Rārian

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.                                                                    ---- HORACE WALPOLE                      O ne day a professor came to his class with a glass of water. Students thought he might again give the same old lesson but before anyone could speak, professor said, “ you must be thinking that I would ask you about the quantity of water in it but no! This time I have another question ” .                      Students who were expecting the same what professor had...

                O nce upon a time, there lived a priest in a small village. He was simple minded and innocent and mind his own business of following religious rituals.       At one point, he was awarded with a goat by a wealthy man due to his noble deeds. The priest was excited of having this reward and happily slung the goat on his shoulders and began the journey towards home.            Three lazy thugs saw the priest with a goat and thought the goat to be enough for a meal.       But the problem was, how could they cheat the priest so that they could take the goat away. After much thought, the eldest thug made a plan of fooling the priest. He told his plan to the other two and after their agreement, all three went to separate directions and hid themselves at different spots on the way back home of the priest.           As soo...

              I n 1888, there was a famous scientist and researcher who made his fortunes through discoveries.          One morning while reading a daily newspaper, he got astonished by having his name in the obituary section. Newspaper by mistake declared him dead while his brother was actually died two days ago.               But to his utter surprise, he was declared as   ‘ THE MERCHANT OF DEATH ’ and was criticized on the discovery of dynamite as he founded a new way of killing more humanity than in history.        After reading the whole article, he was cleared of two things. Firstly, this is what world might remember after his death and secondly, he didn’t want this to happen.        Later in life, he tried best to work for peace and left most of his wealth in a trust, that would be used to establish the awards after h...

                                  O nce a gentleman who had worked all his life to bring good and happiness was granted one wish from God. So, he wished,       “ before I die, I want to visit both heaven and hell! ”.                 God accepted the request and he was whisked off to the great dinning room with tables piled up and above them delicious foods and drinks. But along the tables, there were miserable looking people standing exhausted and starved. Man thought, “ why are they not eating it?”         The angle accompanying him said, “ look at their hands!” Man saw that there were big chopsticks attached directly above their elbow and hence they couldn’t bend it. So, every time, they missed while trying to eat and remained hungry and frustrated.  ...

               Once upon a time in a cold sunny day, father and his little son were sitting in a garden. Father in those days was too busy providing their family with money that he couldn’t talk to his son for weeks because of long hour shifts.     So, father while cleaning his glasses asked the boy how everything was going in his life.      “ Everything’s so boring ”, boy gave a dry answer and then proceeded to list a cascade of bad things that had happened to him at school and outside. “ It’s just one problem after the other ”, boy blurted out. Life is so unfair was his bitter conclusion.              Father who worked as a chef in a big Italian restaurant invited the boy to meet him at the restaurant which was not far from his school. “ Come to me after school tomorrow before going home. I have something to show you. But, lets enjoy the beautiful afternoon for today ”, fathe...

             Once a teacher came to his class and ordered everyone to prepare for a surprise test.  Every student took their pens out and they were given the text facing down, as usual. Once he handed them all out, teacher asked them to turn over the papers.                   With utter surprise, students found nothing on the paper except a small dot at the center. First, they thought there was a mistake but amazingly, everyone had the same test with dark black dot.               After observing student’s agitation, teacher explained that they had to write whatever they found on the page. “ But there is nothing in it ”, asked a student. “ What you see is totally up to you ”, teacher gave a confusing answer and the students started on the inexplicable task.     After about an hour, teacher ordered to stop writing and collected the tests. Afte...

              O nce there was a small country, prosperous but surrounded by mighty empires who always fought with each other. But never had those huge nations declared war in this country. People were happy and always gave credit to their king and his sharp diplomatic approach.                                  But king on the other hand knew that without his trusted advisor, he couldn’t have handled the nation properly. King always had his advisor near him and seek wisdom from him but his one thing always saddened and upset the king when he would say, “ Whatever life brings to you is because God wants something better from you”.                            And so, one day king asked from his one of the serving girls to cut his nails and massage his hands. While girl was doing as she was aske...

                            Once upon a time while Buddha was sitting with his disciples, an old pupil of his came near to him and  respectfully  asked, “Ha Buddha, here in our town, there came a number of preachers, who are not only creating tensions among people but are also indulge in useless fighting. Some say world is Eternal and never ending. Some say that it's temporary and will end. Some say soul dies with body, other say it lives forever and so forth. So, who should I believe in?”                          Buddha after being silent for a minute replied, “once upon a time, there was a king who ordered his servant to gather in one place four men who were born blind. Servant did what he was asked for. When four bling men reached, a huge elephant was brought in front of them. Now, king ordered to show one part of Elephant to one person and ...