Priya Sanjay Tandon

A man went to see a psychiatrist and said that every night he was visited by a twelve-feet dragon with three heads. He was a nervous wreck, could not sleep at all and was on the verge of total collapse. He had even thought of suicide. “I think I

The Moghul Emperor Akbar was one day out hunting in the forest. When it was time for evening prayers he dismounted, spread his mat on the earth and knelt to pray in the manner of devout Muslims everywhere. Now it was precisely at this time that a peasant woman, perturbed

President Truman attended the Yalta Conference of the Allies during the Second World War. He found Winston Churchill very difficult, adamant and hard to convince of anything. On the other hand, he found Joseph Stalin of Russia very affable, friendly and easy to convince. Churchill literally fought before putting his

There once lived an Eastern king whose wisdom illuminated the land like a sun, whose cleverness was surpassed by no one and whose wealth far exceeded that of everyone else. One day a Wazir came to him with an unhappy face. “Great sultan, you are the wisest, greatest and mightiest

A caliph lay deathly ill on his silk cushions. The hakims, the physicians of his country, stood around him and agreed that only one thing could bring the caliph healing and salvation: placing under his head the shirt of a happy man. Messengers swarmed out looking in every city, every

There was a giant who was bullying and harassing the children in the village. One day, a shepherd boy came to visit his brothers and asked, “Why don’t you stand up and fight the giant?” The brothers were terrified and they replied, “Don’t you see he is too