Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
The Emperor of China had sent some peaches to the king of Tondmandalam with a note stating that the fruit gave long life to anyone who ate them.
As the fruits were being shown to the ruler, Rama, giving in to temptation, picked up one of the luscious peaches and bit into it. The king was enraged.
"You've bitten into a fruit meant for me!" he thundered. "For this you must die!"
As Rama was being taken away by the royal guards he sighed dramatically and exclaimed: "What a deceitful man the Emperor of China is. He says the fruit gives long life. I took just one bite and I'm about do die. O, what a fate awaits the one who eats an entire fruit!"
The king was greatly amused by Rama's wit. He not only pardoned him but also gave him a dozen of the peaches he had risked his life for.
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.
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
K. M Munshi Marg,
Chowpatty, Mumbai - 400 007
email : editor@dimdima.com
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
505, Sane Guruji Marg,
Tardeo, Mumbai - 400 034
email : promo@dimdima.com
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.