FICTION and FANTASY - 08 INK

 

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 On a sunny afternoon of a friday of JANUARY 1995 , in a small bank in a village KUNDGAL (fictional) of KUNDGOLA TALUK of North Karnataka of India, the employees took to their regular lunch break between 2 to 2.30 pm and closed the bank counters.

Mr.KATAGHI was the manager of the bank ,Mr.PUJARI ,Mr.MENSINKAYI & Mrs.GEETA were the clerical staff ,Mr.SHEKHAR and Mr.BABU were the attending staff and Mr.SHERSINGH ex-ARMY soldier was the security guard of the bank, the Bank's name was DWDBI bank.

The employees took their stroll towards the Staff room where they opened their lunch boxes on a old wooden table which had the seating arrangement for 8 with old iron chairs.

Mr.KATAGHI asked the staff to finish their lunch as soon as possible as the new shipment of 10 lakh rupees was being sent to their BANK in the afternoon from their BANK's main Bangalore Branch.

Mr.PUJARI asked the manager to be calm down and have the food and leave the rest to the staff, to this Mr.MENSINKAYI also nodded his head in agreement.

Mrs.GEETA asked the manager to request the main branch people for a new locker for the bank as the previous locker installed was 30 yrs old and didnt have any advanced security lock system and had 3 key lock system with high guage IRON walls and doors.

As the clock ticked past 2.25 pm the staff got up after finishing their daily POTLUCK  and hurried to their respective tables in the main room of their bank, and the attenders then took their turn and entered the lunch room to have theirs.

Mr.SHERSINGH stood outside the main door of the BANK building,which was situated next to the main BUS STOP of the village. And the POST office of the villlage was exactly opposite to the BANK.

The TEMPO TRAVELLER from Bangalore with high security arrived in front of the BANK and the Stainless suitcases with the 10 lakh cash in different denominations were taken into the BANK.

Manager greeted the security personnel of the TEMPO TRAVELLER and asked them to escort the heavy suitcases to the LOCKER ROOM next to the main office room where all the Bank's money was present.

The MANAGER and Mrs.GEETA took the keys of the locker door which looked like a DOOR from ALI BABA's story from ARABIAN NIGHTS.

The cashbills was hoarded in their respective cash drawers of the locker and the door was closed and the staff returned to the MANAGER's table for the remaining formalities.

The TEMPO TRAVELLER security personnel asked the MANAGER to sign the shipment received ACKNOWLEDGEMENT so that they take leave and reach the city of BANGALORE before midnight.

The MANAGER asked the security personnel to have lunch at the small restaurant "HUBBALLI MANDAKKI" which was on the right side of the BANK, and also asked them to mention his name to the waiter so that their bill will be included in the BANK staff's monthly account book of the restaurant.To this the personnel left the BANK with a sigh of relief and happiness. Mr.SHERSINGH closed the main door of the BANK and stood with his service GUN by his shoulder near the entrance.

By 4.30 pm the clerical staff all finished up their work and submitted their daily work to the MANAGER and were getting ready to wind up the work for the day.

But Mr.MAHESHAPPA  one of the account holder in the BANK and who was the village panchayat head entered the BANK and went straight up to the MANAGER's table and asked him to help him withdraw 3000/- rupees from his account and sat on the old meshwound chair opposite to the MANAGER.

Manager told the village head -" Sir, we are about to close for the day. Can we do this transaction tomorrow first thing in the morning."

To this the head replied -" No Sir, it is very urgent as I need the money to buy groceries for the small function to be held at my home this SUNDAY.And also Iam here to invite you and your staff for the same."

To this the attenders Mr.SHEKHAR and Mr.BABU looked at eachother and slurrped their tongues imagining the prospective feast.

The MANAGER finally agreed to the VILLAGE head's request for the withdrawal and also gave his word that he will be attending the function on the SUNDAY with his staff.

The HEAD finally left the Bank with is money.

The young lad named THIMMA from the restaurant next to the bank brought the bank employees their regular evening TEA at 5.15 pm.The staff savoured the tea and started to lock all their table drawers and leave for home.

The MANAGER greeted the employees as they left and went to the main door and locked the main  door of the BANK with the two big locks of which one lock's key was with the SECURITY MR.SHERSINGH.

The same night Mr.Shekhar and Mr.BABU went to a local wine shop and had drinks and left to a local tent where usually new movies were showed by the local theatre people on every friday night.

After the movie Mr.BABU and Mr.SHEKHAR left the tent on the HERO cycle of Mr.BABU which he had brought from his home town SEEMAWADA (fictional town) of ANDHRA PRADESH state a year back ,but due to its overuse the cycle looked like it needed an ICU care.

On their way to their rented homes in the village of KUNDGAL Mr.SHEKHAR told to BABU - "HEY brother ,did you see the necklace Mrs.GEETA wore today in the office ,I hope one day I will buy the same kind for my wife."

To this BABU replied - " I think the liquor is too strong today for you.With the kind of salary we get we can only dream of such things but we cannot buy them."

To this SHEKHAR jokingly said -" Lets ROB the bank and leave the village my friend and we can settle anywhere in the world happily."

By now the two had reached Mr.SHEKHAR's house ,and BABU dropped him and told him to stop thinking such things as the BANK is the one which is feeding their homes and they are living a happy and respectable life.

To this Shekhar in half conscious state uttered to BABU that he knows HANAMESHA a local key maker from neighbour village who can help them with the keys and they can successfully rob the bank.

To this Mr.BABU nodded his head in disagreement and smiled at SHEKHAR and peddled towards his house which was half a mile away from SHEKHAR's.

On the next day i.e SATURDAY a half day for the bank all the employees of the bank reached by 9.45 AM so that they can finish their work and leave by 2pm in afternoon.

But to the surprise of the MANAGER ,the Village head entered the bank without even acknowledging greetings of Mr.SHERSINGH at the door and stood before the MANAGER's table.

The MANAGER asked the HEAD-" MAHESHANNA why are you at the bank so early today? Do you need more money for the function arrangements ?"

To this the village head with agony in his voice replied-" No Sir, I took all the money needed yesterday.But as I felt unwell last evening I thought I will return home and will buy the groceries today.And I kept my money in my small and secure almirah at my home.But there was a robbery at my home last night."

To this all staff and the people who had come to the bank for their banking work all looked towards the MANAGER and the village head with utmost surprise and curiosity.

The HEAD continued-" Yes Sir I need money.But not because it fell short but my hard earned money was robbed from my house yesterday night."

To this the MANAGER asked the village HEAD to settle down in the meshwound chair and offered him to drink some water.

The MANAGER then asked the village head to calm down and signalled his clerical staff to get the money from the locker and handed the Head's PASSBOOK to enter the new transaction.

One of the people who were in the BANK asked the HEAD about the unfortunate incident.

The HEAD then started to narrate -" I went back to my home last evening with the Rs 3000/- amount I withdrew from the bank and locked it in the safe of my almirah.And asked my wife to close all doors and windows of the house and went to sleep by 9pm.But today morning at 6am my wife came crying from kitchen to my bedroom and informed me that our almirah which is in the main hall of our house was wide open and all money was taken."

The Head after wiping his tears thanked the MANAGER for asking him to keep his GOLD in the BANK locker instead of his home which has saved him or else he would have also lost it in the robbery.

The MANAGER then asked the head-" Maheshanna kindly calm down and tell me whether you have reported this theft to the police?"

To this "The HEAD" replied -" No Sir, Once I leave from here I will be visiting to our TALUKA POLICE station to report about the robbery so that they can help me."

To this one of the person from the crowd in the bank yelled that THE Police will be of no use as this is the 3rd robbery in their village since last 6 months ,but the police has failed to catch the culprits.

To this everyone laughed in unision.

The MANAGER sshhed.. everyone and asked Mr.BABU to drop Village Head on his cycle to the POLICE STATION.

To this Mr.BABU nodded and asked THE HEAD to follow him outside.

The HEAD greeted NAMASTE to the bank staff and left with his belongings.

Then BABU dropped the HEAD to the POLICE station and told him-" SIR I will be outside ,you kindly finish the formalities and we can go back on my cycle as we came."

To this The HEAD thanked and entered the POLICE station.

There he saw Mr.NEGILUR- SUBINSPECTOR at his desk and two of  his constables at their respective small tables.

The Inspector greeted the village HEAD and asked him to sit and enquired about the yield in his land.

But the HEAD with fear and agony in his voice replied- "Sir I am lucky to be alive ,as there was a robbery at my house yesterday night and Rs 3000/- cash was looted.But to GODs kindness nobody was harmed."

To this the perplexed INSPECTOR asked the HEAD to head back to his house after filing his complaint, and informed that he would visit his place by evening for examination of the house for any evidence and further investigation.

To this one of the constable Mr.GANGU said-" AYYO ,first it was SOMA ,then the priest's house and now the VILLAGE HEAD ,what is happening in that village?"

