Why are there no hair on palm ??

 Don't get deceived by the title !!!

It is not a scientific article like previous ones.

It is a light hearted Akbar - Birbal story !!!

It was a packed day on the Court of Akbar.....

Suddenly a question came to Akbar's mind.

WHY ARE THERE NO HAIR ON HIS PALM  ??

Akbar had put forward his question near the courtiers.

Every one was busy thinking......

Akbar asked Birbal to tell the answer.

Birbal stood up and said,

"  Oh King !!!  You do lot of giving alms to poor and needy.   That's why there are no hair on your palm  !!!  "

Akbar was satisfied with the answer.

Akbar again asked ,   "  Why your palm is also not having hair ??  "

Birbal replied,  "  I receive lots of gifts from your hand.  That's why even my palm is hairless  !!!   "

Akbar again asked,

"  Why every courtier's hand is hairless ??  "

Birbal replied,

"  After watching me receiving gifts from your hand,  they rub their both hands in jealous and frustration.

That's why even their palm is hairless   !!!!     "

How many bangles in her hand ??

 Akbar was always fond of wisdom of  Birbal and how he managed to find out the solution for the problem.

Once Akbar tried to fix Birbal. 

Akbar :  Birbal, does your wife wear bangles ??

Birbal :  Yes , she always wears.

Akbar  : So, tell me how many bangles are there on her hand ?

Birbal is really in a fix. He do know that his wife wears bangles.

But he doesn't know how many  bangles are there in the hand  !!!

Birbal thought for some time.

Then he replied. 

Birbal :  How many hair are there in your beard, exactly quarter of 

                 that number is the bangles in her hand !!!

Akbar realised Birbal has cleverly given the answer.

He did not ask further  !!!! 

Green horse

 Akbar was always fond of wisdom of Birbal.

One day both of them were taking a walk in the garden. 

That time, a crazy idea came to the mind of Akbar by looking at the greenery of garden. 

The idea was to Ride a green horse  !!!

Akbar shared his idea with Birbal.

Akbar ordered Birbal to get a green horse for him to ride. Or else to face punishment.

Birbal agreed and he didn't turn up to the court for 7 days.

Birbal came back to court on 8th day.

As soon as he came, Akbar asked for the green horse. 

Birbal said that He has found the owner with green horse.

He is ready to give the horse, but he has some conditions. 

Akbar asked about the conditions.

Birbal listed out the conditions. 

1. Akbar himself has to come to take the horse.

2.  Besides 7 days of a week, on any day Akbar can come to take the horse  !!!!!

After listening to the conditions, Akbar realised that impossible conditions for the impossible task..

How Birbal helped the painter ?

 There lived a painter. He used to draw pictures of people.

One day a rich man contacted him. 

Rich man said that if he draws his picture , exactly looking like him, then he will give lots of money.

Artist agreed.

Next day artist came to house of rich man. 

He started to draw. But could not complete it that day. 

So he said to the rich man that he will come tomorrow and finish the drawing. 

Rich man agreed. 

Artist came and finished the remaining work the next day. 

But rich man started objecting saying that drawing shows I have beard which I don't have.

This drawing is not realistic. 

I will not pay you anything. 

Actually, when artist started to draw  previous day, rich man had beard.

But now he is clean shaven himself  !!!!

Artist didn't say anything but he asked Birbal to help. 

Birbal that time itself went near the rich man with the artist. 

Rich man was surprised to see Birbal with the artist. 

Artist came near rich man and said now he has prepared his realistic drawing.

Artist presented him A MIRROR   !!!!

By looking at mirror and Birbal, rich man didn't say anything.

He paid the artist what he had promised. 

Who is craving for mangoes ?

 Once Birbal had visited the shop of a fruit seller.

As it was the season of mangoes, fruitseller had arranged the mangoes to sell. 

Birbal tasted one mango and it was tasty. 

He purchased 2 kilos of mangoes and went to the court to gift Akbar. 

Akbar was still in his house and watching Birbal carrying the basket of mangoes, Akbar sat down with his wife in the hall. 

Birbal came inside the house and presented the mangoes to Royal couple.

Both husband and wife started to eat mangoes. 

That time a silly idea came to the mind of Akbar to tease his wife. 

He slowly pushed all of his share of mango skins and mango seeds towards queen's side. 

Akbar later complained to Birbal See the craving of Queen for mangoes !!! Only she ate mangoes till now.

Birbal looked at the sides of Royal couple.

Akbar was right  !!! There was a heap of mango seeds and mango skins near the Queen.

But nothing at the side of Akbar.. 

Birbal replied Queen left mango seeds and skins without eating them.

But my lord, you didn't spare them also  !!!

Akbar didn't say anything but queen thanked Birbal. 

