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Articles: Short Stories | Bed Time Stories
- Mr. VNS Raju Inapakutiki
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The Bed Time Stories That I weaved and narrated simultaneously - as compelled by my daughters Nikhila and Krishna.
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My first child Nikhila is very comfortable with whatever story I tell her. Hence it was a cakewalk for me to weave for her bedtime stories and narrate them (one for a night of course!) simultaneously. My second child Krishna (my 5 year old daughter) is different. Her habit is to demand a bedtime story with characters of her choice. There were nights she demanded three stories at a stretch with characters of her choice. Subsequently I was able to strike a deal with her to restrict the demand to one story a night, with much difficulty. The characters she prescribes are astonishingly like: a woodpecker, an aunt and a Tata – an old man generally referred to as Tata the Grand Papa.
The condition is that I should start the story as soon as she declares the characters in it! It is intellectually very stimulating and sometime very embarrassing for me on certain nights. I have with much difficulty remembered some of these stories and reproduced them in black and white with a hope that you enjoy reading them.
In the night of 2nd December 2004 she ordered me to weave a story with a little frog and a big buffalo! Please read my struggle:
1. The Little Frog and the Big Buffalo
One day a Little Frog happens to see a buffalo on its way to the pond and is stopped by it. The little frog got surprised.
What the hell are you doing by jumping like this? Yelled the big buffalo at the little frog
This is how I walk responded the frog with a surprise
You have got four legs like any other animal and why can’t you just walk? Buffalo again yelled with the same anger.
Now the little frog understood the confusion the big buffalo had and it turned upside down and asked:
Look my dear big buffalo how my legs are made. I do have four legs but the hind ones are differently made hence I can’t walk and I can only jump to cover distances.
Ho I am sorry – pleaded the big buffalo
I am really sorry for showing my anger at you without knowing the reason. I shall be your friend from now on wards and I shall carry you now to wherever you want to go. Please let me know where do you want to go – requested the buffalo
The little frog felt very happy with the sudden change in the behavior of the big buffalo.
I need to got to the pond near that banyan tree but I do not know how to climb on to your back – said the little frog
Do not worry I shall sit down so that with one leap you can jump on to my back – suggested the big buffalo
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