders’ collection A Book of Monsters. One royal family locates the natural phenomenon of their dreams: a whole valley of gold. This is a story of a king and queen who are wonderful parents, three brothers who love each other, and a monster who loves a golden architectural flair. Somet…
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‘Gretel in Darkness’ is a 1975 poem by Louise Glück exploring trauma. The poem is a dramatic monologue spoken by Gretel, the little girl from the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel. In the poem, Gretel directly addresses the readers/listeners and Hansel, and offers her intimate thoughts reflecting on how she is haunted psychologically by the memory of…
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Episode 98 - The Ebony Horse (Persian Folktale)
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The Ebony Horse is a story from the Arabian Nights, also known as the One Thousand and One Nights. The tale borders on being ‘science fiction’ before the genre existed. It sees a cunning inventor design an ebony horse which is capable of flying. A prince uses the horse to travel to other lands, where he falls in love with a princess. It is an enter…
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Chqbook Founders - Vipul Sharma, Rajat Kumar and Mohit Goel | Empowering MSMEs with Fintech | The Builders Club Startup Founders Podcast #66
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Chqbook is India’s leading neobank which offers solutions for India’s 64 million small business owners. Aligning with the vision of Digital India Initiative, Chqbook aims to empower small business owners with digital access to financial services across banking lending and insurance. Vipul Sharma, Co-founder and CEO at Chqbook, has done BA Honors …
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Episode 97 - The Red Pearls (Chinese Fairy Tale)
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The Red Pearls is a Chinese Fairytale with a familiar set-up of love, magic, and immortality but takes a delightfully unexpected approach. It is a story of Liu Hai and Ninth Sister and how they have each other’s back and support each other. There’s a golden toad to stir things up but tune in to find out who’s side the godly magic is on.…
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Namit Chugh - Principal, W Health Ventures | Building the Future of Health care Delivery | The Builders Club Startup Founders Podcast #65
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Namit Chugh, Venture Capitalist at W Health Ventures, joined us for the LIVE recording of the Watercooler Conversations and will talk about “Building the Future of Health care Delivery”. W Health Ventures, founded in 2019 by Sunil Wadhwani and his family, is a Boston based venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build the future of h…
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Episode 96 - The Lion, the Tiger, and the Eagle (Greek fairy tale)
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The Lion, the Tiger, and the Eagle is a Greek fairy tale from the Ruth Manning-Sanders collection Damian and the Dragon. It is a story of three brothers and three sisters and how their father’s dying words chooses their marital destiny.By Vipul Sharma
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Episode 95 - The Lass Who Went Out at the Cry of Dawn (Scottish folklore)
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The Lass Who Went Out at the Cry of Dawn is a story from Sorche Nic Leodhas’ collection of Scottish folk lore, Thistle and Thyme. This is a story of a girl who goes on an adventure to rescue her sister with an unconventional weapon, thanks to her farsighted parents.By Vipul Sharma
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Episode 94 - Mainu the Frog (African Fairytale)
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Not many frogs can claim the resourcefulness of this African fairy tale’s titular character, Mainu. He helps Kiman throughout the story, from making journeys between heaven and earth, impressing lord Sun and lady Moon, to coming up with a trick to get Mainu married to the girl he is in love with, and all this without expecting anything in return.…
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Episode 93 - The Three Heads of the Well (English Folktale)
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Three Heads in the Well (or The King of Colchester’s Daughters) is a tale hundreds of years old. Listen to what happens when two daughters of the king are rewarded or punished by the fairy heads in the well.By Vipul Sharma
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Episode 92 - The Hare’s Liver (Korean folktale)
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The Hare’s Liver is a folk tale from Korea, in honor of the Chinese New Year (Year of the Rabbit). It tells the story of an ailing Dragon King who is told he can recover his health only through eating a hare’s liver. He sends Turtle to get a hare from dry land. Remarkably, Turtle successfully returns with Hare, but can the Hare escape through his s…
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Episode 91 - Martin and the Lions (Austrian fairytale)
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Martin and the Lions is taken from Ruth Manning-Sanders’ 1988 collection A Cauldron of Witches. The story has a nasty witch and a conscientious hero, Martin. The story has elements of animal cruelty and progresses with how Martin manages to free the lions from the witch’s curse.By Vipul Sharma
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Episode 90 - The White Snake (Grimm’s fairy tale)
