Once there lived an astronomer in a town. As we know that astronomers are sky-watchers, he used to go out at night in the open and watch the stars. One night, he was gazing at the sky closely and the same time moving ahead. He got so much involved in sky-watching that he stumbled against […]
Once a cat was relaxing in a garden when it saw a dog, playing freely. It thought, ‘It must be so nice to be play freely.’ This feeling of envy made it so bad-tempered, that it didn’t even wag its tail at its master, who came to give it some milk. Then it saw a
Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon player, was dying of AIDS. From the world over, he received letters from his fans. One of them dolefully asked, “Why does God have chosen you for such a dire or egregious disease?” To this Arthur Ashe replied, “The world over 5 crore children start playing tennis, 50 lakh learn
Once a wife and her husband were going to their village sitting on a horse. On the way, many people looked at them and said, “Both of them are sitting on a weak horse.” To hear this the wife jumped off the horse. As they moved, they met many people who said, “Look at the
In a hot summer day, a lion was sitting under the shade of a big tree. After some time he fell asleep. Near by, there was a hole, in which there lived a mouse. When the lion was sleeping, the mouse came out of its hole. Unaware of the lion’s strength it thought of waking
Once a monkey was wandering in a forest searching for food. As to his bad luck, he got caught up in a trap. He tried his best to get free but lost his tail in the struggle. He felt very small, thinking that now every monkey would laugh at him. He felt so sad that
Once upon a time, two cats found a piece of bread and cut it into two pieces. But one piece was slightly bigger than the other. Both the cats wanted the bigger piece. Then they went to a monkey, who was taking a rest in the branch of a tree. They asked him to sort
Once a fisherman was reclining against the dock with a few fish in his bucket. A rich merchant was passing over there and noticed him. He asked, “Why are you squandering your time in rest? Go and trap some more fish.” The fisherman replied, “I have caught all I need for today and I am
There was a kind-hearted and generous king. Once there spread famine in his kingdom. There remained nothing to eat, so the king ordered to open the godown of the grains of his kingdom so that poor people might also get benefited and eat the food of the kitchen of his palace. Finally, that time when
Once there was a ravenous bear that went riverside in search of food. He started searching for fish into the water. He saw a fish and pounced on it but soon left the fish thinking, that it’s too small to fill his stomach. Then he caught another fish and found it too small, so he
Once in a country, a very devastating famine occurred which caused many creatures to die before time. There lived a group of doves. The oldest dove said to them to move towards a mountainous place, where they could at least have little grains. But they found nothing. Among them there was a greedy dove, who
This is the story of that epoch when there was no entity of light, so people were anxious to bring the light in villages because darkness made their life gloomy. So they had decided to throw one basket of darkness daily. This custom continued for long. In that village, a man named Ashish lived; he
Once, a king decided to give his kingdom’s biggest prize to a boy for his bravery. But the boy was not happy with this. When the king came to know, he himself went to the boy and said him to ask for anything as a reward. But the boy again denied taking anything. When the
Once there was a gardener having a beautiful garden of flower-plants-mostly rose plants. By chance a lily plant blossomed near a rose-bush. A lily plant is believed to yield flowers that never fade and have an everlasting beauty. But the rose flowers have a short life. The lily said to the rose, “How beautiful you
Once a saint lived in a distant isolated hut. Yet, people went to him to get panacea for their problems. One day, an enormously wealthy man decided to go there and inquire about religion in the world. He asked, “Life can’t run without money, so wealth should be given more priority than religion.” Then the