Moral Of The Story
What is the moral of the story? TaleTown multimedia English short stories with moral & retold stories with morals. Meaningful stories & scholastic tales with morals. (For Moral Stories specifically - See Moral Stories)
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A Land Too Far
Insightful Story: A Land Too Far
Lyrics in various versions of ‘Chhalla’ translated in context of the lover’s ring, boatman’s dead son & Punjab’s current issues
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Ali Baba And 40 Thieves - 02
Retold Arabian Nights Tale: Ali Baba And 40 Thieves - 02
Alibaba stole from thieves. Is stealing from thieves wrong?
Beliefs are dangerous, yet useful. Why?
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Are You A Leaf Or Root?
Insightful Story: Are You A Leaf Or Root?
Tyler Perry’s Tree analogy.
His tree test classifies people into three types: Leaf People, Branch People & Root People
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Be Informed To Spot Opportunities
Be informed to spot opportunities in business & life.
Learning business management becomes easy, when Sunny shows the benefits of being informed using a nun joke...
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Bedsheet For The Soul
Insightful Story: Bedsheet For The Soul
Rosh explains the lyrics of Kabir’s iconic poem 'Jhini Chadaria', in which he calls the human body a finely woven tapestry
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Caught You Red-Handed
"Time passed slowly and the expectation that he was finally going to eat made his stomach growl with eager anguish."
"Geshe Ben was so hungry that he found it difficult to wait. His eyes kept returning to the jar of food within his reach."
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Control Your Tongue
Build character and learn to control your tongue, and your words, like Rishi Durvasa’s, will have the power to move mountains and create history.
Insightful kids story from Hindu mythology showing that words have power. Words can heal, and words can hurt.
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Cracked Pot
Insightful story: Cracked Pot
Nobody is perfect. We're all cracked pots, but can still be useful.
Everything serves a purpose. A fulfilled life is a perfect life.
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Dishonesty – The Better Policy
Lying works, and is good for us. When we do it well, we get what we want. If we don't get what we want, we know that we need to improve on our lying skills. More lying practice is needed. That's why we lie all the time.
Tests conducted in 2002 by Feldman, showed that students told three lies on average per ten minutes of conversation.
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Don’t Upset Your Insurer
“They can act as judge, jury and executioner. Their heavy handed actions can ruin the lives of the very people that pay their premiums.”
“Ruined because of a slip. Ruined because an allegation was made. Or ruined because someone dared demand that their contract be respected.”
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Drink In The Mosque
Insightful story: Drink In The Mosque
Is any place holier than other?
Funny tale with Urdu Shayari Of Ghalib, Mir, Iqbal, Faraz & Wasi on where to drink alcohol
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Executive Decisions
Executive decisions screw the minions regardless of who is at fault.
A dictator’s minister avoids being mauled by dogs, but Rosh is dubious of the story message...
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Eye Of The Beholder
Nothing changes in the world around you, yet your world changes completely.
The eye sees. The eye of the beholder is the key.
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Finding My Way
“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.”
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Found The Bottle-Lovers
Funny story: Found The Bottle-Lovers
With lyrics translation of Hindi song: Nasha Sharab Me Hota To.
If alcohol could intoxicate, bottles would have danced
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Get A Worry Doll
Stress Management Story: Get A Worry Doll
Guatemalan indigenous ancients knew how to delegate worrying to others...
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Get In The Line
Funny Story: Get In The Line
What life needs is not perfection, but love.
Not finding the perfect person, but learning to see an imperfect person perfectly!
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Glimpses Of Greatness
Glimpses of greatness can be seen all around us, not just in ancient avatars and famous leaders.
Necessity and opportunity creates heroes out of ordinary beings.
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How To Handle Durvasas?
How to handle Durvasas? How to deal with people you don’t like?
Why did Rishi Durvaasa curse Indra? Insightful story on sage Durvasa of the Hindu mythology
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Imprisoned Son
An imprisoned son sorts out his father’s problem while still in jail.
We are divided by the distance between our hearts, not by the distance between our bodies.
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