I thought she was Mother Cauvery, but she looks more like "Cauvery problem" now......Sigh!
"ಜಾಣ ಜಾಣರಿಗೆ ಮೂರು ದಾರಿ ಜಾಣ ಕೋಣರಿಗೆ ಎರಡು ದಾರಿ ಕೋಣ ಕೋಣರಿಗೆ ಒಂದೇ ದಾರಿ" So goes one of the old sayings in Kannada. A rough translation: Three paths for two wise men, Two for a wise man and a fool, Only one for two fools. The story is that there was a stretch of very narrow path which could accommodate only one at a time. When two wise men came to it from opposite sides, each thought of avoiding a conflict and took parallel paths on either side of it at short distances. So, effectively there were three paths available for the pair. When a wise man and a fool encountered the same situation, the wise man wanted to avoid a conflict, and hence took a parallel path, and the fool smugly went on the narrow stretch, thus there were two paths available for the pair. When two fools encountered the same situation, both continued in the narrow stretch, came face to face, argued for a long time, and ended up fighting and getting injured, thus ending up with only one path - that of...