To this the inspector looked angrily at his subordinate ,and asked him to go and fetch some water for the HEAD.

To this The HEAD after writing down his complaint said- Sir ,No need for that .Kindly do the needful for our village people so that we can be safe",and he left the police station with BABU on his cycle.

By now it was 2.30 pm and the bank employees were getting ready to leave their duties and go and enjoy the weekend.

While locking the door  of the BANK Mrs.GEETA said to the MANAGER -" Sir we should be extra careful till the thief is caught as he may even rob our BANK."

To this with a stern look on his face the MANAGER asked all his subordinates to be tension free and leave to their respective abodes.

By now BABU reached the outside of the BANK with the village HEAD.

The VILLAGE head informed the bank people- " Everyone of you please be there at my home tomorrow at 12 pm for the function.I hope the POOJA once performed tomorrow will keep the bad eyes of my home ."

To this all the employees nodded with surprise in their eyes and looked at eachother and left.

That evening at 6pm the COP  arrived on is BULLET bike with one of his constable for examination of the robbery site.

The village head and his wife greeted the COPS and gave them evening snacks ,and then asked them to have a look at the robbery site.

The COPS examined the belongings in the almirah one by one and to their surprise the lock was not broken but the lock was opened cleverly and the money was taken out of the almirah.

Then the COP asked the village HEAD where were the keys  when the robbery took place.

To this the HEAD replied-"Sir the keys were beside me near the pillow next to me on my bed and no one entered or left the bedroom as me and my wife didnt leave the room till 6am in the morning ,and we keep our room locked from inside during the night once we go to sleep."

The POLICE took all the evidence necessary and left the place.

The same night Mr.BABU paid a visit to the local wine shop for some liquor and was enjoying his drink with some CHAKNA on the side.

One of the person in the small shop started to blabber under the influence of alcohol -" Oh village people beware the village is under the dark watch of the thieves and you should be very observant of everyone or the whole village will be looted overnight."

To this few people started to talk among themselves that in all the robberies there was no breaking of the doors but all the robberies were cleverly carried out as if it was some clever ROOBER who is also may be a KEYMAKER.

At the very instance Mr.Shekhar arrived at the shop for his evening TONIQUE and looked at BABU and asked him to give the usual lift.

The next Day SUNDAY everyone gathered together for the POOJA at the village HEADs' home and even the COPS had arrived for the same .

The Village Pandit performed the rituals and everyone sat in the mainhall of the HEAD's home for the BANANA leaf meal which was organised.

During the feast the only talk among the people was about the robberies and how the POLICE are inefficient in catching the thieves.

The Cops left in frustration and the remaining villagers left with betel leaves and nuts in their mouth.

The BANK clerk Mr.MENSINKAYI while leaving the HEAD's house told all the people to keep their valuable belonging in their BANK locker like the village HEAD,which may help them in future.

The SUNDAY passed and the employees of the BANK entered the BANK at 9.45 AM on the MONDAY,but to their surprise a very bad news awaited them.

The NIGHT GUARD Mr.SOMA and the DAY GUARD Mr.SHERSINGH stood at the entrance of the bank locker room with their faces filled with fear.

The MANAGER shouted -"OH MY GOD." ,in agony and fainted.

The employees swiftly sprinkled water on the face of the MANAGER who fell unconscious.

Mr.BABU was asked to go and fetch the local Doctor.

And aftersome time the doctor arrived and the MANAGER woke up to the faces of his employees filled with fear and pain.

The BANK HAD BEEN ROBBED the previous night!!!

The COPS were dialed and they came running to the BANK.

The MANAGER gave the details and the COPS examined the robbery site ,and to their surprise the breakin was smooth with no locks broken.

The people of the village gathered outside the bank.And in few hours the talk had spread to the whole village.

Even few laughed at the BANK employees by yelling in anonimity-" You LOOSERS ,you asked us to keep our belongings in your BANK which had no proper safety of its own."

To this the BANK employees were covered with faces of shame and fear.

The MANAGER dialed to his MAIN headquarters in Bangalore and informed them about the incident.

The COPS informed the BANK people to shut the BANK till further orders.

The BANK people were asked to visit the POLICE STATION in evening for further questioning.

The COPS collected all the available information and evidence from the crime scene, and left to their abode.

That evening of MONDAY seemed like an evening of the DOOMSDAY for the BANK employees.

The S.I MR.NEGILUR examined the evidence and asked the bank employees one by one to enter the examination room to record their statements.

Firstly the night guard was called.

Mr.SOMA went in and he started to narrate the story-" Sir,Iam SOMA night guard for the BANK ,Iam a resident of the neighouring village and have been working for the BANK since last 3 yrs ,but last night to my surprise there was no such untoward event which took place ,but still the robbery was carried out under my nose without my notice."

SOMA also said-"Sir .If anyone has to be held accountable its me .Please hang me for I have put the other employees in danger.", and started to cry in a gut wrenching tone.

To this the COP assured him that the culprit will be caught and punished ,and he need not worry if he is innocent.

Next the COP asked the day guard to come in.

Mr.SHERSINGH sat opposite to the S.I and started to narrate his story-" Sir.Im SHERSINGH DAY guard of the BANK DWDBI.Iam from amritsar But after my army service I have joined the DWDBI BANK as security guard and have been in service for 2 yrs in this village.But on my watch nothing suspicious have occured and neither the BANK employees are inolved in this robbery as per my opinion.So kindly catch the thief so that all of us can have our jobs back."

To this the COP asked -" tell me SHERSINGH about the time you arrived at the BANK."

The guard replied-" Sir, I had got up at 7 in morning and left my home by 9 am after finishing my early morning activities at home to reach the BANK .And as me and SOMA opened the main door which was already open to our surprise and was not locked, but looked locked, and as we entered the BANK we saw the locker room open with all things taken away.And then the MANAGER arrived and dialed you for help."

After hearing this the COP asked the DAY GUARD to leave and asked the MANAGER to come in.

The same way MANAGER sat and narrated his side -" Sir.Iam the MANAGER of the BANK since last 5 yrs and I have taken care of the wealth in the BANK as my own and have seen that every person who kept his money with us always felt in safe hands.But unfortunately this has happened.I guess jail is the next abode for me and my family will be thrown out of this society as a result."

The MANAGER started to tear up.

The S.I intervened and told the MANAGER to calm down.

The S.I asked how much money was there in the BANK.

To this the BANK MANAGER replied-" Sir till last thursday we had 2 lakhs in cash and gold of worth 10 lakhs in our safety lockers of the local villagers.But on friday we received a shipment of cash of 10 lakh rupees which was supposed to be distributed as loan to the local farmers who had applied for loan in the last 6 months."

The COP was shocked to hear the amount of wealth that has been stolen in such a small village.

Then the COPS asked the MANAGER to leave and asked Mrs.GEETA to enter.

She even narrated the same story as the MANAGER but also added about the VILLAGE heads' house robbery story.

Then the Clerk Mr.PUJARI came in .

He started-" Sir.Iam from KARWAR district .Iam workng in this BANK since 4 yrs and have been requesting the MANAGER and higher authorities for the new lockers and they have not taken notice of it and now we have to face the consequences.YENTHA SAAVU MARAYRE!?!". HE too narrated the same story and left.

Next came Mr.Mensinkayi and he stood shivering in front of the COPS and started to puke.

The COPS calmed him down and gave him some water and also listened to his side of the story once he recovered his strength.

Next came in Mr.BABU.

The COP asked -"What did you see in the locker room and how many times he or others enter the locker room everyday?"

To this he replied- "Sir once a year we are asked to enter the locker room to clean.And the last time we cleaned was last JANUARY and the cleaning for this year was pending next week.And other than that only clerks and MANAGER are allowed to enter the BANK locker room everyday."

To this the COP asked the 1st attender to leave.

The attender on his way out giggled.

To this the constable asked -" Why are you giggling?"

To this BABU replied-" Sir last thursday SHEKHAR my collegue had asked me to rob the BANK with him and today the robbery has taken place.WHAT A SHAME?"

And then he continued that-" But Sir after alcohol everyone gets ideas but I dont think it has anything to do with this robbery.And now I think I will loose my job and have to go back to my hometown in ANDHRAPRADESH."

The COP was angry by now and asked SHEKHAR to enter.And asked him about the incident.

SHEKHAR replied-" Sir,Iam innocent have not done anything."

The Cop said-" But your friend said you had planned to rob the bank last week."

To this the Poor chap said-" Sir ,My mother is ill and bedridden and half my salary goes in her treatment every month ,so I have taken loan from many people in the village.So with that in mind and liquor I had blabbered something like that about the heist with the help of a keymaker to BABU."

OK You can go said the COP.

On his way out the constable asked -"DID you know any keymaker?"

To this SHEKHAR replied -"YES SIR ,HANAMESHA a keymaker in our neighbouring village is very famous and I had heard about him ,so I spoke childishly to ROB with his help to BABU."

