Blog Archive
February 2005
This is a story of a poor man in Glasgow who needed to feed his family. He hit on the idea of using his meagre savings to buy a crate of oranges to sell outside the football ground.
There are various versions of the story of the blind men and the elephant. The blind men and the elephant is a legend that appears in different cultures – notably China, Africa and India – and the tale dates back thousands of years. Some versions of the story feature three blind men, others five or six, but the message is always the same. Here’s a story of the six blind men and the elephant:
A very poor woman from rural India had a five year old son who was becoming ill regularly. He was getting weaker, and a visiting doctor told her that he had a form of diabetes and must not eat sugar. As all of the children in the area chewed sugar cane every day, it was easy to tell the boy but much harder to make him stick to it.