One day, two brothers stormed into Emperor Akbar’s court. Their father had left them his property and they were fighting over it. While the younger brother wanted his share of the property, the elder brother wanted it all for himself. As they continued to quarrel, Birbal intervened. He told Akbar, “Your Majesty, long ago, after […]
Once upon a time, it rained heavily for several days resulting in floods. Many houses collapsed and household articles got carried away with the flood-water. As a matter of chance, two pitchers were also carried away by the flowing tide. One of them was made of brass while the other of baked clay. The brass
Once in a forest, a washerman was going with his donkey hanging a stone in his neck. A jeweller on his way got his eyes on the stone. He recognized the stone as a diamond but the washerman, not acquainted with this fact, got surprised to know that the jeweller wanted to buy the stone.
Once upon a time in Arabian city an atrocious dacoit lived with his enormous soldiers. A deplorable atmosphere pervaded with his presence when he used to pass any village of Arabian city because he brutally snatched all the valuable things along with money from villagers. He committed such crimes daily but at the end of
One day, Akbar said to his courtiers, “I grant you all a day’s holiday to visit the annual fair.” Everyone thanked Akbar and left for the fair. Birbal went to the fair along with his family. There, Birbal saw a learned man. The man was actually a thief. He befriended Birbal. Soon, he was awestruck
In a green and fresh pasture, there lived three cows, a white, a black and a brown cow. They were kind to one another and always grazed together. One day, a ravenous lion came to devour them all but couldn’t, because of their company. But the lion made a policy of divide and rule and
Once a saint predicted that it would not rain for seven years. When a simple farmer heard this news, he took his plough and kept in home and thought if it would not rain for seven years, then it’s not necessary to irrigate the field. He sat three days at home with no work but
One day, while walking down the road, father said to his son, “Look, a horseshoe is lying in the mud. Pick it up.” The son said, “I hate to pick up things from mud.” The father picked up the horseshoe and kept it in his pocket. On reaching the village, he sold the horseshoe and
Once there lived a rich man with his loyal servant. The man was always rejoiced because of the loyal and meticulous attitude of his servant. One evening, the man was shocked to see the broken watch of his room. He called his servant and angrily asked the reason for that. The servant replied that in
One morning, Akbar and Birbal were strolling in the royal garden. Many fruit trees, flowering plants and shrubs grew in the garden. The fragrance of the flowers pervaded the air. Akbar and Birbal were talking to each other and walked into the part of the garden where the gardener was at work. They watched him
Long, long ago, in Africa cats were ruled by roosters where cats had to collect food for the king roosters for the sake of their life. If someone dared to disobey the king, he would have given an iron comb’s burn as a punishment. So all cats were petrified of the hot comb. All cats
In village Rampur, a decrepit lady lamented his dead husband. In the beginning, her two sons showed compassion for her but soon got disenchanted with their mother. Now the pathetic condition of her life made her to go to her friend Sheela, whom she related all her problems of not even getting proper diet in
“Who did it,” a teacher was asking the class again and again. But she couldn’t get the answer. The teacher again asked, “Who did it?” Covering some steps again she got nothing. After sometime the head boy, collecting courage raised his hand and confessed his fault. Hesitatingly he said, “Yes ma’m; I have broken the
One beautiful spring morning, a merchant loaded his donkey with the bags of salt to go to the market in order to sell them. The merchant and his donkey were walking along together. They had not walked far when they reached a river on the road. Unfortunately, the donkey slipped and fell into the river
There was a temple on a hill. The priest of the temple was very old. One day, he passed away. When Akbar heard the news, he sent Birbal to choose the next priest. Birbal stood at the foot of the hill and told the candidates, “Climb up the hill and meet me in the temple