A man was running fast and he was stopped my another man.
“Why are you running so fast?”
Runner: “Didn’t you know? There is saint who has come to our village from afar and several of us are going to meet him.”
“But for that why are you running so fast? Our man persisted.”
“The tickets will get over,” [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Cannot fool all people all the time
Posted in Humour, tagged cheat, humor, saint, thief on August 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Purandaradasar
Posted in Religious, tagged Pandharpur, Purandaradasa on August 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There are times, when you come upon a thing of the past, which you had misplaced or lost, and suddenly out of the blue you find it and you jump with joy. It was with similar joy that I greedily grabbed the book proffered by my dad when he visited me recently. The book in [...]
Tirumullaivayil
Posted in Mythology on August 18, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Once upon a time, Tirumullaivayil was a dense forest. Vanan and Onan were two tribesmen from the Kurumbar clan. They had made Tirumullaivayil their den and were troubling people living in and around the region. No one could defeat them in battle for a long time.
Finally, a king by name Thondaiman bravely faced the Kurumbas [...]
Parikshit
Posted in Mythology, tagged Abhimanyu, Parikishit, snake, Takshaka on August 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After Abhimanyu’s death, his son Parikshit ascended the throne. He was a good king and his subjects loved him. But fate had different plans for him.
One day while he was hunting, he spotted a deer and sent an arrow after it. The arrow missed the deer and it ran for its life. The king followed [...]
The tale of a village goddess
Posted in Folk tale, tagged kadalur, uruppidi amman, Village on August 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Once upon a time there was a king named Rayathondaiman. The country was under the rule of the Nawabs and Rayathondaiman was the king of a small area called Kanchamanadapuram, allotted to him by the Nawabs.
The king was fond of hunting. One day while returning from one such expedition, he met a small boy who [...]
