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    A poor poet asks his wealthy friend for five rupees as they had no rice at home, but the wealthy man refuses, saying he has no money to spare and does not want to keep giving. When the poet questions when he had given before, the rich man replies that he plans to donate money to erect a statue of the poet after his death, so does not need to give now as well. That night, the poet dreams of his hungry family and a statue being made in his honor with donations from the wealthy man.

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    A poor poet asks his wealthy friend for five rupees as they had no rice at home, but the wealthy man refuses, saying he has no money to spare and does not want to keep giving. When the poet questions when he had given before, the rich man replies that he plans to donate money to erect a statue of the poet after his death, so does not need to give now as well. That night, the poet dreams of his hungry family and a statue being made in his honor with donations from the wealthy man.

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    Tripuraneni Gopichand: Original in Telugu by

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    GRK Murty
    A poor poet asks his wealthy friend for five rupees as they had no rice at home, but the wealthy man refuses, saying he has no money to spare and does not want to keep giving. When the poet questions when he had given before, the rich man replies that he plans to donate money to erect a statue of the poet after his death, so does not need to give now as well. That night, the poet dreams of his hungry family and a statue being made in his honor with donations from the wealthy man.

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    Sympathy

    Original in Telugu by:


    Tripuraneni Gopichand

    Translator:
    GRK Murty
    A poet went to his wealthy friend and hesitantly asked
    him in faltering voice, “No rice at home. It has caused an
    upheaval. Lend me five rupees.”

    “I don’t have even a pie. From where would it come?


    Would it grow in my backyard? Even otherwise, I cannot
    give so many times,” said the wealthy man.
    “When did you give me?”

    “Am I not to give money for making your statue after you
    die? To give it now and also later when you die—as
    though I have no other work?” said the rich man.
    That night many images appeared in the poet’s dream. As
    his wife and children were cribbing for food on the one
    side, on the other side he saw his statue in the making.

    People were praising the kind-heartedness and the


    literary connoisseurship of the wealthy man who donated
    money for the making of the statue.

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