COMICS:- # "Two Rogues" # "Sly Servant" # "Tit For Tat" # "Compliment" # "Stupid Robbers" # "Greedy Miser" # "Mistake" STORIES:- # "Clever" # "Demon" # "Gift" # "Monkeys" # "Shelter" # "Daydreamer" # "Modesty" # "Dogs/Cats" # "Wind/Sun" # "Wish" # "Gifts" # "Smart" # "Pig's Life" # "Miser" # "Drum" # "Grateful Deer" # "Two Sons" # "Two Frogs" # "Elephant's Nose" # "Playful Monkey" # "Talkative Turtle" # "Donkey Fell Into A Well" # "Their Master's Voice" # "The Game" # "Outsmarted!"

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Aesop's fable retold - THE WIND AND THE SUN

The Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger. Suddenly they saw a traveller coming down the road, and the Sun said: "I see a way to decide our dispute. Whichever of us can cause that traveller to take off his cloak shall be regarded as the stronger. You begin."

So the Sun retired behind a cloud, and the Wind began to blow as hard as it could upon the traveller. But the harder he blew the more closely did the traveller wrap his cloak round him, till at last the Wind had to give in despair.

Then the Sun came out and shone in all his glory upon the traveller, who soon found it too hot to walk with his cloak on.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Kindness affects more than severity.

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Hello! I'm Joygopal Podder...

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About Me

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