Raju Ganapathy

Classics

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Raju Ganapathy

Classics

Modern Panchatantra Tales

Modern Panchatantra Tales

4 mins
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Once a fox met with a dog in the kennel and started a conversation.

Dog: "Oh! my friend, you are so free. Here I am locked up in my kennel."

Fox: "Indeed, free life is not all that rosy. I have to hunt for food and sometimes I go hungry. I will have to save myself from threat to my life all the time. Rain or shine we have to find a place to hide somewhere unlike you safe and sheltered."

Dog: "But you have freedom. I would not mind exchanging anything for freedom."

Fox: "That is what you think, you are mistaken. You need to be safe and secure to enjoy your freedom. That is what you have."

Dog: "Freedom is freedom."

Fox: "First find a life that is safe and secure. Then you can choose your freedom."


Once a rabbit challenged a tortoise for a race. The tortoise agreed but said you will have to race me on water too. Rabbit agreed. The rabbit won the race on the ground but conceded defeat on water. Tortoise wisely said we have different strengths and we must act based upon it.


Once a peacock dancing away; heard the melodious song of the cuckoo and suggested if they marry what will be their progeny like. Cuckoo said it is not in the nature of things and flew away.


Once a smart fox wanted to make friendship with a tiger. Let us go hunting fox suggested but fifty-fifty share of the hunt. Tiger said you can have the entire hundred percent. Fox got happy and both hunted a small deer. Fox ate up the deer entirely. Tiger said now it is my turn and ate up the fox.


Once a fox which went into the city fell into a bucket of blue dye and turned into a blue fox. When it came back to the jungle the animals started treating it with respect. The fox realised it was because of the blue dye. When it rained it took shelter in the cave, unlike the animals. When the full moon came, it didn’t join the other foxes and howl. Then began the mating season. Fox desperately wanted to find his own mate but was scared to reveal his true identity. Then it found a timid mate and took her to the town and dipped her in the blue dye. Then they mated and produced tiny ones which the fox took to the town and dyed them blue. The family lived happily in their blue dye getting due respect from all the animals. So, the fox lived a life out of the blue and observed that life is a matter of trade-offs and you give in some and get out some. 


Once a cunning jackal was hungry and looking for something to eat. It went to town and saw a crow stealing a little snack from an old woman and perched on a tree. The jackal went to the crow and said: “you, handsome bird why don’t you sing a song for me?” The crow said you are mistaking me for a cuckoo which is also black. Find one instead. The jackal insisted that it was not mistaken. Then the crow took the snack under its talon and sang a song. The disappointed jackal told the crow indeed I was mistaken and went off hungry.


Once a farmer and his wife reared a mongoose. They would go to the nearby field and leave their baby under the custody of the mongoose. When they came back for lunch one day, they found the mongoose with traces of blood on its mouth. The farmer was about to take the axe and go in a rage to kill the mongoose. His calm wife held him back. Let us find out what has happened inside. When they went inside, they found the mongoose had killed a snake and that is why the blood on its mouth and their baby was sleeping soundly. Thank god! Said the farmer I didn’t act in haste. “Make haste, waste life,” the wife remarked.


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