INDIAN TALES AND DANCES

One morning whilst picking the fruit from his mango tree, Madhu sees one very beautiful mango ... what a shape, fragrance, colour ... a mango so beautiful that he decides to offer it to the king. In return the king gives him a horse. On hearing this a rich stingy merchant gives a horse to the king, hoping to receive ... What?
A diamond, a bag of gold, rubies?
But in return he receives ... the mango.

What wisdom there is in Indian tales!

"Last year Flora Devi bewitched the audience. This year she came back with other stories,
other rabbits hidden in her China blue sari,
other snakes sleeping under the banana leaves, other young blue skinned gods with shimmering eyes.”
Christine Givord ,
Dire M’A Muse Festival, Switzerland