Panchatantra Tale - Animal Spirit

Panchatantra Tale - Animal Spirit

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A wily old fox once ruled the ancient land. He appointed a ferocious tiger as the finance minister. But unfortunately, the tigress was not sure about math and fumbled in economics calculations. The economy went down and down. The tigress said it was all due to gravity. But then the fox asked how do we make something go up from down. Don’t we need to apply some anti-gravity forces? He asked. He had a bad wolf as the home minister. He told the fox not to worry that I will create situations that nobody will talk about the economy but other things. The wolf introduced new regulations about who can live in the forest and who cannot. Since in those days, forests were in continuous existence and animals moved from one forest to others in search of prey and water. It created a lot of confusion among animals. But for animals prey and water mattered more than anything else and the time came again to discuss once again economics. So, the tigress braced herself up and called for a meeting of all animals. She urged all the animals to unleash their spirits so that the economy can be revived and sent against gravity. Many animals responded to her urgings.

 

One old animal called Bajaj said: Don’t get my goat. You people don’t listen to any feedback, and there was an atmosphere of terror.

Then the AMUL animal got up and said my spirit is COW, and we have no problem in ‘moo’ ing ahead and sat down.

Air India animal, which was old and haggard, said my spirits had become an ostrich and I would like to stay grounded. But other animals like Indigo said we could soar like eagles.


Jio animal, which used to’ jio and jeene do,’ has changed his policy of late and roared like the MGM Lion and said in all the forest I am known as the Lion King in the old villain Ajit style. Airtel and Vodaphone animals which used to rival the lion just ‘meowed’ with their tail in between their legs.

The real estate animals said we are like sparrows building nests to live, and these days it is not easy to find monetary twigs.

The magnificent Tata animal said the time has now come for the Cyrus Crane to roost home.

The Auto sector animals said we could move at a snail’s pace only. It will take a long time to zoom like a car that we used to do earlier.


The fragile animal called the small Indian farmer said we have become like earthworms and digging deeper into the hole with nobody to support us.

The worker animals said we are like the industrious bees. But these days, there is nothing to buzz about.

Many animals called infrastructure said, “we are like crows but nothing to crow about these days in the economy.”

The railway animal said we are like the hound on track of growth. Sometimes we get derailed and that is the only problem.


The honcho animals collectively said “ass you like it, Madam” in the Shakespearian style.

Then the wily old fox concluded the meeting and said nothing to worry, “acche din ayenge.”

All the animals in a chorus said “Jai Shri Ram” and left the meeting wondering what was the meeting all about.

 


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