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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