raju thatha stories-1

Ramu was a lazy boy. He was idling his time with his friends.and not doing anything to lessen his mother's plight.She was doing  all odd jobs andh the meagre earnings she got , she used to run the house. As she was getting old, she was worried about her son's future and how he would live after her..
One day she called him and told that she cannot support him any longer and he has to learn to take care himself. She gave him 6 rotis and asked him to go to the nearby town and start looking for a job.
Ramu had to leave the house alongwith the food given by his mother for the town.He started walking to the town as there was no other mode of conveyance. He had to cross a dense forest for going to the town.after walking some distance, he was feeling hungry. He thought he would have some rotis and take some rest and start again as dusk has set in.
He started eating. Behind him there was a cave in which some demons were staying.One demon was awake keeping guard and the rest were sleeping iside the cave.
Ramu ate one roti and said loudly that he finishd one. The demon standing as guard heard the shout and got frightened. He thought that the boy was  a demon eater.The terrified  demon went inside and woke another and both the demons came near the entance. By the time Ramu ate the second roti and shouted " i consumed two". The two demons were totally frightened ran inside and brought the other four demons.Ramu ate al the six rotis in the meantime and shouted "i ate all six: The demons got extremely frigtened and all the demons fell at his feet and begged to have mercy on them and not to eat them. They would give him gold and other valuables if he could leave the place without eating them.
The boy was smart and told to to bring gold and values in bags and carry them them to his house.The demons were relieved and gladly put all the valuable items in six gunny bags and carried them to his house. After keeping in his house, they started running back towards the cave greatly relieved that they were spared by the demon eating boy.
After they reached halfway, they started slowing down. A fox saw these demons huffing and puffing. The fox asked the reason and the demons explained the whole thing. The fox laughed and told them that the boy was a simpleton and not a deomon eater and had cunningly took advantage their fear.
The fox promised to prove them that he was right. One demon could come alongwith him and he would show what the boy actually was. The demons were not convinced and thought the fox was trying to play some mischief. But the fox was persistent and offered to tie himself to the body of the demon so that he would be tied and he could notrun away in the event something happened.
Both the fox and the demon stated back towards Ramu's house.Ramu was sitting on the terrace enjoying himself. He saw the fox and the demon coming towards his house. He could guess that the fox was upto some mischief and could mean trouble for him.
He ran down and picked a heavy stick. He stared running with the stick towards the fox and the demon shouting "hey stupid fox, i told you to bring 6 demons for dinner and you brught only one. I am going to eat both you."
On hearing this, the demon thought he had been deceived by the fox and started  running     back dragging the fox alongwith him . After reaching the forest alogwith other demons , he removed the rope and the fox was almost dead. The demons did not dare to enter the village again.
The gold and other valuables were enough for ramu and his mother to live comfortably.

Seenu -the taylor

Seenu was a very good tailor. Most of the villagers used to get their dresses stitched by him and he was always busy.The diwali was fast approaching and he had to stitch clothes continuously so that he could deliver them before diwali. He continued stiching well into the late night. His wife brought his dinner to the shop as he could not find time to go to his house.



The plate was kept on the table. Seenu washed his hands and started to have his dinner. Mosquitoes were hovering around the food and he just swatted at them killing 7/8mosquitoes. His wife came to take back the plates and saw 7/8 mosquitoes lying around the plate dead.




Next day morning she told her neighbour that her husband killed 8 mosquitoes wth one swat. The neighbour told her friends and gradually the news spread that the taylor killed nine men with one blow.The news reached the king also.




The king was hearing the news from his spies that the neighbouring country was planning to attack them. Even though he had a good army , they did not have a good general to lead them. He thought that Seenu ,the taylor, would be the ideal man as he killed nine men with one stroke.He immediately sent for seenu and asked him to lead the army.Seenu was only good at tailoring and had no knowledge of battle field and was extremely worried.But he had to obey the king's orders.




The neighbour's army had reached close to the border and the taylor had to go to the battle ground.He was given a very strong horse and the taylor did not know how to ride a horse.His wife asked him to mount on the horse and tied him to the horse leaving only his hands free. The horse started running very fast and the taylor was extremely frightented and started shouting. On hearing his shrieks, the horse ran still faster towards the enemy's army. The taylor's army was left behind.




When the horse was running , the totally frightened tried to hold on the trees by clutching at them. The trees got uprooted and the taylor carried the trees alongwith him and shouting at very pitch of his voice.




The enemy's army alreay heard about the reputation of seenu as the man who killed nine men with one stroke.When they saw seenu fast approaching them alone with two tress in his hands , they thought their end was very near and this would wipe their army single handedly.




They started retreating fast and ran back from their battle field leaving all their armoury spears etc .The horse in which seenu was riding got tired and slowly halted. seenu managed to untie the ropes and got down from the horse. By the time, his army reached the battle field and saw that seenu had single handedly conquered the enemy. they were all overjoyed




and called seenu the strongest general and they took him back on their shoulders praising his valour.




The king was extremely pleased with seenu and gifts him house, land and gold befitting a victorious general. As seenu's fame spread wide and far nobody tried to attck his country and everybody lived peacefully.