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“The White Snake” begins with a king who eats a bite of the white snake every evening, and rules his kingdom with such power, it seems he knows what will happen in it before anyone possibly could. He’s our only glimpse into the larger implications of the power of the white snake—once the king’s servant discovers the secret, the story becomes all ab…
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Rahul Raj - CoFounder Flobiz | Neobanking and the SMB Ecosystem | The Builders Club Startup Founders Podcast #64
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Rahul Raj, Founder and CEO of FloBiz. Flobiz has emerged as a growing global economic startup network to drive technology inclusion in Small and Medium Businesses. Based in Bengaluru, the venture established a neobank for SMBs backed by renowned investors like Sequoia Capital, Elevation Capital,Greenoaks Capital, Beenext and Think Investments. Its …
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Episode 89 - The Three Snake-Leaves (German fairy tale)
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The Three Snake-Leaves is a Brothers Grimm fairy tale about a young man who marries a princess. When she dies he is buried alive with her. Using folk medicine troupe in the story, while in the tomb he brings her back to life with three snake-leaves. She comes to life but is not the same, she betrays him with another man and that betrayal leads to h…
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Episode 88 - A Bought Dream (Turkmenistan Folktale)
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‘A Bought Dream’ is an interesting story where it seems like someone threw half a dozen fairy tale elements into a blender just to see what would happen, making it a perfect story to start the year with. It is a story of Sarsembai and a dream he has for his life. He goes through a journey to realize if his dream has come true and if he earns a happ…
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Episode 87 - The Snow Queen, Gerda, and Kai (Danish fairytale)
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The story of Snow Queen, Gerda, and Kai is perfect for this cold winter. After tiny fragments of a magic mirror become lodged in one of Kai’s eyes and his heart, his personality begins to change and he starts to turn cold. It then becomes easy for the Snow Queen to abduct the boy. Kai is carried off to the Snow Queen's faraway palace. Join Gerda on…
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Atul Rai - Founder, Staqu Technologies | AI & DeepTech companies | The Builders Club Startup Founders Podcast #63
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Atul is the cofounder of Staqu technologies. Staqu strives to utilise technology in solving real-world problems. Founded in 2015, the company provides state-of-the-art image recognition,language independent proprietary speaker identification, and text processing, including sentiment analysis, text classification and summarization.Staqu was handpick…
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Rahul Rana - General Atlantic, Lux Capital | Moonshot companies | The Builders Club Startup Founders Podcast #62
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Rahul Rana is a venture builder and investor with specialties in finance and astronomy. He works for Lux Capital, one of the most prestigious venture capital firms in the world, and writes for Not Boring, an influential newsletter with a community of 125,000+. He has past experience in nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and public policy. ---…
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Episode 86 - Jólakötturinn, The Giant Yule Cat (Icelandic legend)
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In a holiday-themed episode this is an Icelandic legend of Jólakötturinn, aka “Yule Cat”. This monstrous feline stalks the entire country looking for those who aren’t wearing new clothes on Christmas Eve. Upon finding such a poor soul, the Yule Cat spares no mercy and eats the human before resuming the hunt for others. To find out more, let’s take …
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Episode 85 - Baker’s Dozen (American folktale)
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A baker was well known for his honesty as well as for his fine Saint Nicholas cookies. He always gave his customers exactly what they paid for — not more, and not less. So, how could he agree with a mysterious old woman on Saint Nicholas Day when she insists that a dozen is thirteen?The woman’s curse puts an end to the baker’s business, and he beli…
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Sharmin Ali - CoFounder, Instoried | Forbed 40U40 | Zero to IPO bound in 3 years | The Builders Club Startup Founders Podcast #61
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Sharmin is one of the Fortune 40 under 40 Entrepreneurs and Forbes’ story target for Women in SaaS. Entrepreneur, author and public speaker- Sharmin Ali founded Artirightis Theatre Group and Instoried. Instoried is an AI driven tool that analyses the emotional parameters of your content to get social marketing right. Instoried is an augmented writi…
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Episode 84 - Little Mukra (Arabic Fairytale)
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Little Mukra is an Arabic fairytale about an unlikely hero, a dwarf, whose enemy is not a vengeful sorceress or dastardly king, but the widespread bigotry of ordinary people. With the help of one-woman animal welfare league, a dog, and some magic he finds his purpose.By Vipul Sharma
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Episode 83 - Kate Cracketnuts (English Fairytale)
