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Product Description A young man wanders into a village to find that pandemonium prevails because a demon has been spied in the fields. When Timma the fowler finds a talking parrot in his net, he does not realise that his strange adventures have just begun. Bhola sets free the king of sparrows and is given a rich reward??? a cow that drops golden dung! When the cow is stolen, Bhola is too innocent to realise that his own daughter is the thief. India has a rich vein of folk-tales, passed down from one generation to the next. These tales feature ordinary people in ridiculous situations??? farmers, simpletons, greedy people, nagging spouses??? where compassion, wisdom and wit always triumph. About the Author Anant Pai or Uncle Pai, as he is popularly known as, was born on 17th September, 1929, in Karkala, Karnataka. He is the founder of the popular comic series Amar Chitra Katha and Tinkle. He propagated the tales of Indian mythology and folk among the children through comic books. Some of his other works include Ramu and Shamu, Little Raji, Funland and Rekha. He has been awarded with several prestigious awards in his lifetime. He died on 24th February, 2011.