A few days back I read the story of 'The Tiger and the Traveller' from the Hitopadesha: http://tinyurl.com/kqsw39 http://tinyurl.com/kqsw39 . My first thought w

A few days back I read the story of 'The Tiger and the Traveller' from the Hitopadesha: http://tinyurl.com/kqsw39 http://tinyurl.com/kqsw39 . My first thought was 'That's microsoft !' That story is very short, the Hitopadesha is much longer (it's a collection of tales, a bit like Aesop's Fables which are more well-known in the west. It's set up as a morality play, but it occurs to me that there is a certain amount of market wisdom embedded in such tales too. Maybe they contribute to the success of Indians as traders (if that isn't just a stereotype?)