Of stories and tales

Junior has been given a holiday assignment in school – to write a small story of their own. Ever since he could understand, he has been fascinated by Ganesha, especially the story of his birth. He has literally read and re-read that Amar Chitra katha book into shreds. I believe his own devotion level love for his mother stems from the story!! When he talked about the assignment, I gave him suggestions to come up with a mokka story about dinosaurs or the “megabaratha” play of us. He had already made up his mind on the topic. They were to write a 2-page story in their 3 lined notebook. Junior sat and wrote an 8 pager in under half hour and showed it to us for proof correction. Except for few spellings, we didn’t touch the story at all. I’ve posted the same verbatim as presented by Junior.  Possibly the one post am super proud of amongst the 1296 posted in this space 😊 😊 😊

Ganesha’s birth – Authored by Junior

When Parvati was going to bath she had told nandi to not let any of shiva gana’s come in. Nandi started to guard the door. When shiva was walking towards the door nandi was in doubt. Then shiva went in. Parvati was so furious that nandi did let shiva in. She thought that any of her gana’s wont work. So she made one boy with her turmeric powder. then Parvati blessed boy and the boy came to life. Parvati named him as ganesh. She gave him a stick. Now she said Ganesh you must guard the door. Ganesh did as what his mother has been told. When shiva was walking towards the door Ganesh said stop. My mother has told me that I should not let anyone in. as he spoke Shiva was so angry that he cut of his head. when the boy screamed aaah Parvati came out. Then Shiva realized that the boy was Parvati’s son. Shiva felt like the boy was his son too. Parvati told her husband in anger. Shiva running in forest he saw a baby elephant. Shiva threw his trishul at the baby elephant and brought the head back to his home and placed it on the boy. Ganesh came to life as was in a deep sleep waken up. From now he will be worshipped as God. Thus ended the story of Ganesha’s birth. The end. (Small Ganapathi’s picture).