
Make a Difference Story | Tenali Raman
Make a Difference Story | Tenali Raman Tenali Raman’s popularity went beyond Vijaynagar into what is now Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Tenali Raman was an outstanding poet and scholar. He was fluent in several languages, including Tamil and Kannada. The king was once on vacation with his family and some courtiers on a beautiful beach. The sun shone brightly one morning, and it was a lovely day. So, the king decided to go for a walk down the beach. He noticed a man wandering back and forth between the surf’s edge and the beach as he walked. As the king got closer to the beach, he saw that the tide had left hundreds of starfish on the sand. The king was perplexed by the task’s seeming futility. There was a lot of starfish. Many of them were doomed to death. As he got closer, the man kept picking up the