Songs of my Heart !

The Treasure Once the king of a village was riding on his horse early in the morning on the streets of his kingdom to understand the smooth functioning of his kingdom. Suddenly he found a beggar on the corner of one street , looking up and cursing the God ! The king felt little upset so he went close to the beggar and asked “ hey ! why are you cursing the God “? What happened ? On hearing the King’s words he turned towards him and replied “ Why should I not curse the God who has not given me a penny to have a piece of bread! No one is giving me alms as well. You are lucky as you were born as a Prince and became the King ,so you will never understand my difficulty” Leave me alone and go away ! The King instead of getting angry at the beggar said O.K since you want some money I will give you one hundred gold coins can you cut your right hand and give me? The Beggar said “uh! Who is going to give the precious hand for just 100 gold coins.? How will I lose my hand? No! Then the ...

                                                    Kalidasa-the Great Scholar A very interesting incident from the life of great Scholar Kalidasa: Once Kalidas has decided to go to a far off place on an errand as those days the means of transport was not so popular most of the people used to walk from one place to another. Hence kalaidasa was also walking to reach his destination. On his way to his destination he came across a small village and as it was mid -day and as he was feeling thirsty stopped near a hut where he found a 14 year old girl carrying a pot of water. Kalidasa called that girl and asked for some water.Then the girl replied that she can’t give as she doesn’t know who he is ? She asked him who are you please tell me so that I can give you water.Kalidasa was so upset that she asked for his identity hence replied arrogantly.. Don’t you ...

Long live Innocence                                 Once  our school has planned for a day long picnic for the Boarders. It was a tradition in our school to take the in-mates for an outing so that they feel homely and home sickness should not supersede the studies and extra curricular activities. All 300 children got into 10 buses and I was observing the systematic approach of my Hostel in-charge in making children carry their food and water and keep in the storage place of the Bus and quietly get into the bus. The whole process of seating the children in all 10 buses and attendance took almost half-an hour .All the buses started with a roar of laughter and huraah! Sounds. All children felt as if they were out of their cocoon and got the freedom at last! I started following them in my vehicle ,owing to my back ache. Thoug...

Lesson Learnt Timmy an eleven year old loved reading stories .He always lived in a fantasy world. He used to dream that the fairies come and help him in examinations and never used to study and every time he used to fail in the examination. Every time he used to escape with some excuse or the other . One day the English teacher was teaching and asked everyone to take a surprise test .As mentioned earlier Timmy never prepared himself for the test. Initially he did not know what to do, suddenly an idea struck him .He started crying bitterly holding his stomach and began wriggling with pain. The worried  teacher rushed to the Principals’ office to report the same and the school authorities immediately phoned Timmy’s father, the anxious father rushed to the school .Timmy never expected his father would be summoned for this petty issue,he thought he would be exempted from the test. But  ,Alas ! now he can’t do anything other than following his father to the hospital for an in...

Realization I was 9 year old when we moved to Visakhapatnam from Rourkela. Rourkela which is a part of Orissa is a small town and we used to reside at Steel Plant township which was more secured.I along with my elder brother two sisters were all excited to travel by a train to reach Visakhapatnam. It was my father’s birth place and he too was happy to come back to his home town. Home again Home again !! Excitement in his face  was quite evident ! All four of us were busy counting the stations :the task given by my father to keep us engaged through out the journey. I was sincerely noting down the names of the stations while my brother who was busy playing with his ball ,suddenly peeping into my book to copy from my book so that he will be in the race with us. My elder sister being 6 years older to me already knows most of the stations,hence was relaxing reading the Famous Five .My second sister has already bribed me with a 5 Star chocolate and thus engrossed in chit chatting w...

A True Teacher : Once there lived a poor fisher man in a village on the banks of the river Godavari .He was unable meet both ends though he used to work hard from morning till night. He was not very efficient in going to the middle of the river to get the big fish which can fetch him more money. All the other fisher men who were slightly younger and energetic used to make better fortune than him. Thus ,he remained poor. He had a son named Ramu who is very smart and enthusiastic but turned too naughty as he used to play outside his house through out the day. Many of his neighbour’s kids used to go to village school which was few yards away from their house. But Ramu was never to school as his father was unable to pay the meagre fee that was charged by the school . Everyday the village school master namely, Rajarao used to walk through this fisher man’s house to reach his school. Everyday he used to watch Ramu playing outside his house,playing pranks on everyone and used to jibe ...

A Theoretical  Teacher Once there lived a renowned teacher who used to preach all the people around about various topics. He used to travel from one place to other and used to share his knowledge with the people who meet him. One fine morning he had decided to renounce this materialistic world as well his preaching and settle in a peaceful place and meditate. Having decided this, he started walking :After several hours of tiring walk, he reached a dense forest & he was over whelmed to see the serenity and  he decided to stay in the forest. After searching for a suitable place to sit and meditate ,he found  a place  surrounded by large number of trees with heavy trunks. He was happy that he found a peaceful place to meditate, but suddenly all his happiness disappeared as he heard thousands of parrots chirping perching on the trees. He was initially unhappy that he got back to the sound but certainly the sounds made by the birds are far melodious than the hum...