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Story time!

   Today I was trying very hard to remember a story which I was frequently told as a child. It had a few words like "कुंजरी का रणभेरी...." stuck there I had no idea how to find it, so I used all my searching skills but finally surrendered myself. The Internet could not help me today and all my efforts were in vain. So at the end of the day, I called up my sister to ask about it.    Well, it is rightly said, some things are just passed. She elaborated me the entire story then. Well, this was a Sanskrit story Aaji used to tell us in a dramatic tone. And as a little girl, I had just mugged up the climax, which now made no sense to me.    So the story goes like, once a rabbit family moved to a new forest ruled by a wicked tiger. They stayed in the burrow for a few days to avoid an encounter with the tiger but then they realized this would not work forever. One day they wi...