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The Blind Men and The Elephant

The story follows six blind men who each touch different parts of an elephant and describe it based on their limited experiences, leading to confusion and disagreement. A guide explains that each man's perception is only partial, emphasizing the importance of understanding the whole truth. The moral highlights how individual perspectives can lead to differing beliefs about reality.

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The Blind Men and The Elephant

The story follows six blind men who each touch different parts of an elephant and describe it based on their limited experiences, leading to confusion and disagreement. A guide explains that each man's perception is only partial, emphasizing the importance of understanding the whole truth. The moral highlights how individual perspectives can lead to differing beliefs about reality.

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The Blind Men and The Elephant

Characters:
Narrator: Raghav
Blind man 1-Pranshul BM1
Blind man 2-Bhavya BM2
Blind man 3-Arth BM3
Blind man 4-Aryadeep BM4
Blind man 5-Vivaan BM5
Blind man 6-Panay BM6
Guide: Mivaan

Narrator: An elephant! Everybody, come see it, it’s coming!


Everybody come out, come and see the elephant... An elephant!
A few blind men enter walking slowly with their cranes and talk
about the elephant.
Pranshul BM1: I don't know what an elephant looks like.

Bhavya BM2: Me neither.

Arth BM3: Me neither.

Aryadeep BM4: I would like to know how an elephant looks like.

Vivaan BM5: Let's wait so we can touch it.

Panay BM6: We will touch it with our own hands. Our fingers are our eyes.

Guide: (enters with the elephant). Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, this big elephant needs
to

walk through here. Be careful.

Pranshul BM1: My Good man, please let us poor blind men touch your elephant. We want
to know what it looks like.

Guide: OK. You may do so one by one. He's not dangerous. Don't be afraid.

Narrator: Blind man 1 touches the elephant’s body.


Pranshul BM1: Hhmm, I can see. The elephant is like a rough wall.

Narrator: Blind man 2 touches the elephant’s leg.


Bhavya BM2: No, you are wrong. The elephant is like a tree.

Arth BM3: That's a lie! My hands tell me that the elephant is like a spear.

Aryadeep BM4: You are all wrong. I also touched it and I am sure that it's like a hand fan.

Vivaan BM5: I'm sure the elephant looks like a snake.

Panay BM6: No way! think that the elephant looks like a

rope.

Pranshul BM1: Why don’t you believe me? I am sure that it looks like a wall.

Bhavya BM2: I am telling you that it looks like a tree.

Vivaan BM5: No, it's like a snake.

Arth BM3: Snake? Not at all! I am sure it looks like a spear.

Aryadeep BM4: No! No! It looks like a hand fan.

Panay BM6: It's a rope! It's a rope!

Narrator: the blind men start fighting with each other. There's great
confusion.
All together: Ouch, ouch... but I am

right...It's a rope... It's a wall... It's a spear... No, it's a hand fan... A tree, it's a tree...

Mivaan: Calm down, calm down! listen... I will explain everything.

(there's silence on stage)

All together: What? Why?

Mivaan: (goes near the elephant) Each of you touched only a part of the elephant.

The one who touched the body thought it was a wall.

The one who touched the leg thought it was a tree.

The one who touched the tusk thought it was a spear.

The one who felt the ear thought it was a hand fan.

The one who touched the trunk remembered the snake,

and the one who only touched the tail, was sure that the elephant was like a rope.
Pranshul BM1: Now l understand. Yes, that's what happened and we all got angry.

Vivaan BM5: We behaved like fools.

Bhavya BM2: We were wrong.

Arth BM3: All of us thought we were right.

Aryadeep BM4: But none of us was.

Guide: Of course, to know the truth we have to know every part.

Pranshul BM1: We thank you, and the elephant too, for teaching us we should try to know
the whole truth.

Bhavya BM2: Let's all be friends again.

Vivaan BM5: Let's all get to know the elephant.

Narrator: The blind men walk around the elephant touching it at the
same time and getting to know it entirely.
The Moral of this story is that people always believe what is true
based on their own experiences and limited perspectives.

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