Saturday, October 31, 2026
Patna's Bihar Museum!
Patna's Bihar Museum has ranked ninth in Worth a Journey's 2026 list of the world's 100 best museums. It is the only Indian museum on the list and the highest-ranked in Asia, ahead of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (10th) and Paris's Louvre (31st).
Partially opened to the public in 2015, the museum fully opened in 2017. Its collections include archaeological artefacts, ancient sculptures, coins, manuscripts and regional folk art, including the Didarganj Yakshi and Kurkihar bronzes.
Friday, October 30, 2026
The Richness of Values
A young newspaper boy, about ten years old, is ringing the gate bell of a house.
(Perhaps the newspaper wasn't published that day.)
The lady of the house comes out and asks, "What is it?"
The boy replies, "Auntie, can I clean your garden?"
The lady says, "No, we don't need it cleaned."
The boy, folding his hands in a pleading voice, says, "Please, Auntie, let me do it. I will clean it very nicely."
Moved by his plea, the lady says, "Alright, fine. How much money will you charge?"
The boy replies, "Not money, Auntie. Just give me some food."
The lady murmurs to herself, "Oh! He seems starving, let me feed him first." She says out loud, "Come on in, do the work well. Hey boy, eat your food first, then you can work."
The boy answers, "No, Auntie, let me finish the work first, then you can give me the food."
"Alright!" the lady says and gets busy with her own chores.
An hour later, the boy calls out, "Auntie, please check if the cleaning is done properly."
The lady is surprised, "Oh wow! You have done a wonderful job. You even arranged the flower pots so neatly. Sit here, I will fetch the food."
As soon as the lady hands him the food, the boy pulls out a plastic bag from his pocket and begins packing it inside.
The lady stops him, "You worked on an empty stomach. Sit here and eat your food now. If you need more, I will give you extra."
The boy says softly, "No, Auntie. My sick mother is at home. We got the medicines from the government hospital, but the doctor said they shouldn't be taken on an empty stomach."
The lady breaks into tears. Stepping in like a second mother, she feeds the innocent child with her own hands.
Afterwards, she prepares fresh rotis for his mother, walks over to his house with him, and hands the food to his mother herself.
Before leaving, she says to the mother:
"Sister, you are incredibly wealthy. The real treasure of values you have given to your son is something we fail to give to our own children. God blesses only the most fortunate ones with a child like yours." 🙏
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