About

My name is Praveen Kumar. This site started as bedtime stories.

I have a child who loved to be read to, and I quickly found myself running out of material that felt right - the picture books were too short, the children's mythology collections were either too sanitized or too academic, and I wanted to tell the older stories in a voice that felt human. So I began telling them from memory, then writing them down, then digging into the source traditions to get the details right. What started as one parent's project has grown into this collection: stories from Arabic, Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, Indian, Japanese, Norse, and Roman traditions, told as stories rather than catalogued as data.

Every story on this site has been carefully edited to read like a person wrote it - dropped into the action, free of "themes-of" filler, and respectful of the source tradition's voice. At the top of each page is a short fact-card so you can see at a glance who the figures are, where the story comes from, and what it left behind in the world. The longer prose underneath is for reading.

If you find an error - a misnamed god, a wrong city, a missing detail - please tell me through the contact page. The corpus is large and one person built it; I would rather know.

Thank you for reading.

— Praveen Kumar