THE LION AND THE LEOPARD
Pic.: Chetna Shetty Y ears ago, when I had decided to do something about my poor English, one of the things I did – and found very effective – was telling a nice story in two tenses… the Present and the Past. Over the years, I have helped hundreds of people, who were earnest about improving their English, with the same method… Yes, write a nice story down in both the tenses… and, then, tell it to someone… Here is a lovely story which tells us how our big egos function and how they are cut to size, invariably always… Someone ‘bigger’ – who doesn’t give a damn about what we think of ourselves - comes to do the job! THE LION AND THE LEOPARD PAST: I t was a hot afternoon. In a jungle, a lion, who was tired and thirsty, wandered in search of water. Finally, when he came near a pond of water, the lion saw a leopard there. The leopard, too, was tired and thirsty and had reached there in search of water. “What are you doing here?” the lion b...