Brain over buffalo

 

The adage "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" is meant to inspire positivity and a can-do attitude in the face of hardship or disaster. Making lemonade is transforming lemons into something appealing or pleasant. Lemons are a symbol of sourness or difficulties in life.

While the authentic owner has been occupied making frantic searches everywhere, his best endeavours appear to have run into a bind. 

Although it was considered wholly a lost case, efforts remained to reach the point of truth.  One poor villager's buffalo reached another place, and the man who caught it saw every benefit in catching the milch animal by chance.

His intention turned devilish and he visualised that he would cover up the falsehood overtly or covertly. it is more often repeated that village people are honest but seldom follow honesty, especially in such tricky matters. 

He tied it near his pond and showed no tint of an honest desire to give the buffalo back to its rightful owner. Of course, it was a grave dishonesty in a nation where Gandhi had claimed to uphold the truth-seeking philosophy.

Finally, the police were contacted about the incident. After all, two people were claiming respective ownerships over the buffalo, thus it appears in all probability a difficult task to identify the true owner.

In such an extremely precarious situation, the Police officer reportedly thought of a solid solution, he made both parties stand outside the gate of the police station under the Maheshganj police station of the district. 

Wandering the entire distance with its slow pace, the buffalo reached Nandlal. In such a situation the buffalo was finally given to Nandlal the owner. The animal was left free

The villagers also agreed with this fact-finding decision and both the claimants Nandlal and Hanuman respectively were asked to stand on opposite sides of the road to their village. 

After the matter was resolved, the buffalo was released from the police station and it directly followed Nandlal towards Rai As-karanpur village in Pratapgarh district of Uttar Pradesh.