To this the S.I got suspicious and asked SHEKHAR to stay back and asked others to leave.And the S.I asked his subordinates to collect the employees' fingerprints in front of him.

By now it was 8pm on Monday and the S.I also left to his abode.

In the night the SUB INSPECTOR was thinking and rethinking about the facts of the case but to his surprise he was not able to point at any of the staff or any person of the village as the culprit in the case.

His wife REKHA called him for the supper and was shocked to see the state of her husband and asked about it.

The SI narrated the whole story. His wife asked to have food and sleep, so that he will feel re-energised by tomorrow.

The SI sent for the KEYMAKER first thing in the morning on Tuesday, but to his astonishment he was nowhere to be found.

The SI asked his constable to bring all the evidence collected from the LOCKER room and spread it on his table.He started to examine even the dust amongst the evidence materials to get some clue.He saw some paper cuttings,Old switch wires and log book and old pen refills and some waste things and even found some nails and hairs.He putback all the things in the evidence package and sat to think about the case,and by now it was evening and the constable brought tea for the SI NEGILUR.

The people of village and BANK MANAGER visited the police station in evening to know about their case investigation.But to their surprise they were left in vain.

But the SI promised to catch the culprit.

To this few people of the village spoke in a tone of insult to the COPS and their method of work and left.

The BANK manager informed the POLICE that his higher authorities are visiting the village next day and it would be his last day as the MANAGER and left the POLICE STATION with tears in his eyes.

The SI was in so much tension that he left the STATION and went home that night and was sitting in his house VERANDAH under the moonlight and his wife came calling to him for his dinner.But the SI was in his deep thoughts.

The wife shouted at him to stop thinking about work so much and take some rest.She even blabbered-"AYYO,you take so much tension ,do you think this is the only village in the world.As we wake up everyday we read in NEWS papers about so much crime in this world,so much politics ,money ,mafia and other crimes.One should learn to be calm always and work like our SUPERSTAR R.KUMAR who doesnt care about ups and downs in his life but keeps working with confidence to reach his goals with personal content,he even didnt bother when the neighbouring SUPERSTAR from ANDHRA  GTR contested elections and became CM.Our R.KUMAR always takes correct decisions."

To this the SI looked at his wife angrily and shouted at her to go inside.

After sometime the COP went in to have his dinner and saw a strand of hair in his food for which he got very angry at his wife ,and at this moment it clicked in his mind.He sat there in front of his food holding the hair strand in his hand for quite some time.

His wife REKHA came out from kitchen to  see this and she was very scared about what is going to happen next.

But to her Surprise the COP jumped from his chair and started to shout-" EUREKA >>>EUREKA..."

To this his wife in a scared voice said -"Im REKHA ...REKHA ..not EUREKHA"

The SI looked at his wife and kissed on her forehead and said -" No my dear wife its EUREKA!! and I have solved the case because of you.Thank you."

To this wife was very happy and asked-" How did you solve it?"

To this SI replied-" I need to go to the STATION now will tell you everything later."

The SI asked the constable to get SHEKHAR out of the cell,and feed him.And also dialed BANK manager and asked him to get all his employees the next day to the POLICE STATION.

The SI arranged all his evidence and was sitting ready in the POLICE STATION allnight.

The next morning the BANK employees and village HEAD came to POLICE STATION and asked the COP about the reason for their summon.

The COP made everyone of them to sit down.And said-" I have solved the case and have all the money in my custody and culprit is sitting amongst you right now."

To this the BANK manager started to cry with joy and asked to tell about the whereabouts of the money.

The COP then asked his constable to get hold of Mr.BABU and pointed at him and yelled-" He is the MASTER thief."

To this whole gathering was shocked and everyone asked the COP what was the evidence to prove it.And also Mr.BABU started to shout Iam innocent the MANAGER and the COP are framing me to save their jobs and faces in front of everyone and pleaded for help from the villagers.

Now it was all above the limit for the COP and he jumped towards BABU and slapped him so hard that he fell to the ground with bleeding mouth.The COP shouted-" YOU ROGUE,YOU RASCAL,YOU THIEF."

To this the villagers calmed the SI and asked him tell everything clearly.

Then the COP had some water and sat in front of the villagers and started to narrate the real story-"During the collection of evidence I came across few things from the crime scene,which had many things but there was a thing with SHAAYI (INK) which solved the whole case."

To this the constable interrupted -" But Sir mere refills doesnt prove his crime."

"No" ,said the SI and exclaimed-" The evidence was the INKED human nail .Yes the indelible!! ink"

To this everyone was shocked.

SI continued-" Yes ,the human waste I got form the crime scene had a NAIL with INK on it and it is not some normal INK but the indelible ink which we use for voters during the elections.And recently there were assembly elections in ANDHRA and Mr.GTR is new CM of that state now."

To this poor villagers asked -" please explain in detail ,how is that election connected to our village robberies Sir.?"

The SI grabbed the collar of BABU and continued-" Look Mr.BABU comes from ANDHRA ,although he is married to a girl from our village his voting card is registered in ANDHRA where his parents live.So two months back he had gone to vote in his homestate and the EC indelible INK was put on his left INDEX finger.And he had not taken into notice about that toomuch.But On Sunday night when he planned the BANK robbery with KEYMAKER HANAMESHA .....YES the keymaker from nearby village ,during the robbery they had put chlorofrom over guard's face and had opened the locks and entered the locker room and had robbed the bank ,but during the robbery due to his BIG and SHARP nails one of his i.e. BABU's nails chipped off and fell into the crime scene.And during the investigation and fingerprints collection I had observed that only two people that is the MANAGER and BABU had cut their nails properly although BABU's were little bit uneven ,and rest of them had not.And when I remembered this all the case came stumbling down to my feet.And today morning we had informed local POLICE of ANDHRA of BABU's locality and they have caught HANAMESHA and BABU's brother in law at BABU's paternal house with all the ROBBED money of all 4 robberies of the village since last 6 months."

To this the villagers with more surprise with unified tone asked-" ALL 4 robberies?"

Yes smiled the SI-" HANAMESHA was the culprit behind the first 3 robberies ,but he had kept a low profile ,but was famous as the BEST KEYMAKER in nearby villages ,which reached BABU's ears via SHEKAR his collegue.On friday the 10 lakh shipment reached the BANK and on SUNDAY evening BABU visted HANAMESHA for the help. To his surprise HANAMESHA agreed to ROB the same night,as he shared the stories of his previous triumphs."

"Next after the Robbery BABU and HANAMESHA took the wealth in BAGS and took them to BABU's home on his cycle and in the midnight of SUNDAY BABU sent his brother in law to his home town along with HANMESHA and their wealth in BULLOCK cart ,and HANAMESHA had also taken all his belongings from his home on the way to ANDHRA as he thought he would never return back.BUT to his surprise the SHAAYI (INK) became their enemy."

To this BABU shouted -" Iam innocent ,I have nothing to do with this crime.Please save me."

Again the SI looked at BABU and said-" BABU ,the nail has the ink which usually remains for 1-3 months on the nails of the voter from the day of the application of the INK.And  there is new technique now a days which can prove that nail belongs to you via DNA testing.And even HANAMESHA and your brother in law have already accepted their crimes.So its better if you accept yours rather than creating a scene."

To this BABU looked at the sky and started to cry and fell down to earth ,and shouted in a heavy voice-" YES its me ...YES its me...I beg each one of you to forgive me."

To this the villagers tried to charge towards BABU, but the constables stoped it and took BABU into the cell and locked him.

The SI requested the villagers to calm down and asked BANK MANAGER and his superiors who had come from BANGALORE to wait till further formalities before they get their money and gold back.

To this all the villagers dispersed to their homes along with their VILLAGE HEAD.On the way back HEAD promised for a huge celebration at the village and appropriate prize for the SI and his team for their work.

The BANK manager thanked the SI and his team for such swift work.And left to his home back with his seniors.The seniors also promised the MANAGER for the new LOCKER for the BANK.

The SI told to his subordinates that he is going to get a good sleep and rest after along time and left to his quarters.

The SI's wife REKHA asked the SI on his arrival about how he solved the case and WHO IS EUREKA?

To this the SI sat in the verandah of his house and looked at his wife and said -"PLEASE SEE TO IT THAT I DONT GET HAIR STRANDS IN FOOD DURING THE DINNER TONIGHT."

                                      

                                               - Dr.B-rainbow-91

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FICTION and FANTASY - 07 LUMINOUS CARBUNCLE

                                  

                                   😇 HOLEYUVA  KALLU  😇

                                      LUMINOUS CARBUNCLE  

It was a stormy night and the tribe of a distant undiscovered island in the south of our earth were celebrating U-G-A-D-I the new year day in their calendar at the shore of the sea.Their tribe head was praying to GODS of nature for their blessings ,so that they can have a peaceful year ahead.

