MINISTER'S RAGE

A boy was standing in front of a Minister’s car. He did not notice the car since he was looking the other way. It was a narrow road in a rural area in North India. The driver sounded the horn several times but the boy did not get out of the way. The Minister got down from the car and scolded the boy. The boy did not respond and the Minister assaulted the boy. Later when the press started investigating they found that the boy was deaf.

(True Story)

POISON

A woman was sick and went to see a doctor. The doctor gave her some medicine. When she drank the medicine the next morning she collapsed and was paralyzed. Some of her relatives suspected that there was something wrong with the medicine. They took the medicine to the doctor and told him what happened. The doctor said he had been prescribing this medicine for many years and that there was nothing wrong with it. He said many people have been cured with this medicine. To prove that there was nothing wrong with the medicine he drank some of it. Soon afterwards he collapsed and was paralyzed. Police were informed and they sent the medicine for analysis. It was found to contain some poison. Investigations also revealed that the woman did not have a good relation with her husband. Police interrogated her husband and found that he had mixed some poison in her medicine to kill her. By the time the husband was arrested both the woman and doctor had died.

(True Story)

STREETLIGHT

There was a boy who lived in a village in South India. His parents were poor. They could not afford to send him to a good school. He studied at a government school which provided education for poor children. Such schools usually have very little facilities.

There was no electricity in his house. At night his parents would light lamps to avoid being in the dark. The boy was preparing for the final examination. He found it difficult to study at night with the light provided by the lamps. So every night he would go out with his books and sit under a nearby streetlight to study.

After the exams, when the results were declared he was the top student in the state. People were surprised that a boy who studied under a streetlight had done so well. Many people came forward to help him. They promised to pay for his further studies. 

True Story

ONE DAY HERO, NEXT DAY ZERO

A man was sitting at a restaurant with his girlfriend. She was a foreigner. At the next table there were four young men. One of them made a remark that the man did not like. He got into an argument with them. Soon they started fighting. He was alone and there were four of them but they could not fight with him. They were beaten so badly that all four of them ran away. Those four young men did not know that the man had a black belt in karate.

Next day, the man was sitting at the same restaurant with his girlfriend. Those four young men came back with their friends. There were sixteen of them. All of them were armed with swords and knives. They stabbed him. They took him out to the road and cut him to pieces. They took the girl with them and all of them had their way with her.

(This happened in Pondicherry many years ago.)

MONKEY AT THE BAR

A monkey entered a bar and asked the bartender ‘Do you have any bananas?’ The bartender said ‘No, we don’t have any bananas’. The monkey asked the bartender again ‘Do you have any bananas?’ The bartender said ‘No, we don’t have any bananas’. The monkey again asked the bartender ‘Do you have any bananas?’ The bartender got angry and said ‘No, we don’t have any bananas. If you ask me for bananas again, I will nail your tongue to that wall’. The monkey looked at the bartender and asked ‘Do you have any nails?’ The bartender said ‘No, we don’t have any nails’. Then the monkey asked the bartender ‘Do you have any bananas?’

(I saw this on TV. I think it was on Comedy Central)

THE KING AND THE ASTROLOGER

Once there lived a famous astrologer who had the reputation of being able to predict the time of a person’s death. The king heard about him and asked him to predict the time and day of the king’s own death.

The astrologer did his calculations and announced the exact date and time. The king asked him if he was absolutely sure. The astrologer said he was.

Next, the king asked him to predict the day the astrologer will die. The astrologer did his calculations again and gave a date, many years away.

The king laughed and said, “I will prove you are wrong.” He then called the executioner and ordered the astrologer to be beheaded.

THE WHEELBARROW THIEF

One evening a factory owner saw one of the workmen leaving by the side gate pushing a wheelbarrow full of dirt. He didn't think much of this, but the next evening he saw the same worker coming out with a wheelbarrow full of dirt again.
There was something incredibly suspicious about this. And it didn't take him long to begin to suspect that the worker was waiting for the rest of the crew to leave so that he could steal from the work site, probably hiding his ill-gotten gains in the dirt.
The next evening, he waited for the worker. When the worker came out with the wheelbarrow, he confronted him and searched through the dirt. He found nothing and sent the worker on his way.
A few days later, he again confronted him and found nothing. This continued for more than a month. Each day the worker left a little later, probably to try and avoid his snooping employer, who waited outside to search him. But the employer never found anything, either in the dirt in the wheelbarrow or in the worker's pockets.
Finally he confronted the worker one evening and said "Look, I have been searching this wheelbarrow for seven weeks. I'm sure you're stealing something but for the life of me I can't figure out what it is. It's got me so worked up that I can't think straight and my work is suffering. I lie in bed every night trying to figure it out and I just can't. I admit it, you've got me beaten, but I have to know or I'll never get a decent night's sleep. So I promise you right now, if you'll just tell me what you've been stealing, you will not be punished in anyway.”
"Sir, I have been stealing wheelbarrows" the worker said with a smile.

SHOES

As Gandhi boarded a train, one of his shoes slipped off and landed on the track. He was unable to retrieve it as the train was moving. To the amazement of his companions, Gandhi calmly took off his other shoe and threw it back along the track to land close to the first. Asked by a fellow passenger why he did so, Gandhi smiled and replied, "The man who finds the shoes lying on the track will now have a pair he can use."