Pahalwan vs Brainwan - Story for cheering up the children

From Karthik Venkateswaran to his daughter Kavya

Narration by Komacha (Santhanam, Grand Father)

As every other parents love their children, Karthik is no exception. Karthik, our beloved Son-in-Law uses a variety of creative ways of keeping both Kashyap (son -7+ years) and the little Kavya (daughter- 3+ years) to change their moods and bring humour among them.  

Telling stories of his own imagination is one of his techniques he is good at in bringing  cheer on their faces. Here, I am sharing one such story fabricated and narrated by him to make Kavya who was looking dull as her mother (Vasudha) was not seen around after she woke up. On a Saturday, she had accompanied Kashyap for his Football match held a little away from their home.  Karthik was doing baby-sitting that day. In Bangalore traffic which is notorious mainly due to construction work such as creating a new fly over or under sub-way or relaying of roads etc., to go and return from the nearest neighbourhood would mean three hours. Karthik knows he has to manage her for such a long time. 

Rhydham is a school friend of Kavya. He has a tendency to tease and hurt his class mates. May be a pretty naughty boy without having any intention to hurt. Kavya was also his victim on a couple of occasions.

Using one such incident happened between Kavya and Rhydham, Karthik tried to fabricate his own story and cheer up Kavya that  day as she was demanding her mother to come and give her milk.

The story went  somewhat like this.

Karthik asks Kavya about the type of tantrums Rhydham used to do on her. She answered saying that Rhydham used to tease her and even hit her  at times.

So, Karthik told her to learn Karate by gesticulating some actions used in Karate. She sat up and listened to the narration of her father and she became a bit quieter. Still, she was reminding her father as to when her mother would come back home.

Ignoring her plea, Karthik continued his fabricated story. He told Kavya, if  you learn Karate then if Rhydham hits her, she can use Karate technique and hit him back. Smile lit on her face. So, in an imaginary way, Karthik took her to a Karate Master and trained her in Karate.

Another day, when Rhydham tried to taunt her in his usual way, she used karate technique and hit him harder and injured his nose. In the evening, after returning home, Kavya explained her action on Rhydham to her father. When Karthik was told so, Kavya threw a beaming smile.

Slowly, he was trying to move her away from her thought of demanding her mother.

Next day, on hearing from his son Rhydham, it appears his father demanded a meeting with Kavya’s father Karthik to sort out the problems between Kavya and Rhydham. Kavya warned her father that Rhydham’s father was a wrestler(Pahalwan) with huge muscles in his hands and legs and he will harm you too.

Karthik too agreed  to meet Rhydham’s father and so both of them met in a nearby Park. Rhydham’s father was seen obviously disturbed about the bashing his son got from Kavya and looked like punching a hook on Karthik’s face. On seeing him, Karthik told in his own humorous way that both were heavy weight and have muscles except in wrong places. He said that while Rhydham’s father as a renowned wrestler had his muscles in his hands and legs, he (Karthik) was having it in his belly area of his body gently caressing his  ever growing stomach. So, he challenged him for a dance competition instead of wrestling.  Rhydham’s father could not control his smile and laughed heartily. That way they met with different strategies and became closer. Karthik Sir, you have won. I am happy that Kavya is a friend of Rhydham and he will not misbehave with her in future.

When Karthik tried to imitate the dance he would have done in front of Rhydham’s father and told her that the moral of the story was that she should her brain more effectively when in crisis  and win over against anyone or any situation.  Kavya laughed innocently and hug her father forgetting all about her dull mood in the beginning and just slept off on the lap of her father.

As heard and narrated by Komacha (Santhanam). I enjoyed the narration and hope you too would enjoy.

Komacha (Santhanam)

17 Feb 2019