Birbal and the thief

 One full moon night, Birbal and his family members were chatting with each other sitting in the verandah.. 

After some time, everything went silent, a thief entered the house through the window. 

Everyone were asleep. Thief went near the store room. He removed his shirt and spread it over the floor so that he could bundle whatever he gets from the store room. 

He went inside the store room and assembled the things he found. In the hurry, he knocked down a flower pot. 

This sound made Birbal to wake up. Birbal was coming near the store room to have a look.

Hearing someone's footsteps, thief got scared and he left whatever he had assembled there only and tried to flee away from the house.

But Birbal had seen him. Grabbing thief 's shirt which was on ground, Birbal said to thief, this shirt I will keep for myself. When you come next time, bring saree to my wife !!! 

Birbal managed to shorten the road

 Once Akbar and Birbal went to neighbouring kingdom by walk . It was a long route to walk.

Both of them started to walk . It was the summer season. It was a very hot day .

Akbar was not at all used to walk under scorching sun . Soon Akbar was exhausted.

Wiping the sweat on his forehead , Akbar inquired Birbal how much distance left to reach the destination ?

Birbal was afraid to say that still long way to go .

Birbal thought of a plan and said to Akbar that if Akbar answers the questions asked by him , he will shorten the road that they are traveling .

Akbar readily agreed . 

Birbal went on asking questions one by one . 

Akbar like a polite student , tried to answer the questions taking sufficient time .

Suddenly Birbal stopped asking questions saying that his question bank got over..

Akbar wore a victorious smile on his face and said to Birbal that though he has answered all the questions asked by  Birbal , Birbal is unable to shorten the distance .

For that , Birbal replied they have already reached the destination by now .

Akbar looked at surroundings and realised what was Birbal meant by shortening the distance .

How to separate sand and sugar mixture ??

 One day, a scholar from neighbouring state came to Akbar 's court.

He said that  he has heard of wisdom of Birbal and now he wants to check it out.

Akbar agreed.

Scholar has brought a pot with him. Inside the pot, there was the mixture of sand and sugar.

Scholar challenged Birbal to separate them from each other without using water. 

Birbal accepted the challenge.

Birbal took the pot and went to garden. 

There he spilled the mixture on ground. 

Soon, ants came and carried away all the sugar particles to their home.

Now only sand particles are remaining on ground.

Showing that to scholor, Birbal said, 

Look !!! Both sugar and sand are separated.

Here are the sand particles. 

To get the sugar particles, you must empty the house of ants  !!!! 

Noblest and lowest person

 Once Akbar asked Birbal to find a man who is both noblest and lowest at the same time.

Birbal agreed and went in search of such a person.

He returned to the court after so many days 

Along with him, there was another person who wore torn clothes. He had unshaven beard and hair. 

He was looking as though he had not eaten for many days. 

Pointing at him, Birbal said, he is the person who is passing lowest lifestyle.

Akbar asked but how is he noblest ?

Birbal replied,  a person who is standing in front of Akbar has to be a noblest person !!!

Akbar smiled at Birbal's witty answer and rewarded both of them with prize. 

Greedy woman

 One day,  a woman came to Akbar 's court with a man.

Pointing at the man, woman said This man has snatched all my money.

Everyone looked at man. He was shocked and confused. He said he had come to meet the king. He does not know who she is?

Every thing is looking complicated.

Birbal asked the lady how much she has lost ?

She said 6,000 gold coins.

Birbal looked at her. She didn't look like a woman carrying such a heavy amount of money with her.

Birbal gave the money to her and asked the man to follow him. 

Man was pleading not guilty. 

Birbal once again asked the man to snatch the bag of money from the lady. 

Man tried to snatch but the lady caught him by his collar and reached the court again to complain.

That time Birbal asked the lady if this man could not snatch the bag from you now, how we can believe he had snatched the bag earlier ?

Lady accepted her lies and asked for forgiveness.. 

What next ??!!

  Akbar was having sleepless nights. Because of this, he was not able to do his work with concentration.

He consulted the Royal doctor and explained his problem. 

Doctor advised him to listen to stories from someone before going to bed. 

Akbar agreed and ordered his courtiers to tell him the story during the night. Each day different courtiers. 

First courtier came and started telling the story.  Akbar was a good listener and he kept on asking what next ?

Though the story got ended, Akbar went on asking what next ??

Courtiers were tired by telling different stories but Akbar was still asking what next ?

They all asked Birbal to help them.

Birbal assured them and next night he went near Akbar to tell the story .

Akbar was very happy by seeing Birbal as the story teller .

Birbal started telling the story .

Once upon a time , there was a Hunter . Once he laid a web to catch the birds by keeping the grains over the web .

