My dear readers, I am glad to inform you that my blog has completed four years and a hundred stories. My heartfelt thanks to all of you. Now, here is a folktale for you from Karnataka. In olden days in a village in Karnataka there lived a lad by name Bhimanna. As his name suggested, he had taken after the legendary Pandava prince Bhima in eating food. He loved tasty food and would be ready to do anything to eat tasty food. One day there was an invitation from his aunt in the neighbouring village asking him to join them in the feast to be held in their house on account of his uncle's birthday. Bhimanna was overjoyed and begged his mother to let him go. The neighbouring village was three to four miles away and Bhimanna's father had to go to some other place in his bullock cart on that particular day. Bhimanna was not willing to let go of the free offer though. "I will walk and go mother" said he. "Aunt will feel bad if none of us go and so I will go on behalf our family. Please mother,
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