India, Dec. 1 -- Aeschylus, the Greek tragedian, wanted to know how he was destined to die. Hence, he consulted a fortune teller who told him the truth and nothing but the truth. "You would meet your death under a falling house and get crushed." The dramatist who made the struggle and crisis of his own days his raw material decided to escape such a tragic death. Hence, he spent most of the days in the open country.

The appointed day of his death came, of course, without announcement. As he was standing bare-headed, enjoying the many splendoured nature in the field, a vulture mistook his bald pate for the top of a rock and dropped the tortoise it was gripping in its talons right on it. And the poor dramatist was crushed to death in the mi...