https://www.pitara.com/tags/daily-life/Recent content in Daily Life on Pitara Kids NetworkHugoen-usSat, 13 Jun 2026 21:46:31 +0530https://www.pitara.com/fiction-for-kids/stories-for-kids/waiting-for-the-rain/Sat, 15 Dec 2001 23:13:10 +0000https://www.pitara.com/fiction-for-kids/stories-for-kids/waiting-for-the-rain/<p>I hope it rains at least today,&quot; Velu thought, as he opened his eyes. Velu was a farmer.</p> <p>The sun was beginning to rise, glowing crimson like fire. Velu scanned the sky. There was not a cloud.</p> <p>&ldquo;It doesn’t look encouraging,&rdquo; he muttered to himself and got up.</p> <p>Rain or no rain, a farmer wakes up early. Velu worked hard. His piece of land never failed him. Season after season he cultivated it, harvesting jowar one season and dal the next. Throughout the year he worked, never thinking of rest or taking a holiday. For nearly six years it had been so, ever since he had got his own piece of land.</p>