Your parents must have often warned you against stealing your friend s objects. Your mother must have even spanked you for bringing your classmate s pencil home on the sly. Here we tell you something interesting about an imaginary manual for thieves. However, the manual is to be taken in the right spirit. Do not let them exploit your weaknesses.
Thefts are a common social evil.
The menace was prevalent in ancient India too. No wonder, thieves figure very prominently in ancient Indian folklore. The traditional storytellers used the characters of thieves to add humor to their human-interest stories. Ironically, they raised the status of thieving to a profession with a separate science of its own. They also made it into an art which called for adequate education and training.