Love & Romance

Retold Arabian Nights tale: Ali Baba And 40 Thieves - 20

The Captain's pain morphed into anger.

Anger became blind hate. Hate gave him the purpose of his life.

"I don't think I could handle any more stammering animals, pet," Isha smiled down at him, "One's enough in this household."

"And by the way, animals do stammer!"

"See, I can't even see what is so obvious to you. I am like these coffee beans soiling whatever they touch and completely useless thereafter."

"Wish I were more like these other two, still holding their own after all their troubles."

Funny story with retold men jokes, like:

What do men and beer bottles have in common? What do men and sperm have in common?...

What's the difference between men and...

Funny Story: Complementary Relationships

Retold joke on why men earn and why women spend money.

Using comical equations, Satyadev shows that both are donkeys.

He thought about his father’s future work. Creating and publishing stories – inspired by life.

Creating another Upanishad! A contemporary Upanishad! Perhaps an Upanishad retold!

Would he read it? He knew he would, he loved his father’s stories anyway.

In the Hindu mythology story of Devayani and Kach, should Kacha have married Devyani?

Genetic engineering is a great Sanjivani Vidya, but whether in vivo or in vitro, human cloning or resurrection using borrowed genetic materials can alter existing familial relationships

"When people live as intimately together as couples do, there aren't many secrets left."

"Distance creates mystique, familiarity breeds contempt."

"Love loses its glamour when you are under the same sheets, smelling each other's farts."

Thrilling Story: Encounter in the alley

A father returns to his estranged son after six years. But the son has learnt to survive without him.

Can they reunite?

Funny Story: Female Logic

Logic is logic, but female logic is beyond logic! Completely incomprehensible, except to females.

These retold jokes are proof.

“Where else can one go? It is all here. What more is there to seek? I already have Him. What more is there to become? I already am.”

“No, my liberation is not in seeking more, not in getting more, but in giving back what I do have now.”

Spiritual Story: Here I Am, Lord

‘Is it I Lord?’ Rosh thinks, remembering Daniel Schutte’s Christian hymn, ‘Will you lead me?’

Becoming was dead. Being had begun

Funny Story: How Business Is Done?

Isha teaches Rosh the psychology of relationships & how to be smart and tactful in business, but no solutions are perfect.

"Comprendo?" asked Rosh, looking at his son in the back view mirror.

"No Pa," Josh answered, "but were you talking about having sex with Ma?"

"I know what music is. It is the rhythm in everything alive. Whether it flows through a didgeridoo or a flute, sounds from dead hollows in wood can make a moribund heart come alive."

"Knowing comes from the head. But knowing about music can't create music. Music comes from the heart. When it is felt by the heart. Feeling is enough."

Funny Story: Measuring A Man’s Love

How does a female measure up her man's love?

Here’s a simple point system of how she rates what he does (or doesn’t do) for her

‘Vasudhaev kutumbkam,’ he understood it now, though he had heard it a thousand times before. ‘Mundo Uno - One World’.

अयं बन्धुरयं नेति, गणना लघुचेतसाम् | उदार चरितानां तु वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम् ||

'Discrimination, saying ‘this one is a relative; that other is a stranger’, is for the small-minded. For the magnanimous, the entire world is one family.'

Nainital nostalgia overtakes Rosh, as he remembers flirting with a girl while holidaying in Nainital.

His friend Shank had guided the novice lover into romance.

'I am afraid to take this leap of faith. You say that the eagle alone can look into the sun. And the sun rejuvenates its eyes. But I am weak and fearful."

"If I am no eagle, the sun will scorch mine. And smite them down for my arrogance."

Revenge isn't best served cold.

It is best not served at all, Hosh realizes. A lot could have gone wrong...

An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind!