Friday, January 16, 2015

Storybook Favorites

The first storybook I looked at from the past list of Indian Epics storybooks was Dharma News Weekly. I enjoyed how this storybook was set up in a newspaper layout with the author's "introduction" written as a note from the editor-in-chief and the titles given to each story/article were well-devised—like "Legal: Ahalya Released, Indra Convicted," for example. Because I held a similar position on my high school newspaper, writing stories as news articles really captured my attention.

The second storybook that became a favorite was "Tales of Dr. Love." Not only the title, but the content too got me interested. The title gave me a sense of what I was about to venture into and as a girl who loves reading about romance, of course I clicked on the button that lead me to the site. The stories were titled with the names of pairs from which I assumed they were stories of the love between the two. The font gave the storybook a very old classical look to it too, something I thought was a nice touch and went well with the whole concept the author was trying to portray.

The last storybook that I looked at was "Asuras Anonymous." The title was what first drew my attention and going in without any expectations or an idea of the layout and the contents, I was nicely surprised with a quote about good and evil. The conflict between good versus evil, that whole theme, was always something that peaked my interest, so having that as the very first thing when entering the website was a nice touch. Looking at some of the stories though, there were a few things I wish were done differently, but all in all it was creative and well executed.



Good versus Evil
Quote from "Asuras Anonymous"

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