The clever little white-eye bird that outwitted a crafty Manipuri tomcat is just one of the many unforgettable characters populating the folk tales of "Voices in the Wind." A clever little white-eye bird that outwitted a crafty tomcat, a Manipuri cat with yellow-green eyes. A little girl in Kumaon who transforms into a bird to escape her mother’s unjust beatings and whose plaintive cries protesting her innocence still reverberate across the hills. A beautiful waterfall in the Khasi Hills called the Leap of Ka Likai after a young mother, whose daughter was killed, jumped off the precipice. For a long, long while, the Himalaya have nestled stories and fables of people, animals and spirits within its formidable folds. Stories that have floated on the mountain breeze, flowed down its sparkling streams and echoed among its rugged ridges. Stretching over 2,900 kms, the youngest mountains in the world have preserved old stories and ancient traditions that are as diverse as the region it spans.…