Unaware of this , birds thronged over the grains to eat . Suddenly web surrounded them and birds were trapped .

Birbal paused . Akbar asked what next ?

Birbal continued , that time a mouse was passing by . By seeing the condition of birds , it started to make a small hole in the web so that birds one by one slowly can come out .

First bird slowly managed to come out.

Second bird slowly managed to come out.

Third bird slowly managed to come out.

By now , Akbar said what next ?

Birbal continued ,  fourth bird slowly managed to come out.

Fifth bird slowly managed to come out.

By now , Akbar was restless and asked Birbal when will all the birds manage to come out ?

Birbal calmly said , when you stop asking what next !!!

Akbar realised his folly .

How Birbal silenced the jealous courtiers ??

  Though there are many ministers in the court of Akbar,  Birbal was always the favourite of Akbar.

This made other courtiers to get jealous of Birbal.

All of them assembled together and decided to confront Birbal.

Likewise, they all went near Akbar and asked him to give an opportunity to prove themselves. 

Akbar agreed and instantly removed his waist band cloth and asked the courtiers to cover him with the cloth from top to bottom. 

Akbar laid down on ground. 

Courtiers agreed. They unfolded the cloth and started covering his head. The cloth lasted only till Akbar 's chest.

After this, the courtiers thought of starting from the opposite end. Now they  covered Akbar' s feet and stretched the cloth. 

But it lasted only till Akbar 's waist. In whichever way, courtiers tried, they were not able to cover Akbar from top to bottom with the cloth. 

Finally they gave up and accepted their defeat. 

At that moment, Birbal entered the court. 

Akbar asked the same question to Birbal that is to cover him from top to bottom with  given cloth. 

Birbal agreed. Everyone were curious to see how Birbal is going to do it. 

Birbal came near Akbar and requested him to fold his both the legs. 

As told, Akbar folded his legs. 

Birbal easily covered Akbar from top to bottom with the cloth. 

Jealous courtiers left the court with blackened face. 

Who is having the bad habit ??

  Akbar was really tensed about his son's bad habit.

His younger son was having the habit of chewing his thumb all day.

Akbar himself tried to stop this but it is of no use .

Finally Akbar decided to ask for the help of an elderly man .

Elderly man came to Akbar's palace and met the son who was busy in  chewing his thumb.

Elderly man went near him and explained the consequences of chewing thumb all day .

But boy didn't seem to listen to his words.

After some time , elderly man said to Akbar that he will be back tomorrow and then try to talk with the boy .

Akbar didnt say anything .

As promised , elderly man came next day and this time he clearly explained the bad effects .

Boy also agreed to stop the habit of chewing thumb .

But Akbar was restless . He complained near Birbal that whatever the elderly man said today , he could had said it on the first day itself of meeting the boy .

But Birbal was the friend of elderly man . He said to Akbar that elderly man could not say the words on first day as elderly man himself was having the bad habit of  chewing tobacco all day !!!

Birbal and the donkey with the mystic power

  It was the court of Akbar.

Akbar was worried. Some valuable things from the court has been stolen. 

It has become really hard to track down the thief. 

Finally, Akbar asked Birbal 's help in tracing the thief.

Birbal agreed to help. 

Next day morning, Birbal came to the court with a donkey. 

Birbal said, " this donkey I have, is having mystic power. As all of you know some valuable things are missing from court. I request all the courtiers to come to the room where the mystic donkey is kept.

One by one, each of you must hold its tail. Donkey will come to know who is the thief just by touching its tail.  "

Everyone agreed. 

Every courtier went to room and held the tail of donkey. 

Now everyone is curious to know how the donkey is going to find out who is the thief. 

Birbal asked every courtier to stand in line. 

After that, he started closely observing the hands of every courtier. 

Finally, he caught the thief  !!!!

Everyone were surprised. Thief also admitted to his theft and returned the things which had been stolen. 

Birbal explained, " I had applied scent to tail of donkey. Donkey don't have mystic power. But after listening to my words, thief got alerted. He didn't touch the tail of the donkey thinking that it may reveal his name.

From every courtier's hand, I was getting the smell of fragrance. But not from the hands of thief as he didn't touch the tail. That's how I nabbed him ".

Everyone were speechless. 

Returning the money given in dreams

 There were 2 friends. They were sharing everything with themselves.

Once one of the friends had a dream that his friend had given money to him in his dreams. 

Innocent as he is,  he described his dream to his friend. But his friend was cunning. 

Cunning friend after listening to the dream story of his innocent friend , started demanding to return the money to him. 

Innocent friend was not expecting this. How can he return the money which he has borrowed in his dreams ???

Innocent friend was very disturbed.

He contacted Birbal to help him. Birbal listened to everything.

Birbal called both the friends to his room. In his room, he had kept a big mirror. In front of it, gold coins !!!

