in the kingdom of fools summary
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'In the kingdom of fools' is an interesting story of a kingdom run by a foolish king. One day, a saint and his disciple reached the kingdom. The saint was astonished to see that the people were sleeping during the day and worked during the night.
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Summary :- The story, "In the Kingdom of Fools" is a folktale written by A. K. Ramanujan in which a Kingdom full of fools has been described. There was a Kingdom, the king of which thought himself very clever but was actually an idiot. He made a Peculiar rule that everyone in the entire Kingdom will spend the lives of the day at night and the lives of the night in the day and if anyone doesn't follow the rule, he or she would be sentenced to death. One day a guru with his disciple visited the kingdom and experienced the foolishness of the people there. They also observed that in one Rupee, anything could be bought there. By knowing this the disciple got impressed and decided to stay there but the Guru left. One day a thief entered a merchant's house to rob there. He made a hole in the wall and while getting out of the house, the roof of the house collapsed on his head and he died. His brother complained the king that while pursuing the ancient trade, the wall fell on his brother and killed him. He asked for the justice and requested to punish the merchant as he had built very weak wall. The Merchant was brought to the king and when was told about the punishment, he accused the the bricklayer who had actually made the wall. Then the bricklayer was brought to the king. He explained that while building the Wall one dancing girl was going up and down in the street with her anklets jingling. The lady distracted the mind of him and he couldn't concentrate in building a strong wall. When the dancing girl was brought to the king she gave her explanation that she had given some gold to the goldsmith to make some jewellery but he was not doing the work on time and I had to go to him several times. Goldsmith explained that one reach merchant had ordered him to make his jewellery and was pressurising him for his work. It was confirmed that the rich merchant was none other than the father of the merchant who had been brought to the king at first. The king decided that the same merchant will be executed. But when the stake was prepared the merchant did not fit it as he was so thin. So the king ordered to find a man to be fit for it. After a long search, the men of the king found the disciple. He was selected and was brought to the king for execution as he was so fat. After the prayer of the disciple, the Guru appeared there and made a plan with him. They began to quarrel to be executed first and when the king asked the Guru why they were quarreling, he explained that whoever will be executed first in this Stake will Reborn as the new king of this Kingdom and as the Minister because of the stake being the god of Justice. The king after Consulting with his minister postponed the execution and ordered the executioners to execute the persons accordingly who would come at night. The king with his minister released the Guru and the disciple and went to the executioner at night and was executed as they didn't want any other to be the king and the Minister after them. When the public identified them, they got panicked and couldn't understand how it happened. But according to their systematic rule and for the future of their kingdom, they convinced the Guru and his disciple to become the king and the Minister accordingly. They both accepted this with the condition that all the old rules will be changed.