Tenzing Norgay was born on 29th May 1914 in Khumbu, Solukhumbu District, Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal and he died on 9th May 1986 (aged 72 years) in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. The first man along with Edmund Hillary to have climbed Mount Everest, Tenzing was a Nepalese mountaineer of Tibetian descent who worked as a porter. […]
A visitor was announced while Silver Plume discussed the details with his minister. Meghavarna, the King of Crows, had come from the island kingdom of Sinhala and wished to pay homage to Silver Plume. King Silver Plume was very happy. Meghavarna, he knew, had travelled far and wide and would, therefore, be very experienced and
King Silver Plume heard all that Long-Bill said. And they waited along with Chakravaka, the goose who was the prime minister, for the parrot to come. But Chakravaka wished to speak privately to the King. He advised the King to send a spy into the enemy’s kingdom before going into a war. The spy should
Mandamati decided to check up how his wife behaved in his absence. So one day, he told her he had work in another city and would return late. But he came back and hid under the bed in his house. When he left, the wife invited her lover home. They sat chatting on the bed,
Sir Edmund Hillary was born on 20th July 1919 in Auckland, New Zealand, and passed away on 11th January 2008 (aged 88-89 years) in Auckland, New Zealand. The first person to climb Mount Everest, along with Tenzing Norgay, they stayed there only a few minutes as the air was so thin. He summited several other
“Sir,” said Long-Bill, narrating this to King Silver Plume, “I tried to tell the parrot that I wasn’t the wicked fellow! But he was not ready to trust me.” The parrot said that people who are wicked often speak very sweetly and then he told a story about a foolish man who trusted his wife’s
All the birds were going on a pilgrimage to the sea-shore to worship the King of Birds, Garuda. A quail decided to go along in the company of a crow. On the way, there was a cowherd walking along with a pot of curds on his head. The crow would swoop down and dip into
Once, a sage lived in a dense forest. He had divine powers by praying to God for many years. One day, a mouse was wandering in the forest for food, when he was attacked by a fox. The mouse ran to the sage to save his life and the fox followed him. The sage transformed
He was a kind-hearted bird, so he looked around to see how he could protect the traveller from the direct heat of the sun’s rays. He tried to hold a leafy twig to provide him with shade, but it was heavy and he couldn’t hold it for long. Besides, the sun was moving along the
Roald Amundsen was born on 16th July 1872 in Borge, Norway, and he died on 18th June 1928 (aged 56 years), Bear Island, Norway. Roald was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions and he was the leader of the Antarctic expedition of 1910–12. The first man to visit the South Pole, Roald had originally decided
Far away on the road to Ujjayini was a large tree on which a heron and a crow lived. One day, a traveller carrying a bow and arrows sat down to rest under the tree on his way to the city. He put down his bow and arrows and was so tired that he soon
King Jewel Plume appointed a parrot to go with Long-Bill to Karpuradweepa as his messenger. But the parrot objected. “Sir, I will go,” said the parrot, “but not with this wicked crane! It is said that bad things will happen even to good people if we accompany an evil person!” The King was not sure
Bartolomeu Dias was born in about 1450, Portugal and he died on 29th May 1500 (aged 50 years) at sea near the Cape Town, South Africa. The first European mariner to go round the southernmost tip of Africa around the Cape of Good Hope to enter the Indian Ocean, Bartolomeu opened the sea route to
Long-Bill told his King that he challenged the soldiers of Jambudweepa telling them that Silver Plume was the greatest King in the world. The angry soldiers took him to their King Jewel Plume and presented him as a wicked crane who was criticising their country and king. Long-Bill said he was from Karpuradweepa. A vulture
“Lord Moon is very angry, sir,” said the Old Hare. You have entered his lake and killed the hares. They are the guardians of his lake.” This worried King Elephant, who replied, “It was done by mistake, sir. We are very sorry, but we only wanted to drink water and crushed the hares without intending