6 what happened to the reptles

PRESENTED BY :Mr. PANKAJ S. SANGAVE (T.G.T. English)
J.N.V. Khordha

PANKAJ S SANGAVE(TGT ENGLISH) JNV KHURDA

EMAIL-pankajsangave@gmail.com

Before we read:There is huge diversity in India in caste, creed,
colour, religion and language of the people .
Sometimes even a minor incident becomes
sufficient to provoke the feelings of the people
which may result into tense situations and even
riots.
In the present lesson, all the reptiles like
crocodiles, tortoises, lizards and snakes live in the
forest of the village, Pambupatti.


Everything was going on smoothly then who and
what made the tortoises, snakes and lizards
leave the forest forever?
What happens to the forest in the absence of
tortoises, snakes and lizards?

Could they ever come back to the forest?
Let’s learn the lesson ’What Happened to the
Reptiles’ to find out the answers of these
questions.


What Happened to the Reptiles
- ZA I WHITAKER



About the Writer :Zai Whitaker (Zahida Futehali) was
born in 1954 in Mumbai,
Maharashtra, did her schooling
and college education there, and
then moved to Chennai where she
worked at the Chennai Snake Park
and Crocodile Bank for many
years. Zai's interests are natural
history, writing, and teaching. Her
books Andaman’s Boy and Kali and
the Rat Snake have been
published by Tulika.

- Zai Whitaker


Once a religious riot broke out in the village
where Prem lived. Somehow saving his life
he comes to a village, Pambupatti miles away
from his own.
 Now, Pambupatti is a village where many
types of people live together harmoniously.

Prem runs away from his village.

 Here he is well-taken care of by an old man
who tells Prem a story of reptiles like
crocodiles, tortoises, snakes and lizards who
had been in his village forest a long, long ago.

An old man takes care of Prem.


There would be a monthly meeting of all the reptiles
of the forest. Makara, a giant crocodile was the
president of the meetings.

Makara presiding over the meeting.


 One day, he wrote a letter to the tortoises
ordering them not to attend the meeting
and leave the forest forever.
 Poor tortoises had to leave the forest , but
in their absence the forest started smelling
very bad because tortoises ate up rotten
fruit and rotten animals in the river and
they were not there.
 Next was the turn of the snakes who too
were ordered to leave the forest quickly.
Now in their absence rats and frogs grew
up in so large numbers that crocodiles
became helpless at their trouble. Rats and
frogs even ate up the eggs and the young
ones of the crocodiles.

Tortoises receive Makara’s letter.

Snakes too receive Makara’s letter.

 After the snakes now it was the turn of
the lizards who too were driven away
mercilessly out of the forest.
 As the lizards were not there in the
forest insects grew up in millions
creating another big problem to the
crocodiles.

Lizards go away from the forest.

 Finally, all the crocodiles even Makara
understands the importance of the
gone animals. Quickly messages are
sent to call them back.


 Presently all the gone animals come
back to the forest .
 Within just two months the gone
glory of the forest comes back and
everything becomes normal as it was
earlier.
 Thus, having heard the story , the
hesitant Prem decides to take the
story back to his village as he learns
the moral of the story that everyone
has their own equally important role
to play in the society and each of us
has a place in this strange funny world
of ours.

All the animals come back to the
forest after receiving messages.


PARAPHRASE OF THE LESSON
The writer here correlates the importance of religious
harmony citing the example of the reptiles. She uses the
analogy to stress the importance of all the factors in the
social strata. The existence of a class is unimaginable in the
absence of the other/s as all the classes are equally
important for the smooth functioning of the society. Even
the king may require the help of a man with the ‘minutest’
importance from his point of view in the ‘Hour of Need’. So
everybody is equally important. The way no body parts of
ours are useless, all are equally important for the smooth
functioning of our body; all the human beings moreover all
the living beings including trees and even micro organisms
are important for the smooth functioning from the social,
religious, physical, economical point of view.


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