Once upon a time there lived a very powerful king who loved vegetable gardens and courtiers. One day he had his throne placed in the midst of a patch of brinjals.
"God be praised!" the king exclaimed. "What a beautiful vegetable is this brinjal! What exquisite shape! What smoothness of texture! What colouring!"
"Yes, Your Highness!" chorused the courtiers. "Indeed God has made the brinjal the most beautiful of all vegetables in the world."
"But it does not taste very good," remarked the king. "And doctors say it has very little food value."
"Exactly so!" agreed the courtiers. "It is the foulest of foods. It is better to take poison than eat a brinjal!"
"You are a strange lot," said the king irately. "When I praise the brinjal, you heap superlatives on it. When I say a word in criticism, you run it down in equally strong language. What kind of people are you?"
The courtiers replied in courtly courtesy: "Your Highness, we eat your salt, not that of the brinjal."
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Friday, July 6, 2007
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- 'THE NATIONAL' ABU DHABI AND 'THE TRIBUNE' NORTH INDIA (1)
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- Article about me: "Writing a new chapter at 50 plus"... (1)
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- India celebrates 63 years of Independence (1)
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- Joygopal Podder
- I head fundraising in India for a leading international anti poverty development agency. Prior to this assignment, I worked for a leading child welfare organisation. Prior to this, I worked for an NGO looking after the elderly (type Joygopal Podder on Google search and you can view newspaper reports of various activites I have organised for the causes I work for). I moved to the "not-for-profit" sector after 15 years in industry. I am a freelance writer (my stories are used in text books of schools like Delhi Public School) and a Gold Medalist Law Graduate. I have a lovely family consisting of two talented and beautiful daughters and an interior designer-turned-marketing professional wife. I was born in London, worked for some time in the Middle East and now work in Delhi and live in the suburbs. I travel 15 days a month in India and abroad - and watch movies every weekend. I am maintaining the following blogs: http://compiledbyjoygopalpodder.blogspot.com http://mysteriesaroundus.blogspot.com http://noticeboardonanythingand everything.blogspot.com http://storiesbyjoygopalpodder.blogspot.com http://grandmothertales.blogspot.com http://stockmarketswithjoygopalpodder.blogspot.com