The Hare, The Tortoise – and Superstition! by Subir Shukla As you know, there are many kinds of superstitions – some believe that if a cat crosses your path ‘something will happen’, others feel that a sneeze is a bad omen, and yet others believe that just because in an old story a tortoise won a race against a hare, it is the ‘slow and steady’ who will always win! Made you pause a little, didn’t it? And since you have paused, you may as well think a little. In the story, the slow and the steady won only when the one who could run fast went...