THE          POLITICIANS
           In a procession elephants are bedecked,colourful,caprisoned.Behind them run a few sweepers with a broom and a bucket each to scoop up the dung the tuskers keep dropping.
       Our political rulers are like those elephants-decked out and caprisoned in the glitter of office.They trundle about,depositing mounds of mess in their wake.
              ***************************
    Politicians prosper on the short memory,and even the shorter stamina of the people.
               ***************************
        Any talk of value and morality to politicians is like offering garlic to Dracula.
               ***********************

EVIL NEVER PAYS

ONCE THERE WAS A PRINCE NAMED Hiranyagupta. He loved hunting to the hilt.One day on a hunt in a forest his horse went wild.madly it galloped deeper and deeper inside the dense forest.Dusk came.The horse calmed down.But the prince was lost in the pitch dark impenetrable forest.He decided to spend the night up on a tree.Some time later a big bear arrived panting at the spot chased by a hungry lion.he too scrambled up the same tree.Hiranyagupta was scared to death.But the bear said,"Have no fear.I won't harm you.We are friends at this hour of emergency." Thus assured, the tired prince fell asleep.All the while the lion was crouching beneath tree waiting for his prey.He proposed to the bear,"Why don't you throw the man down?I am so hungry He would provide a fine meal for me And I promise to leave you alone.Exclaimed the bear,"How can I.He is my friend and I am duty bound to protect him."
     Hours ticked by.It was Hiranyagupta's turn to keep watch while the bear slept.But the lion had not given up.now he tempted him,"Oh prince!I would spare your life if you throw the bear down to me" Hiranyagupta kicked the bear off his perch, but the bear managed to grasp a branch and pull himself to safety.Great was his wrath,"Traitor prince, I curse you would go mad" Next day hiranyagupta was back in the city,but by then he was a raving lunatic.
Moral of the story.---Purge your mind of all the vices.Evil has never paid.Evil will never pay.
************************                               
                       DEVENDRA  SRIVASTAVA