Fix Your Problems : The Tenali Raman Way

Contents 1 The Sunrise 2 The Prodigy3 Rendezvous with King Raya 4 The Last Riddle 5 Food Facts 6 Point Blank 7 Holy Mess 8 The Arithmetic of Age 9 The Master of Game 10 Piece to peace 11 Code of Brilliance 12 Spectacular Water 13 A Bonafide Verdict 14 A perfect Lesson 15 A Calculated Act 16 The Slippery Travellers 17 Guessing Game 18 Nine of Ten 19 Blinded by Lure 20 A Dauntless Act 21 Grain Gain 22 Joy in the City of Joy 23 Flight of the Imagination 24 An Eye Opener 25 Master Stroke 26 The Grand Plan 27 The Knotty Knot 28 The Desert Taster 29 Measure for Measure 30 Pursuit for Justice 31 The Final Solution 32 The Master?s Move 33 Dog?s Trail 34 Your Honour?s Honour Honoured 35 Wicked Word 36 The Blamesworthy 37 Windfall Deal 38 The Wish List 39 The Striking Questions 40 An Ugly Truth 41 Twinkle in Wrinkle 42 The Son?Shine 43 The Rich versus the Poor 44 Cup of Woes 45 Of the People For the People By the People 46 Search Simplified 47 A Landmark Victory  48 Under Cover 49 Dons to Dust 50 The Phoenix Moment 51 Acting Care-fooly 52 The Bold One 53 Wanted An Urgent Solution 54 Testing Times 55 Winner All the Way56 A Special Encounter 57 Prize Catch 58 Lost and Found 59 Left High and Dry 60 Meeting of Minds 61 Intelligent Strikes 62 Yours is Here 63 Who?s Who 64 There it goes again 65 The Namesake 66 A Tactful Move 67 Bare in Mind 68 Battle of Wits 69 Hand?some Win 70 Scene by Scene 71 Next is What 72 Handle with Care 73 Discovery Lesson 74 Adieu to RamanTenali Raman was a court jester an intelligent advisor and one of the ashtadiggajas elephants serving as pillars and taking care of all the eight sides in the Bhuvana Vijayam Royal Court of the famed Emperor of Vijayanagar Empire City of Joy in Karnataka ? Sri Krishna Deva Raya 1509-1529 the model ruler par excellence to Ashoka Samudra Gupta and Harsha Vardhana Tenali Raman was an embodiment of acute wit and humour and an admirable poet of knowledge shrewdness and ingenuity In a short span the legacy left behind by Tenali Raman attained eternity All these qualities of Tenali Raman have been fully explored and displayed in this collection of vibrant fables and anecdotesThe book is a marvelous treasury of legends of Tenali Raman and Emperor Raya which evokes a long lost never-never land an enchanted world of alert wits and tricky gossips; crafty crooks with biting tongues valiant brigands and an assorted cluster of uncommon common peopleNarrated by the author and superbly illustrated Fix Your Problems?The Tenali Raman Way is an engaging blend of earthly wisdom and sparkling humour which deal with concepts that have certain timelessness Each story is followed by terse moral and incalculable snippets which are usually that little extra that brings the reader a little more closer to his goal on the way to realisation Every story purveys a pithy folk wisdom that triumphs over all trials and tribulations The moralistic traits sagaciously portrayed by these stories intend to develop a series of impacts that can reinforce certain key ideas by the rational mind of the readers in all facets of life and propel them to the top in every endeavour The stories various layers of meaning educates informs advises enthuses inspires and amuses and thus have a teaching effect which makes this book a must read for every aspiring individual who wants to race ahead in the world of opportunities and cusses The book also exposes how richly endowed Bharata Khanda India before invasions had been in the east in the field of wisdom and knowledge down the ages of which the west is ignorant 224 pp.