Question

the poem The Tale of melon City premiarly provoke fun and laughter yet it conceal a great lesson what it is

Answer 1

In the tale of melon city vikram seth lampoons the idiosyncratic and idiotic governance that is thrust on people sometimes. The bureaucracy and the professionals keep passing the buck in the poem. No one is ready to own up their folly.

some incidents like:_

• The king who desired for a hang to punish the guilty, gets hanged for the public wanted a hang.
• The wise man was selected because he was old and he could not see anything and points the arch to be the guilty and should be hanged without any precision.
• The ministers chose a king on basis of a fool’s choice. i.e. a melon. And all accepted without bothering whether the king was human or not.

The Tale of melon City premiarly provoke fun and laughter yet it conceal a great lesson

By making an idiot choose the king. Vikram seth only wishes to highlight how the thoughtless and foolish people go about choosing irresponsible governments and then adopt a lackadaisical attitude to the powers that be as long as they are allowed to live.