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1. Truthfulness

Once, a rich merchant’s house was robbed. The merchant suspected that the thief was
one of his servants. So, he went to Birbal and mentioned the incident. Birbal went to his
house and assembled all his servants and asked, Who stole the merchant’s things.”
Everyone denied.

Birbal thought for a moment, then gave a stick of equal length to all the servants of the
merchant and told them that the stick of the real thief will be longer by two inches
tomorrow. All the servants should be present here again tomorrow with their sticks.

All the servants went to their homes and gathered again at the same place the next day.
Birbal asked them to show him their sticks. One of the servants had his stick shorter by
two inches. Birbal said, “This is your thief, merchant”.

Later the merchant asked Birbal, “How did you catch him?”. Birbal said, “The thief had
already cut his stick short by two inches in the night fearing that his stick will be longer by
two inches by morning.”

Moral : Truth will always prevail.

Read how to develop a story from the given outlines.
In a colony, there were two blocks of Hindus and Muslims ________ got disputes
________ Ali and Ram ________ Ram invited for ‘Roja-iftar’ ________ Ali for Diwali
________ A little dispute turned ________ they hugged each-other and apologised.

2. Respect All Religions

Once upon a time, there was a colony. In that colony, most of the residents belonged to
slum-cluster. There were two blocks in the colony. In the first block, there lived the

Hindus mostly while second block was occupied by the Muslims. Most of the time, both

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