Chapter 5 the piper of manas summary
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‘The Piper of Manas’ is a lesson written by Deepika Murthy.
The lesson is a true story about an incident that took where a baby Rhinoceros responds to nothing else but how music changed him.
When the Brahmaputra flooded the Kaziranga National Park on a storm, a baby rhino loses the track of his mother. Dr Subhendu Phukan, who was a veterinarian from other national park happens to notice this baby rhino who seemed confused and shocked standing on a tree.
As a vet, he understands that the baby rhino needs attention and care. So he brings the rhino home. He finds the rhino in a manic state where he would not respond for anything. He would not have his food neither would he react to anything.
But Dr Phukan’s children Arnab and Radhika get so excited about this cute baby rhino. They kept watching him from afar. Arnab is a flute player and when he played the flute, Radhika danced to the music. It gets wondrous as to how the baby rhino responded to the flute while nothing else could move him.
Finally, they found a way to get Baahi (as the name given to the baby rhino by the children) back to normal. Every time Arnab played the flute, the Baahi would come running and respond to the music. Till then, no one studied the result of music on animals like rhinoceroses. This cute little rhino was so special.