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    Royal Fantasy Stories
    Royal Fantasy Stories
    Royal Fantasy Stories
    Ebook115 pages42 minutes

    Royal Fantasy Stories

    By Harshikaa Udasi and Amar Chitra Katha

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    The evil magician, Adhikara, who was outwitted by a twelve-year-old child...

    Kind Nilanjana, whose good, selfless heart earned her the love of a sensible prince...

    Clever Chandralalat, whose quick thinking saved his life and reunited an estranged family...

    Fulfil your fascination for stories of princes and princesses through this rich selection that combines royalty with fantasy.

    Adapted from the original AMAR CHITRA KATHA comics!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarper Children's
    Release dateSep 5, 2023
    ISBN9789356994539
    Royal Fantasy Stories
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    Harshikaa Udasi

    Harshikaa Udasi is a journalist with over 20 years of experience. She runs Book Trotters Club, a book club for children in Mumbai and Deolali, and also online. She is the author of Friends Behind Walls and Kittu's Very Mad Day, which won the FICCI Best Children's Book Award (English) 2017. She has also written several short stories, notably in the anthologies Flipped, Thank God It's Caturday! and On Your Marks.

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      Royal Fantasy Stories - Harshikaa Udasi

      THE PRINCE AND THE MAGICIAN

      This story must be over a thousand years old. And old stories are magic – unusual, unbelievable, and certainly not ‘normal’ like what normal is today. It was a different time, and the people living back then were very different. This story is about a twelve-year-old boy and his quest to find his parents. Let’s start at the very beginning, which, some people say, is a very good place to start.

      In a small kingdom called Eddupuram, there lived seven princesses, all sisters, with their husbands, seven princes, all brothers. The youngest princess, Bala Nagamma, was the most beautiful among them. In the region, there was a town named Mantramupuram, where there lived a mighty and evil magician named Adhikara. He could do whatever he wanted. What he didn’t like, he could destroy, and what he liked, he could make his own. No wonder people did not like him. He lived a very lonely life – all alone in a vast fortress.

      Once, when the seven princes had left the palace to put down a rebellion that had risen in a distant part of their kingdom, Bala Nagamma gave birth to a son, whom the sisters named Balaraju. The princesses loved the tiny tot who had brought them great joy. In their happiness, they remained unaware of the approaching danger.

      Exactly seven days after Balaraju’s birth, Adhikara, the evil magician, travelled to the kingdom of Eddupuram. There he saw the beautiful Bala Nagamma and decided that he wanted to marry her. He ordered her to come along with him to his fortress. She, of course, flatly refused.

      WHAT ADHIKARA WANTS IS WHAT ADHIKARA GETS, he roared, and with a swish of his wand, he transformed Bala Nagamma into a dog, who followed him straight back to Mantramupuram.

      Her sisters panicked and sent a messenger on horseback to fetch the brothers. Sadly, by the time the brothers returned, Bala Nagamma had been imprisoned by Adhikara in his fortress at Mantramupuram. Taking a vow to defeat the evil magician, the princes galloped off on horseback to Mantramupuram. But none of them returned. Ever.

      Adhikara had mastered magic, and he used it for evil purposes. The six sisters found that whatever they did, as non-magicians, they couldn’t counter his magic. So they silently lamented over their husbands and youngest sister, and took care of the only child in the family – Balaraju. This continued till the boy was almost twelve years old.

      This is when the story changes, like patterns through a slight turn of a kaleidoscope.

      For Balaraju, all his aunts were his mothers, and whenever he would ask about his father, they would tell him that he was a merchant who had to travel all the time. As a young child, Balaraju had never questioned this. Now, when he was nearly twelve, he once saw his friend’s father, also a merchant, return home after a long period of travel. That day, he went to his aunt and asked her why he hadn’t seen his father in years. The aunt could no longer keep the family secret from him. Balaraju heard the story and was in complete shock. Enraged by the despicable behaviour of Adhikara, he decided to seek him out and avenge their fate.

      Balaraju was young, he was inexperienced, and he did not have the power of magic. Yet, he had a strong goal: to look for his parents and his uncles, to reunite his

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