Pigeon Pea Plant (Gahath Ki Dali): A Garhwali Folktale for Managers

Garhwali Folktales, Fables, Traditional stories for Managers,/executives, boss, supervisors or Stories for management from Garhwal part- 11  

                         Translation by: Bhishma Kukreti

                   There was farmer in a village. He had second wife because his first wife died early. The famer had a five year old boy from his first wife. His present wife used to envy by that boy. His second wife gave ultimatum to her husband that if he do not burry his son into plough line in the field (gap or small canal happens due to plough) she would not live with him. As happened always, he was weak before his second wife. He agreed to bury his son in the field while plough.

      One day, the farmer was plough in an upper contour filed and his son was playing on lower field. The son saw pigeon pea plants. He started fencing those pigeon pea plants.  The famer took plough to through on his son for killing the son. The farmer was ready to throw plough on his son. At the same time, his son called him,” Father! These pigeon pea plants are already grown up there. Don’t uproot them.  These are already grown plants and we don’t know whether new plants would come or not from sowing the pigeon pea seeds.”

 The farmer got shock by precious words from his five year old boy.

He came home and told in straight words to his wife, “Listen cruel woman!  I shall not obey you.  I will not kill my already grown boy. Nobody knows you would give birth to child or not. For unseen future, I would never spoil my assured present.”

 **This folk story for Manager is taken from Garhwali Gadya Parampara by Dr Anil Dabral, page 165

Copyright @ Bhishma Kukreti  4/12/2013 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

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