Why money can’t buy happiness is often explained through long speeches and weighty arguments. The people of Goa have a rather more unusual answer. It involves a miser, a jar of gold, a magnificent cake and a baker who found fortune knocking at his door not once, but twice.

Once upon a time, there lived a barber called Daapan in a village in Kashmir. He was as poor as a church mouse. He owned a small shop and barely managed to buy two square meals for his mother and himself. One day, he overheard his customers sharing a story about a beast, who could Read more…

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