The Golden Wheat Strand

Once Birbal was late to the court of Emperor Akbar. When he was asked for the reason, Birbal explained how he was stuck with his crying kids which caused him the delay in getting to the court. Akbar thought Birbal was lying and thus he was not impressed with the answer and insisted that convincing a child can’t be that difficult.

To convince Akbar, Birbal decided to pretend like a kid and showed Akbar the challenges one faces when trying to convince a crying kid. As a child, he first started jumping around and threw a lot of tantrums and sat in Akbar’s lap. Akbar kept asking him to behave nicely. Then Birbal asked for a sugarcane and insisted Akbar to cut it into pieces and then changed his mind again and asked for full cane from the cut pieces. Finally Akbar was fed up and lost his cool. Akbar had to finally agree that convincing a kid is not easy.