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“What on earth is going on ?”

“What on earth is going on ?” You exclaimed, trying to narrate a story from a book in your own words.It was an interesting little tale where a tiger intimidates a rabbit into giving up his fair share of fish and the rabbit gets back by tricking the tiger. Made me remind I need to tell you what’s been going on in the world. In your world, these days we are practicing maths, trying to understand subtraction and tens and units and hundreds. We played a little game of a shopkeeper and a customer, haggling over prices and using poker chips for money of various denominations. You enjoy it, taking turns selling and buying stuff and at times returning things. With your age of just 5 and a half, I feel a bit guilty, introducing a little dose of exploitation to your pure self when we negotiate over an item to be returned and its condition. But then one person’s exploitation is another man’s finesse, a sought after soft skill in any walk of life. Daadi is doing fine for now and has responded...