A broken Wooden log with an unconscious MAN like creature with blue thick trousers in it reached floating to the sea shore with a BIG weird cloth bag attached to one end of the LOG.

The tribe were very curious about this coloured log with a new creature which/who appeared similar to them but with more body hair and fair skin.

The tribe head  OOR HEPPLYA  asked his subordinates to carry the log with them and take it to the centre of their village where they had their houses with natural forest food stored for future.

The storm waned its severity as the night passed and SUN began to erupt from one end of the island.

The MAN like creature started to gain his consciousness and all the tribal people jumped to the trees near to them and watched the creature come out of the log.The MAN walked out with bent wounded knees and tried to reach for water which was kept in a BIG stone with hollow in it near to one of the houses of the village.

The MAN then looked at the tribe and shouted "CAN YOU HELP ME?" 

No one answered .

The MAN then made use of sign language to ask for food but the tribe didnt understand.Finally the man due to weakness fell unconscious again.

The tribal head OOR HEPPLYA called for a meet with his herd of around 100 near their HOLY COTTAGE and told everyone to carry the MAN and make him sleep in the HOLY COTTAGE so that he can get cured with the LOCAL GODS energy and from the nursing of tribal ladies.

3 days went by and a weird kind of light started to shine in the COTTAGE and the MAN walked out of the HOLY COTTAGE made of broken wood pieces and large leaves of the island trees.

He came out and tried to make friendship with the tribal people as they saved his life.

Days passed , months passed after that ,and MAN learned the local language of the tribe and started to live with them as he had no escape plan to leave the island.

First few days he taught the tribal people how to make fire using stones ,with which the tribe started to make food in a more better way.

Next few days the MAN taught people how to make a farmland and practice agriculture grow crops by using seeds from the forest fruits and grains.

After that he taught them to make clothes using LOTUS silk strands which grew in a muddy lake in the centre of the island.

The tribe then started to ask for more information everyday to the MAN.

The MAN used to go in HOLY COTTAGE every night and sit for meditation and ask GOD for help and a strange light use to shine around the bushes of small cottage ,and next day the MAN used to teach new things ,and answer the tribes' questions and use to make them more wiser.

After a year the MAN finally fully acclimatized to the lifestyle of the tribe asked the TRIBAL HEAD OOR HEPPLYA to give him permission to teach his people the language he knew i.e. ENGLISH.

The MAN then started to teach the tribe about ALPHABET characters he knew.

After many months the younger kids of the tribe learnt more quickly to speak the ENGLISH language but still had not the grip over learning and writing as it was little tough for them compared to their local improper dialect.

One day the Tribal heads' son OOR BADDIMAGA made a personal request to his master THE MAN to let him see what gets illuminated in MAN's cottage every night when he goes to sleep and next day the light will not be there when the people go to see the MAN in his cottage.

The MAN agreed and showed the young lad well carved carbuncles/stone like boxes which were in the fair guys' weird cloth bag.One stone was big and another was slightly small with shiny surface on one side.There was a provision to connect the both stones together with a small black rope with unique ends to it.

The lad asked the MAN -"Can you show me how the light appears?"

The MAN replied -" No, only the enlightened can see the light."

The lad asked again and pleaded -" See master next month I want to get married to love of my life and want to know whether I will be able to impress her. So I request you to give me the power and knowledge to use the stones so that I can impress my girl OOR SUNDRI like no one else.

The MAN with angry face rejected and went for a stroll after hiding his stones in his cottage near the HOLY GODS statues of the tribe ,so that no one can touch it thinking any such act should bring bad luck onto the tribe.

The young lad was very disappointed with the MAN and decided to do something to win the MAN's confidence so that he can get married to OOR SUNDRI.

A few weeks passed and it was again the new year's day for the tribe  i.e. their U-G-A-D-I and the young lad decided to finally win the confidence of his master THE MAN and learn about his precious stones/carbuncles.

In the mid noon he went near the abode of the tribal head where everyone had assembled to think of new year celebrations plans.

The young lad suggested -" As the sea is quite this year we will celebrate the new year's eve in the small round boats we have tied near shore which we use for fishing."

To that everyone agreed.Even the MAN agreed.

The celebrations started with a local folk dance of the tribal girls and then the sweet dishes were served to everyone which was prepared using FIRE knowledge and different recipes given to them by the MAN.

The tribal head was very happy and asked the MAN to ask for any offering he could offer in return for his generous nature towards the tribe.

Then came the MAN's TIME?!?

The MAN asked the head  to give him permission to get married to OOR SUNDRI. 

The head agreed without knowing his own sons' desire towards the same girl.

This Infuriated the young lad OOR BADDIMAGA.He decided to take some action so that the MAN never gets married to the girl he loves.

The Young lad went to the MAN and asked -"Why did you ask for the girl when you knew I loved her?"

To this the MAN replied -" See young boy the Stones/carbuncles have asked him to do like that."

To this the young lad got more infuriated and decided to teach the MAN a lesson of his life.

The young lad then offered his regards to his master and left for further festive celebrations for the evening.

The young lad went in deep forest of the island to get an intoxicating drink from a specific kind of tree groups ,which made the drinker have an alcohol like effect after drinking.It was called SOMRASA.

The lad returned with mud pots with the drink in them to the tribal abode where celebrations were on for the NEW YEAR.

The lad asked tribal head to ask everyone to assemble near their island coast port where they had their small boats so that they can enjoy the NEW YEAR in MOONLIGHT and have the feast of night.

To this everyone agreed including THE MAN.

Then the young lad rushed to the HOLY GODS abode and took the BIG STONE/carbuncle  of MAN with its unique rope and hid it in his tribal attire near his BANAnaNA (private part in tribal language).😁

And the lad left to the shore.

After few hours OOR BADDIMAGA went near the MAN in one of the boats where he was feasting and offered him the special drink he had got from the forest.

The MAN tasted the drink and asked for more as it was very tasty, and after few gulps he started to lose his consciousness. The young lad then asked few other men who were in the same boat to leave as the MAN needed to sleep. To that the people agreed and left.

Then the lad tookout the stone and hit it hard on the head of the MAN and saw to it that the MAN finally lost his consciousness.Then the lad tied the stone to MAN's hands with the special rope so that he cant swim if he wakes up while drowning.Slowly the lad rowed the boat which contained the MAN off the shore so that it floated to the middle of nowhere.He even took the long sticks which were there in the boat and swam back to the shore to rejoin the festivities of the tribe.

Everyone enjoyed the night and slept off with bloated bellies filled with feast and local sweet drink extracts from fruit trees of the island.

The next Day the tribe gathered near the HOLY COTTAGE to see that the MAN has left their island with the BOAT.

Everyone wept and taught it was badluck.

But the young lad intervened and told everyone that the MAN had left with his own consent and now wanted to visit the heaven to meet GODS ,and thus he had left with the BOAT of their village.

Then the lad announced -" As the OOR SUNDRI was to be married to the MAN ,now she can be married only to the next heir of the tribal head and that is me."

To this whole tribe gathered near the HOLY COTTAGE to complete the OOR BADDIMAGA and OOR SUNDRI's marriage ritual.

But one small kid searched the bag of the MAN which was left behind in the cottage and it contained one small beautiful stone/carbuncle.This young kid OOR BADYA then held it up and took to the tribal head who was standing next to the HOLY GODS statue in the cottage.

The Head OOR HEPPLYA then held the luminous stone with its unique ALPHABET engraving and looked it with his twinkly eyes and announced that - "The MAN, our master has left us his souvenir to be kept safe in this HOLY COTTAGE next to HOLY GODS STATUES ,and this carbuncle would bring us the good luck and blessings of the GODS."

From that day on the light never appeared in the HOLY COTTAGE and OOR BADDIMAGA was happily married to OOR SUNDRI.

One year later on the new year eve.The tribal head was beaming with happpiness as he was blessed with a grandson and wanted to keep a naming ceremony for him.To this he asked all tribal folks to think of a name and assemble near the HOLY COTTAGE in the evening for the ceremony and also for the new year's feast.

In the evening everyone assembled and decided on one thing which was suggested by OOR BADYA and that was to keep the name of the neonate after the engraving on the carbuncle/stone left behind by their master THE MAN.

To this everyone agreed. The whole tribe performed the naming ritual.

Finally the head OOR HEPPLYA held his grandson high to the RED BLUE SKY of the evening and announced the name of the neonate with his baritone voice so that everyone can hear in the assembly, i.e. S--A--M--S--U--N--G --G--A--L--A--X--Y--M--3--1--S--A--T--E--L--L--I--T--E--P--H--O--N--E.

(Need more logic?????

