summery of tales of bhola grandpa
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Manoj Dos (1934] is an Indian award-winning bilingual writer who writes in Oriya and English. He has written many novels, shortstories, poems, travelogues and articles on history and culture.
This text is an edited version of Das’s short story which narrates Bhola Grandpa 's hilarious adventures seen through the eyes of a young man who had known him closely. The simplicity and forgetfulness of Bhola Grandpa provides an element ofhumour on which the story hinges.
Bhola Grandpa and his wife lived at the western end of our village. A large bokal tree overshadowed their hut. In the bokal tree lived a small troop of monkeys. Bhola Grandpa and his wife did not mind it.
One moonlit night, we were returning from a festival. The road was long and foggy. l was riding on the village chowkidar's shoulders. Suddenly, Bhola Grandpa let out a loud wail. Everyone in our party was surprised. We halted. Enquiry revealed that Bhola Grandpa had taken his grandson to the festival. He had tightly held on to the two fingers of the boy. He did not realize when those fingers slipped out. Bhola Grandpa was continuing as before. Then someone asked Bhola Grandpa what he was gripping. He remembered his grandson and let out a loud wail.
Bhola grandpa is the main character of the story "the tales of Bhola Grandpa" written by Manoj Das. Bhola was a simple man who used to forget now and then. Once on a moonlit night the narrator saw him forgetting his grandson. Because of others warning he became conscious and let out a loud wail.
Oneday Bhola grandpa told the narrator and his friends about a treasure hidden by pirates. They all started searching. After a long painstaking search, Bhola told them that he saw the pirates in his dreams and not in reality.
One evening while returning from the weekly market, Bhola grandpa fell in front of Royal Bengal tiger. Instantly Bhola climbed up a banyan tree and saved himself. But the tiger was keeping watch on him continually. At night Bhola fell asleep on the tree and in the morning waking up, Bhola came down the tree and walked away. By that time he completely forgot the presence of tiger under the tree. As the tiger was also sleeping, he was saved from the tiger's clutches.
When Bhola died at the age of ninety five, his eighty years old wife wailed a lot and uttered that her husband must have forgotten to breathe.