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Kate Cracketnuts is an English story taken from Angela Carter’s Book of Fairy Tales and the premise is familiar: a king with a beautiful daughter called Anna marries a queen with a comparatively plain one called Kate. Guess who interprets the genetic lottery as a personal insult! Here’s a clue – it’s not Kate. Instead she rescues her beautiful sist…
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Episode 82 - The Three Sisters (Native American Legend)
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In this Thanksgiving “decolonizing our dinner” story, meet the sustainer of Indigenous cultures for centuries and one of the original examples of regenerative farming, The Three Sisters. The Three Sisters (corn, squash, and beans) planted or eaten together create an ideal environment for success, and hold a strong spiritual and cultural connection …
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Episode 81 - Why the Opossum’s Tail is Bare (A Cherokee Legend)
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Opossums, awe-Inspiring but often underappreciated, are marsupials with many fascinating attributes and superheroes when it comes to cleaning up around your property. Opossum is a loanword from Powhatan, an Indigenous language from what is now the Virginia area. Additionally, a number of Indigenous tribes had origin stories of the opossum, which sp…
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Episode 80 - Crow Brings the Daylight Native American (Inuit) folktale
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November is Native American Heritage Month in the US so here is a fascinating Native American story. Crow Brings the Daylight is a folktale of the Inuit people tells the the story of crow who brought daylight to the remote and dark Arctic region. How did the crow manage to pull off this amazing feat? Find out in this episode.…
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Episode 79 - Katchen the Cat (German witch tale)
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This is a Halloween special and what’s more halloweeny than a witch and a cat. This German story is from A Book of Cats and Creatures, called Katchen the Cat. The witch in this fairy tale is a genuinely nasty piece of work, a cannibalistic opportunist who exploits anyone and everyone she meets. She’s a good villain, and our cat, Katchen – who is a …
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Vatsal Kanakiya - Principal & CTO, 100x.vc | Investing in Early Stage and Web3 Startups | The Builders Club Startup Founders Podcast #60
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Vatsal is Principal & CTO at 100X.VC and Web3 investor @ 2AM Ventures and Mehta Ventures. 100X.VC is the first VC to invest in early stage startups using India SAFE Notes. While being an angel investor, he looks after diligencing and sourcing Web3 deals for 2AM VC as well! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------…
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Episode 78 - Moti-katika and the Water Witch (South-East African story)
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Today’s story is from South-East Africa called Moti-katika and the Water Witch. As the title suggests it is a story of Moti-katika and the water witch, but it is also a story of a mother who is underestimated by the witch from the moment they meet but never for one minute plans to give up on her clever and kind son, Moti-katika.…
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Episode 77 - Tow-how and the Witch (Papua New Guinea Witch-tale)
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October is spooky season and is the season of witches. This story is from Papua New Guinea, called Tow-how and the Witch. It is a story of Tow-how, his magic disc, and his adventurous exploration of an island where a scary witch lives. Nobody ever goes to that island, if they do they never come back. Will Tow-how be able to come back unscathed or w…
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Vijetha Shastry- Associate Director, Dexter Capital | How an Investor thinks | The Builders Club Startup Founders Podcast #59
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The Builders Club got in touch with Vijetha Shastry- Associate Director, Dexter Capital, a VC firm focussing on growth stage companies, new age entrepreneurs in their funding process. Vijetha Shastry has about 28 years of experience working with different startup communities like NASSCOM, TiE, BHIVE and how he is helping start apps grow via Dexter …
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Udit Goenka- Founder and CEO Pitchground and FirstSales | Building SaaS Startups | The Builders Club Startup Founders Podcast #58
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Udit is an entrepreneur who has bootstrapped his way to making his business a $20M valuation. He is also an angel investor in 20+ startups and a member of the Forbes Business Council. Udit has tons of experience and learnings in the industry that he was keen on sharing with us! -----------------------------------------------------------------------…
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Episode 76 - The Little Grey Donkey (Swedish Fairytale)
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This is a fairy tale that is completely new to me, a Swedish story from the 1988 Ruth Manning-Sanders collection A Cauldron of Witches. It is a story of Jock and his friend troll, with whose help Jock end up being rich and married to a princess.By Vipul Sharma
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Episode 75 - The Donkey Lettuce (German Fairytale)