Both the friends reached the spot. Friends were unaware of anything.

Birbal showed the reflection of the money in the mirror to cunning friend. 

Birbal said your friend has borrowed the money in his dreams from you. Likewise now he is returning the borrowed money to you. It is in the reflection of mirror. You can collect it.

Cunning friend understood that his game is over. He silently vacated the place. 

Rumour about Birbal

Once Birbal was returning to his house.

That time a stranger from no here came in front of him. 

By this behaviour of stranger, Birbal was taken ta aback.

Stranger hugged Birbal and said He has travelled about 25 Kms just to meet him.

During his travel, people he met were all praising his intelligence and his generosity 

By hearing the last part of the sentence, Birbal understood what next stranger is going to say.

Birbal was sure that stranger is going to demand for the money next.

Birbal asked the stranger is he using the same path to travel back.

Stranger said yes.

Birbal said Do me a favour. People who all talked about my generosity, tell them that it's all false.

Ask  them not to spread the rumours.. !!! 

Birbal went on his way 

Who is the real owner?

 Once King Akbar "s friend wanted to meet him. Friend is also the king of  neighbouring kingdom.

Friend decided to go alone riding on a horse. He knew the way very well. 

Friend was riding on the horse. Suddenly he saw an old man falling down. 

He got down the horse. He really wanted to help the old man.

Friend was unaware that the old man is actually wicked.

Friend helped the old man to climb the horse and together they reached the kingdom of Akbar .

But as soon as they reached the court of Akbar , old man started showing his true identity .

He accused the friend king of stealing his horse and now saying it as his own .

Friend king was shocked by the allegations against him. He wanted to watch how Akbar is going to solve this problem .

Matter came infront of Akbar. Akbar as usual asked Birbal to solve the problem .

Birbal agreed and took both of them near a group of horses standing.

Birbal asked both of them to identify the horse, they are claiming theirs .

First it was the turn of old man . But he failed to identify his own horse amongst all !!!

But friend king was successful in identifying his pet .. Thus Birbal was successful in solving the problem.

Whose son is cute and smart?

 Once Akbar had come to the court with his younger son.

When introducing him to the court, Akbar exclaimed his son is the cutest and smartest of all the children.

Everyone in the court agreed with Akbar 's saying but not Birbal.

Akbar observed the unhappiness in Birbal' s face and angrily questioned Birbal about his opinion.

Birbal politely said that Akbar's son is not the only one in the world who is cute and smart.

This answer enraged Akbar and he insisted that Birbal must show the boy who is more cute and smarter than his son or to be ready to face punishment. 

Birbal agreed. Both of them went out and reached a slum. 

There were many children who were playing in the mud. Most of them were covered entirely with the mud. 

Birbal went near a playing boy and started to beat him without a reason. 

Boy started to cry loudly. All of a sudden, his mother came there and started consoling her son. 

After knowing that Birbal had hit her son without a reason , she started arguing with Birbal. 

According to her, how anyone can hit a cute and smart boy like her son without a reason?

Though her son is unrecognisable and covered entirely with the mud, she still thinks that her son is the cutest and smartest of all. 

By listening to her words,  Akbar realised that for a parent, his or her child is always the cutest and smartest of all the children. 

How did Birbal identified the other guest ?

 Once Birbal was invited by a rich businessman for lunch . When 

Birbal went there , he was surprised to see many people who are 

already present there .

By seeing the question on Birbal's face , rich man said  , except one 

rest all are the employees of his factory . Now it is upto Birbal to 

find out who is the other guest ?

Birbal accepted the challenge and asked the rich man to tell a joke . 

Rich man said the joke. As soon as he finished , everyone bursted in

 laughing .

Slowly Birbal went near the corner of the room and showed a  

person who is the other guest . Rich man was very impressed by 

this and asked Birbal how did he come to know about the other guest ?

Birbal replied , " the joke said by you is not so funny . But also 

everyone laughed because they were your employees . Only this 

man just smiled at the joke . That's how I came to know that he is 

the other guest ."

Birbal helped the poor farmer

 A farmer had bought a well full of water which is near to his farming land by a

 cunning rich man . He bought the well for irrigation purpose .

Next day when the farmer went to water the plants , cunning rich man didn't allow

 him to fetch the water saying that farmer had bought only the well but not the

 water inside it !

Farmer went near Birbal asking for justice . Birbal went near the rich man along

 with farmer .

 Birbal said to rich man ," According to you , you have only sold the well but

 not the water inside of it . So , now you have to take out all the water

 inside the well . If you failed to do it , then you have to pay rent to my

 client for allowing to keep your water inside the well of my client !! "

Now rich man realised his game is over and allowed the farmer to use the water .