Story collections like Panchatantra in Kathasaritsagara, with their didactic tinge, have enriched the corpus of Indian stories in the past. Salman Rushdie, with an innate Indian psyche and aesthetic susceptibility, has revived, in his twelfth novel Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, the good old oriental tradition of moral legends. The scene of action is twelfth century Andalucia where Ibn Rushd (Averroes), a rationalist Muslim philosopher and also a progenitor of Islamic secularism, lives. Soon, the complex story takes a new turn when Dunia, from Peristan (Fairyland), visits the abode of the great philosopher and takes partially a human form and falls in love with him. Their union leads to multitudes of children over a thousand years, who are called Duniazat (world’s tribe). After the demise of the philosopher together with the departure of the Lightning Princess for Peristan (Fairyland), their progeny, Duniazat, succeed in annihilating the evil forces. The novel acquires epic dimensions as the novelist succeeds in presenting, as in Panchatantra, a “brilliant reflection of and a serious meditation on the choices and agonies of our life in this world,” containing all our stories as well as the stories of others within the larger and grander narratives.