Choli: A Garhwali Folktale for Winning Managers

Garhwali Folk Tales, Fables, Traditional stories, Community Narratives for Effective Managers, Effective executives, Effective Boss, Effective Supervisors or Stories for Effective management, management Lesson from Garhwali Folk Literature from Garhwal, part- 37   

       Collected and edited by: Bhishma Kukreti (Management Training Expert)

            There was a village. The water source was far from the village. The villagers had to take water by vessel on their head.  The villagers used to take their cattle to water source.

                 There was a widow in the village. She had two daughters. Both were different from each others. The widow had a pair of bulls. Turn by turn the daughter used to go to water source by taking bulls to water source.

        It was dry summer. Their mother was cooking sweet rice pudding (Kheer). That day was the turn of Choli to take bulls for water source. Choli was in hurry to take Kheer. She wanted to eat Kheer earlier than anybody else.

    Choli took the bulls towards water source. However, her eagerness to eat Kheer compelled her to take a sinful decision.  

  On the half way, she urinated on the bull’s feet and came back to cattle shed without taking Bulls to water source. Her mother saw that bull feet were wet.

 Choli took Kheer before her sister.

 Due to summer and thirst, by evening, both the bulls died. Bulls cursed Choli.

In next life, Choli took birth as a bird called Choli or Papiha (sparrow hawk). The sparrow hawk does not take water from land but have to depend on rain and always she cries “sarga dida pani de , pani de or O heaven give me water , give me water).

Copyright @ Bhishma Kukreti 22/12/2013 for review and interpretation

Garhwali Folktales, Fables, Traditional stories for Managers,/executives, boss, supervisors or Stories for management from Garhwal to be continued…

                  References

1-Bhishma Kukreti, 1984, Garhwal Ki Lok Kathayen, Binsar Prakashan, Lodhi Colony, Delhi 110003,  

2- Bhishma Kukreti 2003, Salan Biten Garhwali Lok Kathayen, Rant Raibar, Dehradun

3- Bhishma Kukreti, Garhwali Lok Kathaon ma Prabandh Vigyan ka Tantu , Chitthi Patri’s Lok Kathayen Visheshank  , Dehradun

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