Once, a lion and a lioness lived in the forest with their twin cubs. One day, the lion went to hunt for food but he didn’t get anything. After wandering too long he found a jackal cub and brought him home. The lion said, “Today our cubs will eat the jackal cub as meal.” Then […]

Once a farmer bought a new lamp from the nearby market. When he reached home, it was dark. So, he filled the lamp with oil and putting a wick into it lighted it. It began to shine with a clear steady light. The lamp felt proud of itself and on its clear light. It started

Once, there was an old lion. He was unable to kill any creature. So, he said to himself, “I must do something to remove my hunger; else I would die of starvation.” He kept thinking. At last an idea came in his mind. He decided to lie down in the cave pretending to be ill.

There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his son to teach not to judge things too quickly, so he sent them to look for a pear tree. The first son went in winter, the second in spring, the third in summer, and the youngest son in autumn. When they returned, he asked

Once a king was in his court when a young beggar came to him and asked for some money. He also said, “I am very poor; God hasn’t given me anything. Please have mercy on me.” Hearing this the king said, “Well, I will give you two gold coins but you will have to give

A very pugnacious woman once lived in a village. All she had was only a cock that used to crow in the morning to wake people up. Her callousness really exasperated the inhabitants there. One day, the lady decided to leave the village but at the last time she cursed the village that there wouldn’t

Once upon a time, a wolf while wandering in a forest reached a field of sugarcane belonging to a farmer. But the fact is that wolves don’t eat sugarcane. The wolf was about to move away when he saw a horse coming towards him. He decided to wait for him and extend a hand of

In the 20th century, in a palace, a king was really worried about the increasing number of rats, so he reared a cat, who could diminished the rats. The petrified rats called a meeting and decided to tie a bell in the cat’s neck. But the cowardly rats couldn’t do that and said that it

Once a stranger entered a village and saw an old man. Then he asked the old man, “How are the people of his village? Are they good or cruel?” The old man didn’t reply but asked him the same question, about the behaviour of the people of his village. Then the stranger replied angrily, “They

An archer at a young age became proficient in archery. That made him so much conceited. He showed no gratitude towards his guru. One day, his guru asked him to accompany him to a mountainous place in quest of truth. In the midst of their journey they found a deep gulf which was difficult to

Once, a man in cloudy weather with zero visibility was climbing. He was only a few feet away from the top of the mountain. He slipped and fell into the air, falling at a great speed. He kept falling and remembered all good and bad episodes of his life. While falling he was thinking how

A very proud sailor and his wife made a plan to go for a long journey through their splendid ship. Being her favourite and loving pet, she took her Dalmatian along with them. When they were far out at sea, a terrible storm overturned their ship.Both the husband and the wife were caught in this