TERI MERI KAHANI
\ \ J ust yesterday, 11-year-old Yash was reading out this passage from one of our old publications – ‘Late Bloomer’: “Sun shines on every one, Moon smiles at every one’ Stars twinkle for every one, Rainbow appears for every one, Rain drops fall on every one one… Then, yes, then, why should Luck smile at only some?” “Yes, why?” I asked Yash, “Why does Luck favour only some?” What can a 11-year-old say about Lady Luck and her strange ways of smiling? A few days earlier, I had told Yash this popular story… GOOD LUCK OR BAD LUCK, WHO KNOWS? T here lived, in a Chinese village, a wise old-man. He had a great horse and everyone in the village thought that the old man was the most fortunate one. Then, one day, the horse fled into the nearby mountains. The news spread through the village and the villagers came rushing to the old-man’s house to sympathize with him on his ‘bad luck’. But, ...