abu & rabad

Abu is a big fan of stories and story books. Harry Potter (he knows the names of all 7 books), Dinosaurs (he can recognize more dinosaurs from their photos than I can), Indian Mythology (Ram, Sita, Krishna, and now the dash-avatar). In fact, as part of bedtime reading over the last year or so, meetu and I have read the entire “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” (without skipping anything) to him, and now we are no Chapter 5 of “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”.

Recently he has gotten interested in writing his stories. He has a little four-line notebook in which he writes stories, one page at a time. The first story, is called “Hanuman’s story”, and spans seven pages. He has just finished his second story, “Sita’s story”, which I haven’t read yet. 

He sits by himself and writes the story. Whenever he gets stuck on the spelling of some word, he asks meetu or me, and we help out. But sometimes he thinks he knows the spelling and goes ahead without asking us. Those are left as they are in the text below, as an exercise for the motivated reader to figure out what Abu was trying to say.

Other than help with spellings, everything else is by Abu. All the sentence constructions and punctuation are his. He understands a little about periods (“full stop”) at the end of a sentence, but not entirely as you can see below. As you will see, he hasn’t yet heard of the comma.

Anyway, on to the story:

Ram and Sita both were married to each other. Then Ravan kidnapped Sita. Then Ram got his little brother Laxman to help him to find

Sita. They went looking for Sugreev to help find Sita. Instead they found Hanuman, he took Ram and Laxman on his shoulders and he took them to Sugreev.

Sugreev said will you help me kill Bali. Ram said I will if you help me find Sita yes I will help you find Sita so Ram killed Bali and they went to find

Sita. They went and went and they made a brij and they went across it they went and they killed Ravan and they came home. Then Ram too Saita home.

Then Sita gave Hanuman a pearl necklace to sea thank you. He broke the pearls. Sita asked why are you breaking the pearls because I have to see Ram and Sita’s photo in all the

gift I get. Sita said if there is no photo of Ram & Sita in your chest will you break your chest so he opened his chest and there was Ram & Sita’s photo in it so he laft his hand and. Holes

had vanished and every body was happy.

the end