A young man wanders into a village to find that pandemonium prevails because a demon has been spied in the fields. When Timma the fowler finds a talking parrot in his net, he does not realise that his strange adventures have just begun. Bhola sets free the king of sparrows and is given a rich reward – a cow that drops golden dung! When the cow is stolen, Bhola is too innocent to realise that his own daughter is the thief. India has a rich vein of folk-tales, passed down from one generation to the next. These tales feature ordinary people in ridiculous situations – farmers, simpletons, greedy people, nagging spouses – where compassion, wisdom and wit always triumph.
