Donation

-Na Ki Prasad

To celebrate the festival of the temple, the President, Shivanesan and the Secretary, Vinayagam went round to collect the donations.

Shivanesan kept inside the notebook another notebook in which the donors had written their contributions. And he took the other one! Vinayagam asked for the reason.

‘Vinayagam! When people last year wrote three or four hundred rupees as their donations, Ramalingam wrote fifty thousands to show off his position! Now in this notebook I have written forty thousand and fifty thousand against their names. Seeing these, he is sure to give us a donation of one lakh.’

‘I never thought of this. It’s a good idea!’

Both entered the room of Ramalingam.

He took the notebook and cast a cursory look at the contributions of the people.

‘Last year the collection was very poor! Now this time they are very large-hearted! Yes, good collection! My burden has been lessened’, saying this, he offered five thousand rupees!

Shivanesan and Vinayagam were left speechless!