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Akbar : Why?

Messenger : Your Majesty, he is cooking food and will take long.

Akbar : (Angrily) What nonsense! Why? We shall go and find out.

(Akbar gets up and walks quickly towards Birbal’s house followed by

some cour ers and guards.)

Scene - 6

(Birbal’s house. Birbal is si ng near a fire on the ground. Far above it, balanced on a
tall tripod, is a cooking pot.)

Akbar : Birbal! How stupid!!! You have kept the pot so far above the fire.

How can this fire cook your food?

Birbal : (With a twinkle in his eyes). If this fire can’t cook food in this cooking
pot, how can the lights of your palace warm Denu in the cold water of
the Yamuna?

(Akbar immediately realizes his wrong decision and calls for the
washerman.)

(Next day, at Akbar’s court. Denu comes with his family to the Darbar.
Akbar hands the tray of coins to Birbal who gives it to Denu. Denu as

well as his family are very happy. People cheer and clap. People
appreciate the jus ce done to Denu.)

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