Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
One evening, Nasruddin Hodja's wife saw her husband walking up and down the verandah in great agitation.
"What's the matter?" she asked him.
"I borrowed a hundred dinars from our neighbour last month and I promised to return the money on the last day of this month," explained Hodja. "Tomorrow is the last day and I don't have the money. I don't know what to do."
"What is there to do!" said his wife. "Go and tell him you can't pay!"
Hodja took his wife's advice. When he returned from his neighbour's house he looked relaxed and happy.
"How did he take it?" asked his wife.
"Ah, well," said Hodja. "Now he is walking up and down his verandah.
Dimdima is the Sanskrit word for ‘drumbeat’. In olden days, victory in battle was heralded by the beat of drums or any important news to be conveyed to the people used to be accompanied with drumbeats.
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Dimdima.com, the Children's Website of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan launched in 2000 and came out with a Printed version of Dimdima Magazine in 2004. At present the Printed Version have more than 35,000 subscribers from India and Abroad.