Kahani - a bed time story for children

Long Long Ago…. There were three angels - Kalpana, Hashya and Nidhra - living in a village known as Nellai in India. They had a beautiful house with a huge garden where every child in the village liked to play. The children would tell a lot of stories to their parents whenever they returned home after playing in the garden. Each day all the three angels went to different directions and met the children. Kalpana would give the children Dreams. Hashya would make the children Laugh. And Nidhra would make them Sleep peacefully. This went on for decades. One day the three angels were sitting and talking over a cup of tea. They were sharing their experiences with the children. Hashya said, “I enjoy whenever I meet children and meeting each day a new child keeps me going on. Otherwise, I would get bored of being an angel”. “Yes. Being an angel we don’t have to work. As we don’t need anything. No hunger. No sickness. No worries. We are always happy”, said Kalpana. “But even though we are meeting every day one or other child, still I feel we are making only some children happy every day. Not all”, said Nidhra. “Of course. How can we be everywhere, all the time?”. That was Hashya. “I’m planning to go to God and ask him for a solution for this”, said Hashya. So they decided to go to God the next day. The next day they went to God and presented before him their problem and asked for his help to solve this problem. God gave them a gift covered with a beautiful red silk cloth. He also gave a magic word. He said upon saying the magic word their problem would be solved. The three angels left for their home with the silk covered gift. As soon as they reached their home, Kalpana eagerly opened the gift. It was a book. Nidhra took the book and saw it was all blank pages. Hashya took it and saw only blank pages. They were confused. They were thinking why God gave them a blank book. Then they decided to say the magic word. They kept the book on the table and sat around. They said the magic word. As soon as they said the word, they felt they were pulled towards the book. They became all letters and started falling on each and every page. The letters - “Ka”, “Ha” and “Ni”- the first letters of their name took the place on the first page. It was looking like this." "Kahani". The angels were not to be seen anywhere after that. But the book was printed many times. Each time when it was printed a new story appeared. Now all the children can “Dream”, “Laugh” and “Sleep” after reading these books. All the parents read the book to their children before bed.