BHOLA GRANDPA

PROJECT FOR CLASS—IX

CREATIVE WRITING

Write a story about a man, as funny as Bhola Grandpa, within 150 words.

A FUNNY TALE OF TARINI KHURO

            Once upon a time a middle-aged man, commonly known as Tarini Khuro, was living in a hut at a remote village called Daserchak. He was staying with his wife, son, daughter-in-law and grandson, Nani who was a very cunning boy. Tarini Khuro, from his young age, was a man of forgetful mind. He could narrate many present events, but could never recount his gone by incidents of his life.

            On a summer evening he, with Nani, went to enjoy a football match in the village field. The match was played between a team of Daserchak and a team of the neighbouring village called Chandipur. At the end, the team of Daserchak won the game. Every village folk of Daserchak became jubilant. Tarini Khuro, too, began to rejoice for the victory along with others forgetting all about Nani. At dusk Tarini Khuro alone took his way to come back home. As soon as he reached near the vicinity of his house, he suddenly screamed and started lamenting. The neighbours rushed to him and asked, “What has happened?” Tarini Khuro confessed that he had lost Nani in the football field. Immediately his son and the local people, forming a searching party, went back to the field to detect Nani, but their attempts went in vain. Night gradually descends. Naturally, being extremely worried, when the inquiring team left no stone unturned to look for Nani, a villager informed them that the village headman had arranged a stageplay in his lawn. They had better go there.

            Accordingly the party went there. Amidst huge audience it was difficult to find out Nani. But an abnormal situation favoured party’s luck. When the opera-play ‘Aami Subhas Balchi’ was on and the whole audience was viewing that with rapt attention, suddenly, to everyone’s surprise, out of the assembly, Nani, standing up and licking a mango stone, cried out Aami Subhas Balchi. Then and there he was caught and brought back home. Seeing Nani, Tarini Khuro regained normalcy.                                                [± 330 words]

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BHOLA GRANDPA

PROJECT FOR CLASS-IX (1)

CREATIVE WRITING

Write a story about a man, as funny as Bhola Grandpa, within 150 words.

AN AMUSING STORY OF DHANADADU

            Dhanadadu and his wife Menoka granny were living in a small cottage at Hatkhola village. The village roads were made of mud. Big trees raised their heads on both sides of the roads. Besides, several stray dogs would move here and there. Dhanadadu plough his own land to grow paddy only. Moreover, he was a man of forgetful nature.

            On a rainy dusk Dhanadadu went to the village market with his half-broken umbrella and a wallet to bring vegetables in exchange of excess paddy he produced. On his way back home, in the midst of darkness, torrential rain, that started, was soon converted to drizzling. Dhanadadu carried his open umbrella in one hand and the wallet with the other. He was proceeding very carefully step by step. Then all on a sudden, unexpectedly, a rabid dog, probably considering Dhanadadu as a thief with a bag, chased him from behind with continuous barking. Looking back and seeing the mad dog, Dhanadadu got so frightened that he, throwing his umbrella, the wallet and his sandal aside, climbed up a nearby peepul tree. From the top of the tree he faintly noticed below that the dog was still crying showing his canine teeth.

            However, there was a short pause. Gradually night deepens. This time Dhanadadu abruptly and frequently began to sneeze producing loud sounds. Hearing the sounds, the dog also resumed barking. This game of sneezing and barking went on for some time. Amidst this Dhanadadu felt drowsy and finally slept clinging a branch of the tree. Then there was a long interval. At dawn, Dhanadadu, forgetting all the incidents of the lunatic dog, came down from the tree and proceeded towards his home. On the way, he met Haripadababu, his friend, who asked him, “Where are you coming from so early in the morning?” Then accidently Dhanadadu recalled the episode of the previous night and fainted on the road out of fear. Haripadababu, with the help of local people, brought Dhanadadu at home. Getting his husband back, Menoka granny breathed a sigh of relief and began to nurse him.                                                                                                                                                [± 345 words]

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