Why can't you tickle yourself? What makes the Ajanta Caves special? What do these questions have in common? Their answers can be found in Mocomi TimePass Magazine Issue 4!

2. One day, Mullah Nasruddin and his son were
travelling to the next town. Nasruddin preferred to
walk while his son rode the donkey. On the way,
they passed a group of bystanders, and a man
donkey while his poor old father is forced to walk
alongside. That is so disrespectful. What a horrible
and spoiled child!”
donkey and asked Nasruddin to get on it instead.
His son started walking beside him and the donkey.
Soon they passed another group of people. “Oh,
that’s detestable!” one of them exclaimed. “That
poor young boy has to walk while his abusive
father rides the donkey! That horrible man should
be ashamed of himself for the way he’s treating his
son. What a heartless parent!”
Nasruddin was upset to hear this. He wanted to
avoid anybody else’s scorn, so he decided to have
both himself and his son ride the donkey at the
same time. As they both rode, they passed another
group of people. “That man and his son are so
cruel,” one bystander said. “Just look at how they
are forcing that poor donkey to bear the weight of
two people. They should be put in jail for their
despicable act. What scoundrels!”
Nasruddin heard this and told his son,
“I guess the only way we can avoid being
ridiculed by anyone, is for both of us to walk.”
“I suppose you are right,”the son replied.
But as they passed another group of people, they
heard them laughing. “Ha, ha, ha,” the group
laughed rudely. “Look at those two fools. They are
so stupid that both of them are walking under this
scorching hot sun and neither of them is riding the
donkey! What morons!”
Moral – Well, If you keep doing what other people
want, neither would you be happy nor will they
stop judging you.
FOLKTALE
Mullah Nasruddin and
the People’s Judgement
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FIND 8
HIDDEN
OBJECTS
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4. PONDERING CORNER
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5. Why can’t we
tickle ourself?
Discover A New Place
The Ajanta caves in Maharashtra are an Indian
national heritage site that are recognized as
one of the world’s greatest historical monu-
ment by UNESCO. There are 29 caves in
Ajanta, with most of them being monasteries!
History of the Ajanta Caves
Discovered in AD 1819, the caves in Ajanta
were built sometime around the 2nd Century,
Waghora River.
Interesting Facts about the Ajanta Caves
The caves are numbered in order from east to
west.The caves 9, 10, 19, 26 and 29 were what
are called “chaitya-grihas”, meaning prayer
halls. The rest of the caves were monasteries.
These caves are full of beautiful art, in the
form of sculptures and paintings.
All the paintings depict the life and times of the
great Gautama Buddha. They also speak of the
various Bodhisattva’s and tales from the Jataka’s.
Although the story of Buddha has many compo-
sitions, from Roman and Greek to Chinese, a ma-
jority of the story told here is from a phase that is
purely Indian, and cannot be found anywhere
else.
SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ajanta
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Sam Visits Ajanta
When you’re tickled, you laugh, which is indeed
a joyful and refreshing feeling. But why it fails to
happen when we touch our self?
Touch is an extremely
sensitive feeling. When
you’re touched, the nerve
beneath your skin passes an
amusing current to your
brain which tells us to laugh.
Such sweet tickle attacks
takes place only in the sensi-
tive portions of our body
such as stomach, portion
near the throat and under
our feet.
Basically, when we tickle
ourselves, the cerebellum
sitting at the back of the
brain tells you that you are
about to self-tickle and so
the it doesn’t waste up
precious time interpreting
the signals from the tickle.
Gorillas and rats do laugh
when they are tickled, but do
it at your own risk.

6. spot ten differences
We all have days when we feel a little dis – organised. But sometimes a few days of being
dis–organised can become a bad habit. Soon, we start becoming messy, and start creating a
messy environment around us. We misplace things or even allow them to get spoilt. What do you
think? Would you like to visit a friend’s house and see a messy room. An unkempt bed, leftover
food, or all their books all over the place. Obviously, no!
So let’s keep our rooms organised and clean. Because we like coming back to a clean room!
Coley & Bumbley
Keep your room clean and organised!
About health and more!
Why
would you need
binoculars in your own
room Bumbley?
I am looking for an
assignment I need
to submit in school
today.

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8. Tickle
your
funny
bone
What should you
bring to a party in
the jungle?
Chimps and Dip!
What kind of
Hot Air Baboon
What kind of a key
opens a banana?
A monkey!
AMUSING NEWS
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9. a comic story
jojo

10. She opened her eyes slowly, yawning loudly to shake
at the time, it was 2 minutes to 7. Any moment now,
she knew her mother would come through the
door to wake her up. She heard a knock
at the door and it slowly swung open.
There stood a robot, holding her ironed
school uniform. Wait, what was going
on?
Complete the Story....
•
• Bananas are naturally slightly radioactive.
• A strawberry is not a berry, a banana is.
• India produces more bananas than any other country.
• Bananas have been depicted in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
• Bananas contain a natural chemical called‘Serotonin’which makes people happy.
• Humans are 50% identical to bananas as they share about half of the same DNA.
•
with Hamlet the Hamsterfunfacts
10 Interesting Facts About Bananas

11. HELP the BEAR to FIND mum
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