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The Biggest Fool and the Cleverest Wit | Tenali Raman

The Biggest Fool and the Cleverest Wit | Tenali Raman The Vijaynagar Empire celebrates Holi, the festival of colors, with a lot of pomp and circumstance every year. King Krishna Dev Raya and the royal family heartily participated in all the events. The king used to present two awards at the end of the day’s events: the biggest fool and the cleverest wit. On that crucial day, this added to the excitement for the courtiers. Throughout the year, the courtiers would collect all the stories of folly and choose the best to present to the king on that day. However, Tenali Raman has consistently won both prizes over the years. The courtiers were envious of this. They were afraid that things would be the same this year. So, the most astute of them plotted to keep Tenali Raman from appearing in court that day. With this in mind, they arrived

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