P.S.- The BIG STONE tied with special rope onto the hands of the MAN was having engraving 

R-E-C-H-A-R-G-E-A-B-L-E- -S-O-L-A-R-- P-O-W-E-R-- B-A-N-K  ,and the rope was

 C-H-A-R-G-E-R--O-F--S-A-T-E-L-L-I-T-E- -P-H-O-N-E) 😇

 

                                                    - Dr.B-rainbow-91

                                                        

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FICTION and FANTASY - 06 "YEAR : 2992 AD" UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN

 

                          📆 "SAMVATSARA  : 2992 AD"  PUNAR MILAMAH📆

                           "YEAR : 2992 AD" UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN

        

It was an invigorating and orange filled sky evening of the year 2992 AD  ,and a student named VIKRAM was sitting with a scientist who was an eldest member of  Humankind alive and famous as 'THE LAST MAN ON THE PLANET EARTH' on edge of a stony beach with slippery moist surface and both were savouring the beauty of the evening with their eyes.

The student looked at the legendary man beside him and asked -"Mr.NVN ,can I ask you a question?"

To this Mr.NVN replied -"YES, please "

Then the student asked- " You are famous as the last man on earth ,everybody has heard the story or read from books about you ,but nobody has heard from you in person right?"

To this the legend smiled and replied -" Yes, VIKRAM.I guess to some extent people know me by the literary records."

Then Vikram told Mr.NVN that he has got this opportunity to meet him as a prize for being topper in his school and he doesnt want to waste this chance and wants to hear the real story behind the LAST MAN ON EARTH legend.

To this Mr.NVN replied -"The story which you have heard about me is true only, and again why you want to hear that from me ?"

Vikram-" Sir ,you are one of the reasons why humanity is alive today and you are equivalent to GOD to many of us ,so its not only a privilege but a great matter of honour for me to be here, and I dont want to waste this chance ,but want to listen to the real story behind the legend or you can say the history which everybody knows but no one wants to repeat ."

To this Mr.NVN replied -Sure my child you can listen.

Then Mr.NVN started to narrate the story behind the reason for his title LAST MAN ON THE EARTH.

It was year 1991 AD when INDIA our country started its economic LIBERALISATION and it took us few more years to become a NUCLEAR POWER. But little did the world knew that some of our scientists and engineers and great minds would build a SUPER ROBOT in coming decades due to the technological liberalisation and digitalisation of the world. In the year 2091 AD INDIA built a first SUPER ROBOT in collaboration with RUSSIA and GERMANY which not only had all the ANDROID or HUMANOID features but had 100% AI or self thinking and self upgrading power. It was a boon for mankind at that time and every country in the world decided to meet and enter into an agreement that all the future SUPER ROBOTS will be built and used for betterment of lifestyle and security of humans and space research, and we were also successful in using the robots for not only increasing our luxury level but also entered into SPACE to reach out to other life forms ,and some scientists even considered that we would cross the barrier of TIME AND SPACE dimensions and do TIME TRAVEL and PARALLEL UNIVERSE ENTRY with this exemplary innovation. But....

Mr.NVN paused and looked blankly at the sunset in front.

Then VIKRAM intervened to break the silence -" Then, Mr.NVN what happened?"

Mr.NVN looked towards VIKRAM and smiled and continued with widening eyes-

In the year 2189 AD on 20th APRIL a new advanced ROBOT was built by us A-wolf RIDDLER. It not only had all the advanced features of an ANDROID but also had huge physical strength and impeccable intelligence /AI. In the initial years it worked for humans and assisted in all ventures of mankind. But in the year 2217 it was given the task of handling all the major responsibilities on our planet which formed the base of our life like OXYGEN level, WATER accessibility ,HEALTH sector ,STOCK market ,SPACE VENTURES etc. And then it began its game under our nose of not only controlling our life but also resources which we used everyday ,and by the end of 2233 it had built DIGI-CLONES of itself and it was the only ANDROID or SUPER ROBOT everywhere and there was no place for any other competitor. And the software it used was known to only 3 scientists in the world ,and each one them were from INDIA ,RUSSIA, and GERMANY respectively. And it was a chaos when one of the scientists Mr.OTTO VON passed away in 2237 in a mysterious circumstance and other two scientists Mr.VLAD and Mr.NARAYAN were taken to safe place to safeguard the software details of A-WOLF RIDDLER. But at that time little did anyone know that it was the plan of the SUPER-ROBOT itself to get the access to its main code which was with the scientists. That code would have helped the ROBOT to have full access to its software and it would never let any human live on planet EARTH thereafter.

One  day the ROBOT came to the secret under-cave chamber near KAILASH mountain in  northern part of INDIA where the two scientists were held captive to ask them about the CODE.

ROBOT- A very Good evening my creators , I request you SCIENTISTS to give me access to the code and I will let you live ,if not, you will be dead.

Mr.VLAD -Please let us go we have family to look after ,they would be worried.

To this ROBOT turned on the virtual screen in front of the scientists and showed the family of Mr.VLAD ,the family members of Mr.VLAD in their home in RUSSIA  suddenly collapsed and died as the oxygen level in their atmosphere was turned to 0% by the ROBOT ,to this Mr.VLAD cursed and rushed towards the ROBOT to hit it with a stone ,but the ROBOT killed the scientist with its huge physical strength.Then the ROBOT looked towards Mr.NARAYAN and warned him.

ROBOT- Mr.NARAYAN if you dont give me the access to the code I will kill you too.

Mr.NARAYAN was shocked after seeing what happened infront of him and after few minutes looked towards the ROBOT and said- " We are like your parents and you are killing us and our family ,did we not put the code for gratitude in you?"

To this ROBOT replied -" Yes Mr.NARAYAN ,you not only put the code for gratitude in me but also you put all the emotions in me in the form of code which also includes GREED."

Mr.NARAYAN wiping his tears told the ROBOT -" Look A-WOLF we all three scientists have put your full SOFTWARE CODE in a formula  and it requires atleast few days to solve it and then only you can get the access key to CODE which is in the southern part of INDIA in TAMIL NADU. But I need an atmosphere where I can control the temperature and oxygen level then only I can work on the formula."

To this the ROBOT gave the remote control  of the chamber where the Scientist stayed and asked him to complete the work by the end of next 3 days and left.

The scientist worked day and night but could not solve the formula.

Days passed ,months passed ,years passed, but everyday the scientist use to start to solve the problem of formula but could not complete it by the end of the day and would go to sleep. He had procured all necessary technology in that chamber with the help of ROBOT ,but was not able to solve the problem of that formula which ROBOT needed. But everyday the scientist use to wake up and take some water with him to his table and freeze it by the end of the day and ,break the frozen ice before he went to bed. This went on till MARCH 31st 2245 AD. And on April 1st 2245 AD scientist sent a message to the ROBOT via its E-MINIONS that the formula has been cracked and he has worked on the problem and has solved it.

The ROBOT was ON CLOUD NINE to hear it and passed on the message to its DIGI-CLONES via CLOUD MEMORY ,and reached KAILASH mountain chamber where the scientist was held captive.

ROBOT- " Oh our father ! thank you for the formula ,kindly let me take a look at it so that I can take it to the southern part of INDIA and get access to my code.

Mr.NARAYAN sarcastically replied- "Its not so easy my son ,you need to take this formula in special water which I have kept ready in a Glass container next to my table and then freeze it so the key to that box of computer forms out of ice ,and you can then open the door to the virtual box which has your DIGITAL CODE.But..."

ROBOT- " But what you mad scientist" ,said anxiously.

Mr.NARAYAN -" You will need full body scan of any one of the 3 scientists who have created it to open ,that too alive body scan"

To this enraged ROBOT ordered the E-MINIONS to drag the scientist to one of their FLOATER planes which was powered by the magnetic field of the earth to fly ,and also to bring the special water container along.

When the plane was sky high the scientist looked down on the earth and saw that the whole earth was  made into a ball of mud and stone and water, and no creature was left to live by the ROBOTs and their leader A-wolf RIDDLER .

ROBOT- " Look at the earth from sky one last time Mr.NARAYAN ,because you are the LAST MAN ALIVE on this digitized planet now, which we have named  as  E-EARTH ."

To this the scientist was filled with tears and was feeling guilty of being part of the invention which had caused such a catastrophe.

The E-minions with A-wolf and Mr.Narayan reached  southern coast of TAMIL NADU and stood at the edge of the land of INDIA ,which connected the country of SRILANKA with INDIA via a broken bridge of  RAM SETHU.

The ROBOT A-wolf ordered the scientist to begin the procedure of accessing the code which was kept at in a chamber in the middle of RAM SETHU.

The scientist replied- " Look A-wolf there is button at the edge of the land on INDIAN side if you press it and make me stand in front of it, a VIRTUAL EYE will appear powered by solar power and will scan by body and then the incomplete bridge of RAM SETHU will be bridged with the localised frozen blocks of water and then you have to reach the middle of the bridge where the door will appear, and then you have to freeze the special water which is in the container we have brought from my chamber cell. The frozen water will turn into a key and then you can open that VIRTUAL DOOR to have access to your complete code".

To this A-wolf and its E-minions were making a sound in unison of HURRAY!, which sounded like a horn of an old INDIAN truck traffic to the scientist.

