If you have grown up hearing one flood story, it is one idea from one person’s home culture. What we know is that different interpretations of the flood myth exists and this is the point highlighted by Uma in her first children’s book, Stories Of The Flood. Whether the deluge really happened and the devastation was so great that it scattered people to different corners of the world, no one will never know. One such example is the existence of stories of the great deluge from across the world. With the existence of the same kind of questions and story tellers in all cultures, the natural progression is to have different stories on the same subject. And this perspective is what I highlight in my story telling sessions at home. The half lion, half human avatar of Vishnu, that can walk upright, shows slow evolution in to human beings and so on. Next comes the boar, a mammal that lives entirely on land. The tortoise capable of living on land and water signifies the formation of land. The fish signifies that there was once nothing but water and life originated from water. To me the different avatars, in the order stated, signifies the process of evolution. The fun with these stories is that, setting aside the religious context and all impending implication that the world might be wiped out to start clean if we do not get our act together, every person can make their own interpretation. Hindu mythology talks about how Vishnu incarnated in to the human world in order to save the world from increasing evil. I grew up hearing stories of the different avatars of Vishnu, the protector in the holy trinity. These are timeless questions that exist in every culture. What happens when mankind lives in disharmony? Is there a higher power that enforces a kind of control system? Has the process of evolution from apes to man happened before? How did humans come to be what we are today?