Ramu’s Patient Harvest

There once lived a poor farmer named Ramu who owned a tiny piece of land at the edge of his

village. The soil was dry, his tools were old, and every harvest brought just enough

food to survive. While other farmers had large fields and strong oxen, Ramu had only his

hands and his hope. Each morning before sunrise, Ramu walked to his field.

He greeted the soil as if it were a friend and worked patiently, even when the sun

burned his back and the wind carried dust into his eyes. Some villagers laughed at him and said,

“Why do you work so hard for so little?” But Ramu simply smiled and kept working.

One year, a terrible drought came. Crops failed across the village,