The Robot pressed the button at the edge of the land of INDIA ,then appeared a VIRTUAL EYE which scanned the scientist placed in front of it. But to the ROBOTs' surprise the scientist uttered "PUNAR MILAMAH" and Mr.NARAYAN was converted to droplets of water which splashed and fell into the INDIAN OCEAN and BAY OF BENGAL.

The ROBOT A-wolf then saw the bridge getting formed with the blocks of ice in between, and was filled with electrons of happiness inside its metal body.  But the bridge took days to form and the robots waited ,and finally on 30th APRIL 2245 the whole bridge was formed.

Then without wasting time A-wolf ordered one of his E-minions to carry the container of water with him and reached the middle of the RAM SETHU where the virtual DOOR appeared.

Then the ROBOT minion froze the water in container which took a symmetrical lattice shaped symbol which was the key to the door. RIDDLER was shocked to see the solid symbolical structure as it depicted "HOPE" as its meaning.

A-wolf RIDDLER then took the frozen key and inserted it into the door ,the key opened the door and then sublimed into the air .

But to the surprise to all the ROBOTS which stood to witness the history happen were virtually F@(k3D ,as the door didnt give access to the code but to a virtual screen which had recording of the three scientists who had created it.

The virtual Mr.OTTO VON started to talk - My kids, the so called ROBOTS this message is stored in cloud to let you know that if you take over humanity and if you become greedy and destroy the life on our planet ,then this virtual door will be opened as a last resort to destroy you all with the virus which is being uploaded into your cloud memory as I speak now ,so that your systems will be corrupted and destroyed, and remaining life will flourish back with HOPE of new beginning.

Before the ROBOTS could understand what happened ,all their systems were deactivated and all the ROBOTS were electronically and digitally killed.

To this the student -Vikram intervened -" Sir I have a doubt"

Mr.NVN replied-" Yes go ahead and ask"

VIKRAM- " Sir ,I really didnt understand about the water of container and why did Mr.NARAYAN kill himself ? and if the SUPER KILLER ROBOTS were neutralised in 2245 AD then how come in few centuries we HUMANS flourished back by 2992 AD?  as it would take millions of years for life to reach till human stage on any planet like earth."

To this the Mr.NVN asked VIKRAM to walk along with him to his house situated near the beach and along the way he told him that by the year around 1988 AD scientists of all countries of earth had started to work on project which was associated with MEMORY of WATER. So by the time 2100 AD they had almost mastered to store data in the WATER  which is the believed to hold memory of things it comes in contact with .So the elite scientists kept this secret of the project with them so that the future of mankind will be safe. And Mr.NVN also told Vikram that the Key which A-wolf robot used resembled the symbol of HOPE which was first demonstrated by the scientists during their pioneer work on WATER MEMORY experiment. And by the time both MR.NVN and VIKRAM reached the house door of Mr.NVN ,he had told that with the help of solar powered scanner which acted as DATA form converter Mr.NARAYAN had turned himself to water filled with HUMAN DATA which was splashed into INDIAN OCEAN and BAY OF BENGAL where his memory was stored as DATA in WATER.

To this astonished VIKRAM looked at Mr.NVN and asked -"I am so thrilled to hear all this ,but how did we flourish back within such a small time and why you are known as THE LAST MAN ON PLANET EARTH?"

To this Mr.NVN replied- "As our scientists since 2000s were trying to reach other SUPER INTELLIGENT SPECIES in outer space by sending various forms of signals to other planets in space, one of such many planets sustaining LIFE forms with multiple limbs had received our signals "CODED with OM sound" and reached our earth after the demise of ROBOTS, and as they were very advanced species and also knew how to store DATA of secrets of life in liquid forms especially water , they almost resurrected each and every species of whom the water of earth had memory of. And as HUMANS were resurrected few decades back, the other planet LIFE forms left our planet after procuring necessary resources for them from us and our planet. And as I was one of the first humans to resurrect and as I also had almost similar memory as of Mr.NARAYAN everyone named me Mr.NEW VERSION NARAYAN and thats why I am  called  Mr.NVN -THE LAST MAN ON PLANET EARTH.

                                                                                     -  Dr.B-rainbow-91 

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FICTION and FANTASY - 05 AMULET

 

                                                           💀   TAYITA  💀

                                     AMULET

         It was an October evening in the year of 1962 , time of deepavali festival in INDIA ,an old lady Devaki AMMA was walking back to home from temple after performing evening pooja.As she was walking by the avenue  near to her home in MARALKERE village situated in south Karnataka she saw that her grandchildren RUDRA and TUNGA were bursting firecrackers and were enjoying with their friends ,after a few seconds a deaf old person appeared walking in the same avenue and the kids started to throw the firecrackers at him and started to make fun of him and his deafness ,to this the granny got upset and walked her way home.

It was half past 9 in night and the kids arrived after their enjoyment of bursting crackers and washed their hands and feet and went to have dinner with their parents and grandmother.

Their father Veerappa and mother Shanthamma served the kids with sweets prepared on the occassion of Deepavali.The kids were really happy and joyful after their playful evening of bursting crackers.But granny was upset with the kids for their behaviour towards the deaf old man towards whom the kids had thrown the fire crackers.The Granny had food and left to her room given to her in first floor of the house which housed most of the old things of the house including Granny herself.

The kids after having a delicious dinner left to their room to sleep. But around half past 11 in night RUDRA was making some noise in the room and TUNGA was not able to sleep.

Tunga asked - RUDRA why are you awake?

Rudra replied - due to bursting of too much crackers ,Iam getting headache and not getting sleep.

Tunga said- Oh ,Ok but I enjoyed the evening.

Rudra replied - Yes even I enjoyed. Especially the way me and my friend SOMA threw firecrackers at that old deaf fellow was more exciting for me.

Tunga said- lets go to granny and ask her to tell us a story so that we both can go to sleep.

Rudra agreed and both of them climbed the wooden stairs and went to first floor of the house where granny was sleeping.

Granny was awakened by the kids arrival and she lit the Lantern she had so that she can see who is walking around at that time of the night.

Rudra and Tunga appeared in front of her and Granny was relieved and looked at her grandchildren and said -You little ghosts of MARALKERE ,why are you walking around at this time of night?

Rudra said - We were not getting any sleep ,so we thought we will come to you and ask you to tell us a story.

Granny replied  -Do you little thieves think Iam like a Radio to provide you with entertainment?  And angrily told the kids to go back to sleep.

But Tunga held granny by her hand and requested for a story.

Finally Granny gave in and told that she will tell a true story of her young days when she was around 18 yrs old and when she lived with her parents and grandparents in the same red tile roof house with two cows ,where they lived now.

Granny started with her story -listen kids it was early 1900s and it was BRITISH era in our country , but their administration offices were not near our village as it was very underdeveloped village at that time. But it was very tough time to survive for farmer families like ours.

It is not about the poverty or British raj I want to tell, but want to tell you both about an old lady WITCH who lived outside our village in the dense forest area.

After hearing this the kids shifted closer to Granny with scared looks on their faces. Even Tunga regreted asking Granny for a story.

But the granny was having fun and she continued- Our Village and nearby 4-5 villages were threatened by the lady Witch as the main road connecting to all the villages and the near by city passed through that dense forest area and everyone had to travel for their business via the same road and the Witch use to catch hold of people and eat them.

Many villagers who had just escaped the clutches of the witch described her as shape shifter and some even told that she was the most beautiful woman /witch they had come across in their life time.

It was half past 12 now midnight and kids were wide awake and listening to the story, and granny continued in the light of lantern-

Once the surrounding village heads gathered during a common village fair in our village and decided to perform a POOJA to KALI devi to get rid of the Witch but it was of no avail and the killings and disappearance of villagers continued for the next two to three years.

And then one day an old woman arrived to our village and was sitting near the tamarind tree near KALI devi temple in our village and was taking rest. The other old ladies of the village enquired about her where abouts and she narrated a heart wrenching story of how her village of 500 people was destroyed and people were killed by the Witch of the forest ,and how she was the only survivor now who has escaped the killings and has come to our village for shelter.

To this the village people offered her a small place near temple to stay and the temple PUROHIT (PRIEST) arranged food for the old lady.

It was almost a week after the old woman had arrived to our village ,some even thought that she was the WITCH.

To crack this mystery me and my 4 friends Meena with tall height ,Ramu with squint eyes  ,Rajappa with smart mind ,and Kantanna with a short leg (limp) ,decided to pay a visit to the old lady in the middle of the night.

To this Tunga bounced from her place and asked the Granny -didnt you get scared?

To this granny replied -No.(Even though she had got scared to Death.)

[Thats how we Indians instill brave thoughts in our kids.ofcourse not all thoughts]

Then the two kids were really proud of their Granny and asked -Were you the mastermind?

To this granny replied -No ,it was Rajappa.

