A pregnant tigress once jumped into the midst of flock of sheep. As she did so, she went into labor, gave birth to a tiger cub, and died on the spot. The kind-hearted sheep nursed the cub and brought him among them. When they ate grass, the cub followed their example; when they bleated, he …
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One day, a loving daughter asked her partially deaf husband, Rangan, to visit her sick father. To help him, she wrote on a piece of paper all the things that Rangan had to do. She also made a list of the things her husband was supposed to say to her sick father. She asked Rangan …
There lived on a hill a man named Kochang. She was very industrious and honest. He had an unfailing faith on Puluga. He would say the Puluga was the creator of the Sun, the Moon, the Stars the Earth and the Ocean. They were all dancing to his tune. Kochang cherished a desire in the …
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The wife of a Kashmiri zamindar was perennially depressed. Any attempt at knowing the secret of her mood might have revealed a history. But each time she told her story one particular cause overshadowed everything else and that was ‘The Lazy One’. You would want to know who that lazy one was but for that …
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