Posted on January 23rd, 2021
By Rohana R. Wasala
We
have all read or heard Aesop’s fable ‘The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey’: A man
and his young son set out taking their donkey to market to sell it there.
Listening to different censorious comments of a number of people they
encountered on the road, they first rode the animal, then they carried it.
First the man rode the horse, then the boy, then both of them together, and
finally, they started carrying the donkey tied to a pole by its legs; while
passing a bridge over a river, the donkey struggled to kick himself free, which