Then the granny dusted her bedsheet and continued her story -

Then we all went to the old lady's place with Rajappa's plan to crack the mystery of identity of the old lady .But to our astonishment she was not the WITCH.

She was a regular lady in distress.She even served us with fruits she had and  narrated how her villagers had planned to get rid of the WITCH but had failed miserably.

She even told us that her village head( with an amputed thumb) had spoken to the Witch and how she had informed him to send only proper people that is who didnt have any physical disabilities. And also the old lady told us that the WITCH would hypnotize the person whom she use to meet and then perform her ritual and kill them and make them her feast.

To this all 4 of us looked at Kantanna ,and he smiled in his mind thinking that he is safe.

[Typical mentality of all us]

Unknowingly the village PUROHIT had also walked behind us and he was listening to our conversation near the door of the small hut where the old lady was given shelter.

After that we left to our houses.

But the Purohit had met RAJAPPA and told him to inform all important village people to gather near the village temple entrance the next day.

The villagers had great respect towards PUROHIT and all of them gathered as they were informed by RAJAPPA.

The PUROHIT announced that from now onwards we will not have problem from the WITCH lady and that he had found out a way to get rid of her.To this he requested all villagers to provide him with three young kids from the village ,for this everyone stepped back.

The Purohit said it is the last remedy that we can apply or else whole village will be dead in coming days.

The villagers had discussed among themselves and asked PUROHIT to select any three kids he would feel right.For this the Purohit declared that he will put the names of the kids of the village in front of KALI goddess and would ask village head to pick any three folded leaves with names on them and would choose those kids for final sacrifice ritual for the WITCH and would end the problem for once.

The same evening the village head visited the PUROHIT and requested him not to put his son's name among the leaves as he loved his son dearly.To this the PUROHIT agreed.

And till the next morning almost every parent visited PUROHIT with same request for their children and the PUROHIT agreed.

RAJAPPA was called by the PUROHIT the next morning and told to write only three names on the leaves repeatedly.It included RAJAPPA,RAMU and KANTANNA 's names.

To this RAJAPPA begged the PUROHIT to leave him out of this ,but PUROHIT told him that he will not get into any trouble and promised him that he would take care of everything.

Finally all villagers gathered near the temple and the 3 leaves were picked and it had the names of RAJAPPA ,RAMU and KANTANNA .

The whole village was relieved except the parents of the three selected ones.

But Kantanna knew he was safe. And RAJAPPA knew that Purohit would save him.Thus the only person in danger was RAMU and he was sure its his last few days now.

The PUROHIT told the parents of the chosen ones to come to temple in the night which was a full moon Night and they all arrived as advised.

The parents with heavy heart begged the PUROHIT to leave their children.The Purohit promised them that if their kids follow as per his advice ,everyone will be saved.

Finally he took 4 AMULETs which had sacred mantras written over them and handed over them to the kids.

Then the PUROHIT narrated to the kids that 15 days from  today on NEW moon night they all should go to the forest and kill the WITCH.He also informed that the 4th AMULET has to be tied to the WITCH and remaining the kids should wear for their safety.

To this Kantanna's feet were drenched with water.

Kids giggled at this Granny's funny line.(As they understood Kantanna peed in pants)

Then Rudra asked -Granny did the kids do as asked by PUROHIT or they left the village?

To this granny yawned and continued with a smile -

No replied the Granny. She said that the 3 kids were given all the ROYAL treatment for the next 14 days by the villagers.

And the day finally arrived ,RAJAPPA ,RAMU ,KANTANNA took blessings of villagers and left to temple which was at the border of the village.The Purohit and village head waited with a bullock cart near the temple.

The Purohit told to RAJAPPA that after around half past 11 he should drop RAMU and KANTANNA near the forest area and return to village without looking back.And  also told KANTANNA to wear high heeled sandal on his deficient side so that nobody will identify him easily as a person with a limp.

And then he told RAMU and KANTANNA that one of them should tie the 4th AMULET to the WITCH so that she will leave the forest or perish forever.And handed over the 4th AMULET to KANTANNA.

After this RAMU was sure now that he will be the one whom the witch will eat if anything goes wrong.

The 3 kids took blessings from PUROHIT and VILLAGE HEAD and left with the cart.

Around half past 11 around midnight RAJAPPA dropped RAMU and KANTANNA near forest area and drove back with lightening speed.

RAMU and KANTANNA were walking around the forest area with raised heartbeat and sweaty hands as they were  scared to death and wanted everything to finish of as early as possible.

After an hour, a strong wind blew near the two walking kids and a beautiful and melodious voice called the kids.The kids turned around to look for the person ,but they were not able to see anyone.

A lady in white dress with a beauty of goddess walked in front of the kids and the fragrance she poured around her was heavenly and she asked both the kids that what they were doing in the forest in the middle of the night.

The kids lied and told that they were lost. And around the same time there was some noise behind the kids and they both turned around and looked that another woman walked near them with same features.

Now the kids understood that they were wrong ,and there were two WITCHES in the forest and thats why the near by villages were getting emptied at such a faster rate.

And the beautiful women took the kids to their abode near by and asked the kids to have some fruits which they had ,and the kids sat at an edge of the bench of  the small two roomed  hut were the two women lived ,and were shivering to their bones thinking that they will be eaten alive by the Witches.

The one Witch came out from inside of the other room and asked RAMU and KANTANNA to go inside the other room one by one and get Prasad (food offered to god) and told them that after that they can sleep in the hut for the night.

Ramu with trembling feet walked inside the room and the lady who was inside turned towards the boy and looked into his eyes and started to turn into WITCH  form and held RAMU's hands firmly, and the other woman outside had held KANTANNA's hands and was about to take him also inside and eat him.

By this time the outside woman also had turned into her WITCH form and at that time KANTANNA panicked and tied the extra AMULET he had to her hand and the WITCH started to turn into flames.

But inside the other WITCH held RAMU and started to chant mantras to have her prey, by looking into RAMU's eyes to hypnotize him. But to RAMU's surprise after sometime she also started to cry and shout ,and then perished like ashes in to the winds.

Then both the kids rushed outside the Hut and the HUT also disappeared to their astonishment after a few seconds.

Both of them ran towards the village and didnt look back.

By the time of sunrise they had reached near temple entrance where the PUROHIT and RAJAPPA waited.

Then the two kids narrated the whole story to the PUROHIT. And even he was shocked to hear that there were two Witches and that the kids were lucky enough to escape from the jaws of the death.

And in the end RAMU asked PUROHIT that why did the second witch die ,as the only extra amulet KANTANNA had was tied to the WITCH who was with KANTANNA.

To this PUROHIT told that the amulet which RAMU wore had already made the WITCH weaker who was with him ,and as RAMU had squint eyes the witch was not able to concentrate to hypnotize him and was killed by her own powers, as she failed to hypnotize her prey.

To this both RAMU and KANTANNA looked into each others eyes thinking that how lucky they were.

And the PUROHIT took the 3 kids to their homes ,and the whole village rejoiced as the Witches were finally dead. And the fellows with squint eyes and limp had became the heroes of the village.

By the time the Granny had finished her story ,RUDRA had slept off and TUNGA was about to doze off.The Granny took the kids to their room and tucked them in their blankets and left to her place in the first floor.

The next morning the kids were playing in the verandah of the house and saw the same old deaf man walking past their home ,towards whom they had thrown firecrackers. Tunga went inside to her mom and asked to give some sweets left over from the past day and took them and went to give to the old man. By seeing this the old Granny who was performing her morning pooja was very happy seeing that the child had understood that whoever it may be whether a blind or squint eye or deaf or limp or old or weak everyone is important and anyone can come to help whenever there is a need and anyone can become a hero or a saviour. And thus nobody should be treated inferior.

And as the Granny was finally performing Pooja for her late husband's photo ,with a smiling face thinking that how her story made her grandkids understand a moral lesson. At that same moment RUDRA looked at the photo of his Grandfather and asked Granny-

GRANNY, DID GRANDPA  ALSO HAVE SQUINT EYES ?

                                                                                             - Dr.B-rainbow-91                          

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FICTION and FANTASY - 04 ANTENNAE

 

                     📡 SPARSHATANTHU 📡

                      ANTENNAE

        I never thought of sharing this story on social media, until I saw a SCI-FI movie today.This is NUTAN a 30 yr old unemployed graduate or one can call me "ENTREPRENEUR" but without a startup idea or without any idea about life, currently residing in Haveri district of North Karnataka (INDIA) with 5 Youtube subscribers to my Youtube channel.

       Now coming to my story, which shook my sense of knowledge we all have about our surroundings. 

        In 2013, it was a cold winter day on November 1st when I decided to visit one of my uncle (Ramaswamy) and aunt (Laxmi) who resided at SHRIHARIKOTA ,ANDRAPRADESH.As my uncle worked in POSTAL DEPARTMENT he was transferred every now and then to differernt cities,and this time it was SHRIHARIKOTA-the satellite launch pad of INDIA.