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The Donkey Lettuce is a German fairy tale from the 1981 collection A Book of Witches by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is a story of a hunter who has magical possessions he got from killing a bird and a witch who pushes her daughter to extract the magical possessions from the hunter but end up being a victim to hunter’s revenge.…
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Episode 74 - The Beekeeper and the Bewitched Hare (Scottish Fairytale)
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This week’s story comes from Thistle & Thyme: Tales & Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas. This is a story of a beekeeper who lives alone in a cottage on the moor with his bees. He took care of a blue-eyed hare only to discover that reality was different from his expectations.By Vipul Sharma
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Jatin Chaudhary | Co-Founder, e-Chai ventures | Building Global Communities | The Builders Club Startup Founders Podcast #57
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Jatin Chaudhary is the Co-founder of e-Chai ventures and has a knack for entrepreneurship, international trade and business, event organization, startups, etc. He also spoke at the D2C meetup in Ahmedabad at the Center For Innovation Incubation & Entrepreneurship, IIM Ahmedabad. He was a Global Shaper at the World Economic Forum as well! He has abo…
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Taran Chhabra | Founder, Neeman’s Shoes | Building a sustainable brand in India | The Builders Club Startup Founders Podcast #56
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Taran Chhabra is the Founder of Neeman’s Shoes. He completed his graduation from Northern Illinois University and is a business strategist and data analysis expert with about 17 years of experience working with a2c IT Consulting, RCG Global Services, High Point Solutions, etc. He was also in the BW 40 under 40 list and Fortune 40 under 40! Neeman’s…
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Episode 73 - The Four Clever Brothers (German Fairytale)
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The Four Clever Brothers is a story of four skilled brothers, a stolen princess, and an angry dragon. The brothers set out to learn their crafts in the big wide world and return home as skilled men: a thief, an astronomer, a hunter, and a tailor. The brothers’ are then put to the ultimate test when the princess is stolen away from the kingdom by an…
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Episode 72 - The Red Shoes (Danish fairytale)
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The Red Shoes is a story of a young girl who puts on a pair of red shoes that will not allow her to stop dancing; she must dance and dance, in a grotesque mockery of happiness. It is written by Hans Christian Andersen, and is a depressing story which vilifies and punishes the little girl who committed the heinous crime of wanting to look pretty.…
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Episode 71 - Jorinde and Joringel (German fairy tale)
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Jorinde and Joringel is a German fairy tale. The plot is set in motion when they accidentally stray onto the property of a witch, who punishes them for trespassing. The witch punishes Jorinde by turning her into a bird and keeping her caged in her castle and Joringel by casting a spell on him that freezes him temporarily. Joringel when released fro…
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Episode 70 - The Goblins at the Bath House (Estonian fairy tale)
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The Goblins at the Bath House is an Estonian fairy tale, taken from Ruth Manning-Sanders’ A Book of Ghosts and Goblins. It is a story of what a clever girl does when encountered by a group of goblins who want to kidnap her for an impromptu wedding.By Vipul Sharma
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Episode 69 - The Seven Leavenings (Palestinian fairy tale)
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The Seven Leavenings is a Palestinian story and is taken from Angela Carter’s Book of Fairy Tales. The story is about an old woman who is a baker, a strategist, and likes to travel. While baking some freaky bread, she travels and tries to resolve domestic disputes.By Vipul Sharma
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Episode 68 - The Tinderbox (Danish Fairytale)
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The Tinderbox is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a soldier who acquires a magic tinderbox capable of summoning three powerful dogs to do his bidding. Sometimes the heroes of fairy tales are not people you would want to know.By Vipul Sharma
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Episode 67 - Weaves of Magic by Hambrumai (Indian Tribal Folktale)
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This folktale from Arunachal Pradesh’s (India) Mishmi tribe speaks about the origin of weaving, how the art of weaving was shared from the first weaver to the other tribes, and weaving becoming a work of God within the tribes. The god Matai taught the art of weaving to one girl, Hambrumai, who used nature as inspiration and guide for her designs.…
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A woman gets a daughter, Uletka, by striking a deal with the Sun, to return the child back when she is twelve years old. Sun takes the girl back but after realizing how unhappy the girl is decides to send her back to her mother. But, there is a brave hare, a witch who wants to feed her family, and an intense chase on Uletka’s way back home.…
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