Story behind Lord Ganesha's broken tusk

We all could see Lord Ganesha having two tusks and can you notice one of it is broken?! There is a story behind the broken tusk. Once Lord Vyas wanted someone to write Mahabharata as he recite it. He placed his request to Lord Brahma, who in turn suggested Ganesha as the apt person for this dutiful act. When Vyasji approached Ganesha and told his request, Ganesha consented to it with one condition. It was that, Vyasji has to recite continuously without pausing in the middle. Vyasji agreed to Ganesha's condition and replied that he would in turn want Ganesha to scribble only after knowing the meaning of the recitation.

Then started the record of our epic Mahabharata. While writing fast, Ganesha's tip of the quill got broken. Ganesha did not want to pause his writing, and so immediately he broke part of his right tusk and continued writing. He displayed the importance of performing one's duty at all times. This event left him with a broken task and the name "Eka Dantam".

Evergreen memories of a trip to a story!

We all like to travel to different places and explore and that's even more special and fun for kids.

Summer 2012, we went to Italy along with our parents. It was a very nice trip and we had lots of fun. One day, Barathraam asked my husband Sriram to tell some story and when Sriram told some incidents from our Italy trip, Barathraam got hooked into it and asked more of those.

I got excited seeing Barathraam's longing to recollect his trip experiences, so thought of making it a story! Took some of the photos from our trip where Barathraam enjoyed more, added some captions to them, took print out and had them as our Italy Trip Story Book.

For the next weeks, every day he had a look at those and relished his trip experiences. For the first time, we had used the trip photos creatively and turned them to be alive each day. Here is the book.. 

Its so easy to make and gives your kid a chance to recollect and relish your trip experiences.