We Canadians

It is early December and the tourist season should be in full swing but not much is happening in this village in Goa.
 
Everyone is heavily in debt. Lucky, a rich Russian tourist arrives at a local hotel in this village.
 
He asks for a room, puts a $20 note on the reception counter, takes a [...]

Lord Buddha was sitting under a banyan tree. One day, a furious Brahmin came to him and started abusing him.

The Brahmin thought that Gautam Buddha would reciprocate in the same manner, but to his utter surprise, there was not the slightest change in the expression on Buddha’s face.
 
This made the Brahmin  more angry. He hurled [...]

Mick, from Dublin , appeared on ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire‘ and towards
the end of the program had already won 500,000 pounds.
You’ve done very well so far,’ said, Chris Tarrant, the show’s
presenter, ‘but for a million pounds you’ve only got one lifeline left - phone
a friend.
Everything is riding on this question…. ..will you go [...]

 
Buddha was in deep thought about  worldly activities and the ways of instilling goodness in human beings. One of his disciples approached him and said humbly, “Oh my teacher ! While you are so much concerned about the world and others, why don’t you look into the welfare and needs of your own disciples also.”
 
Buddha [...]