The Sun and the Wind Once it so happened that there was a beautiful contest between the sun and the wind. It was to see which of the two was stronger than the other. The wind was very proud of itself and its prowess. It said, "Even the mighty clouds bow before me. They know that I can drive them away. And the clouds can envelop you. So you are a small thing before me." The sun said, "It is the time that will tell you who is stronger of the two." Soon they saw a man who was wearing a coat. The sun said, "Let us see who makes the man to take off his coat." The wind tried first. I ... read more

NAUGHTY JOHN John was a very notorious boy. He was very fond of chocolates. One day he went to his neighbour who gave him some chocolates to eat. He felt very happy, quickly ate up all of them and asked for more. The aunty got angry and said that she had no more chocolates left. Then John pointed out to a box in the cupboard and asked, "Then what is there in that box?" "That box is filled with insects", replied the aunty. Later that day, on getting an opportunity, he ate up all the chocolates in the box and filled it with many insects. When aunty came to know about it, she got very an ... read more

MOST PEOPLE GAUGE THINGS BY THEIR UTILITY Once there was a farmer who owned a large garden with variety of fruit-trees. But one mango tree got barren. Though, it no longer had any fruits, it provided shelter to many birds. Finding the mango tree useless, farmer decided to fell it. The moment, he was about to cut the tree with his axe, the birds living on the tree begged him, "Spare this tree, sir! If you fell it, we will become homeless and have to go elsewhere. Moreover, it will deprive you of our merry notes when you are here at work." But the farmer turned a deaf-ear to the plea of ... read more

AN ASS, A COCK AND A LION Once a cock and an ass were sitting under a tree sharing a meal. Suddenly, a lion came there. Seeing the cock and ass there he said, "I don't need to hunt far and wide. Under the tree sits my next meal." Seeing the lion, the cock flew on to a branch of the tree and crowed in fear. Hearing this strange sound, the lion got scared and ran away. The ass, thinking that the lion was frightened of it, started following him without realizing that it was the cock's crow that had scared the lion. When the lion and the ass went out of hearing of the cock, the lion tu ... read more

The Day Walk Made a Friend Once upon a time, there lived a beautiful and extremely amiable girl named, Walk. She was a good girl, but she never liked her name as all the kids around her made fun of her name. She ran away from everybody who teased her name and hence, Walk never really had friends. She would play alone all the time. On a regular day, when Walk returned home from school, she finished her homework as soon as possible and asked her mother, if she could go out and play. Her mother said yes, but warned her to not wander and go far away from home. Walk was happy that day; she ... read more