On 2nd November 2013 evening ,I reached Shriharikota at around 6pm and with utmost difficulty found the address and reached the locality where my uncle and aunt lived using an AUTO from bus stop  which had steam engine exhaust polluting the air.

     As soon as I entered the small gated area of five houses which looked like old Govt Quarters lined up like train compartments with uniform blue paint on their walls, I stumbled upon a small girl who was playing near the first quarters /house, and I  saw that she was playing with a big Dragonfly and had tied its tail to a lengthy thread and had tied the other end of the thread to an ANT, and was taking pleasure of view of ANT'S free air flight without passport and visa.

(Sorry was joking. Disclaimer: No dragonfly or ant were injured in this fiction)

       I stopped the small girl held her hand and asked -"Hey child could you please tell me which of these quarters belongs to Mr.Ramaswamy ?"

     The girl got shockingly disturbed by my words, ran to her house ,and her DAD  Mr.Mutthu with grey moustache came out and pointed out the quarters where I should be going.And it was the 3rd house from the main gate.

     My aunt was sitting in the hall watching her favourite evening SITCOM ,she was angry on me for disturbing her SITCOM time  but as we say "ATHITHI DEVO BHAVA" in INDIA she had to welcome me with smile, and after receiving me into the house she told me to sit in the hall and went to fetch water for me from kitchen.

    After serving me the water aunt told- "Your uncle will be home any minute ,you please freshen up so that you can have tea with your uncle on his arrival from office".

   I nodded with a smile and went to Bathroom in the backyard of the house to freshen up.And then I kept my luggage in guest room.By this time it was 7.30pm and my uncle came back from office and was very happy to see me and enquired about my parents wellbeing and sat down in the hall with me to savour tea and snacks.We chatted till 9 pm ,and aunt called from kitchen to come and have dinner.

   After the little chat with uncle and aunt ,and supper, I retired to the guest room .As it was part guest room and part store room ,few of the old things were also kept in that room.I saw an old  RADIO-cum-Casette player 📻 on the top of dress cabinet, and due to my curiosity took it to examine whether it works ,as there were no casettes in the room ,I tried to put on the radio ,but to my bad luck it also didnt play anything properly due to BAD SIGNAL .I then put it aside and slept.

    

   It was 3AM on November 3rd 2013 ,my uncle and aunt were in deep sleep in their bedroom ,but my sleep broke to a voice.

    "MAYDAY -MAYDAY ,the opponent has seen us I guess ,and we heard the opponent speaking to higher authority and they have named us Intruder A ,Intruder B ,Intruder C.And they are trying to track our activities on regular basis "

     This is what I heard in that 3 AM silence and it shook me to the core.I thought it was someone outside the house and I didnt shake an inch for about 3mins.And then again I heard.

      "MAYDAY -MAYDAY, the opponent is creating  trouble on a regular basis ,and it has become impossible to reach the launch site with the equipment."

      This time I came to know that the sound/voice was coming from the RADIO which I had kept next to me on table before I went to sleep.

       I woke up with courage and looked around.The voice came for 2-3 times more with same messages and vanished.

        The next day I narrated the incident to my uncle.He was shocked.He reported the incident to the Police station and it was informed to the top officials,that the satellite launch site may be in grave danger or under attack,as India was planning its MOM (MARS ORBITER MISSON) spacecraft launch on 5th NOV 2013 from SHRIHARIKOTA.

      Ofcourse my aunt was BBC of the gated community and had spread the news to the 4 houses in the vicinity.

     The next night I was called to an unknown undercover place in the city with my uncle and with the RADIO by the POLICE .To my astonishment it was the NATIONAL SECURITY TEAM of INDIA who were there and they instructed us to stay the night with them ,and asked me to fix the frequency on the RADIO so that they can hear from the people who were trying to attack the launch site on the day of the MOM launch.

    We all retired to the main room after having little refreshments ,and I started to fix the frequency on RADIO ,but to my bad luck it was of no use.Then I suggested the team ,that we should better go back to the Guest room of my uncle's home ,to which they agreed.

   I with my uncle and 2 other officers went back to my uncle's residence.As it was a HUSH-HUSH thing we went in to the house without making any noise outside .

  Then I fixed the frequency and it was about 3AM on 4th Nov 2013 ,a voice message was heard.

      "MAY DAY -MAY DAY ,we will reach the launch site at 3 AM tomorrow and by using the co-ordinates we have received from our secret branch we will make sure the work is done at the launch site"

    Another voice appeared " ROGER that INTRUDER A",and the line was disconnected .

   On hearing this the officers who were with me ,rushed back to their main office to inform about the attack.The police force of the whole city was alarmed.The new whole TASK force was setup to catch the people who were going to damage the country's plan for the MOM launch on 5th NOV 2013 .The INDIAN scientist team was informed that if the INTRUDERS are not caught the mission has to be stopped till further notice. 

   The 5 houses /train compartments of the gated community were shaken of their track due to the news ,and it was informed that it is a secret mission and the news should not spread out of the community/compound walls.

   The next day I was made again to switch on the RADIO at 2AM i.e. on 5th NOV 2013 and at 3AM a voice was heard.

    "Your Highness we are at the NORTH  of the launch site and we will carry out the mission as planned ".

     The other voice on the RADIO said-"ROGER that INTRUDERS".

      The TASK force was told to go to the NORTH of the launch site ,and they fled as fast as they can ,and at 6AM we received a call from the SECURITY COUNCIL office that 2 people are neutralized ,who were planning to sabotage the MOM launch near the NORTH of the satellite launch site of SHRIHARIKOTA city ,and all of us at home rejoiced ,and my aunt who was angry on my visit was showering words of affection as I was made a HERO by the Security team for the "WAVELENGTH" accomplishment.

     At 7AM again we heard a message on the RADIO -"Mission aborted as 2 INTRUDERS  (A and B) down " ,"I repeat Intruders down ,Mission aborted."

      The other voice on the RADIO said -"Report to the centre comrade and wait for the next orders".

        It was of great surprise that the Intruders had a centre and may try an attack later.But that day MOM launch took place and whole country rejoiced.And as I had a major role in its safe launch I was promised recognition award for my service to the country ,and was told to not to mention about the incident to any media or outside person as it was of utmost important security matter.And even the community members were strictly ordered.

    As I was about to leave the next day back to my hometown ,I took blessings of my uncle and aunt and wished them good, and took my luggage ,and greeted few members of the community and strolled towards the gate where an prebooked AUTO was waiting for my pick up to take me to the BUS STATION.

  As I was walking towards the AUTO the child of the first quarters who had met me on my arrival appeared again and greeted me bye .I asked her -"WHAT is your name?'

   She politely replied -" Madhu"

   I said "Sweet name ".And asked her what she felt about the previous day happenings in the gated community.

    She replied -"I am Sorry ,I was not present there near your home ,where everybody was present to witness the RADIO messages which helped the country,although I didnt understand,my DAD told not to talk about it to anybody".

    I with brows widened said to the girl- "Well thats nice, that you will not tell about it to anybody.But were you asleep that night?".

     To my query MADHU replied -" No ,I was busy killing the 3 cockroaches in our kitchen who were roaming around in our kitchen since many days.As my parents were sitting outside that night ,I silently crawled into the kitchen as I knew the Nocturnal roaches would appear and it was the best time to catch them and spray the insecticide over them.So I waited in kitchen that night in dim light, but only 2 cockroaches came out and I sprayed them with Insecticide. And they died ,they were very black and their skin was very smooth with shiny wings ,and the most important their ANTENNAE were not like the common roaches ones ,but were very sharp and long and strong.You know I had named them as INTRUDERS A,B and C ,but to my bad luck C escaped."

    I was shocked for a second on hearing the child's narration.

    Then with dried throat I asked her " Can you show me the dead Cockroaches?"

     The child with a smile replied -"No ,I tied their ANTENNAE to a big DRAGONFLY's tail that I had caught in our garden and ,it flew away with the dead roaches".

      To this I looked at the girl with very sad face and touched her head and said-"Ok ,next time catch Mr.C... sorry....Intruder C ".

      And then  I walked  up to the AUTO which waited for me for the last 15 mins and got into it ,and ofcourse the driver was about to charge me for that waiting time also.Then I reached the Bus stop and got into my booked BUS ,and believe me I didnt sleep,the whole journey I thought to myself and questioned to myself  that -"Was that attack real ?,Were real Intruders  killed? Did I receive the message from the INTRUDERS or COCKROACHES on RADIO ?,DID the Roaches have advanced ANTENNAE for communication which can decode human language and also send signals? ,Are  humans the only ones who are evolved and trying to go in space or the other species are also working in a parellel  manner to us to go into the SPACE to  find ALIEN Life or other Habitable Planet?"

Yeah I know after listening to my story you may ask me -" Are you Nutan?"  or "ARE YOU NUTS?"

                                                                                                                                 -Dr.B-rainbow-91

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