let's go - joysree das
TRANSCRIPT
In a tiny village by a forest, lived four brothers –
Jambhal, Twasta, Rishi and Sunny.
Jambhal was the eldest, who loved to wander in
the forest, digging and delving, collecting roots,
flowers, leaves, fruits and seeds.
Twasta was always busy making toys and carts
for himself and his brothers and he had a favourite
wooden scooter with which he was seen running
around in the morning and evening.
The younger brothers Rishi and Sunny were
always following one or the other of their older
brothers. So they were always happy together.
Deep inside the forest in a clearing lived an old
woman who was known as Kalindi Mayee. All the
villagers were scared of her and avoided her,
because they thought that she practised black
magic. But Jambhal had often met her in the forest
and was quite friendly with her. One day Jambhal
went to her cottage and presented her a silver
comb which he had found while digging under a
mossy and old mango tree in the forest. Kalindi
Mayee was so happy with the gift that in return she
whispered something in Jambhal’s ear. Jambhal was
also very pleased and ran away home.
Next morning Jambhal with his brothers went
into the forest and stood on a high mound of earth.
“I have something to show you!” he said. “What is
it?” asked Twasta. “Is it some Magic?” asked Rishi.
Sunny stood very quiet and still watching his
brothers. “You will soon see.” said Jambhal.He
closed his fists into two tight balls and whispered,
“Fly Butterfly Fly,
Come Down Spaceship,
From the Sky! ”
All of a sudden a big blue and black butterfly
fluttered away in front of the four brothers and a
soft breeze began to blow, and they heard a
humming sound growing louder and louder. Soon
they saw a big, round, ball before them. It had a
small door like opening on its front face. Before
thinking twice the brothers climbed into it and
could feel that the ball was soaring upwards very
fast. Soon their spaceship hit hard ground with a
jolt. The brothers came out holding one another’s
hand. What did they see? They saw a vast green
field spread like a carpet on a piece of the blue sky.
The brothers felt neither hungry nor thirsty but
went on playing. All the brothers had brought their
wooden scooters. Twasta with his own scooter,
which was the biggest and strongest, was running
around on the field of the sky. He felt much lighter
He felt much lighter than on earth.
The other three were busy playing “Catch me if
you can.” It was the youngest Sunny who was made
to chase his older brothers who were too fast for
him to catch them. Still he did not give up, till the
end of the game, after which they cart wheeled on
the soft green grass. They went on playing, racing,
jumping and skipping till Jambhal broke a tooth
when he fell down and Rishi hurt his left eye.
Twasta started howling, while Jambhal gave out a
loud cry of pain before spitting out his broken truth.
Rishi was giving Sunny a piggy ride and ran away to
the other side of the field and the two older
brothers were left to comfort one another.
“Boys run away home!” shouted the couple
who had a cottage at the far end of the field in the
sky. They were the caretakers of the sky and kept
everything neat and tidy for the Sun, the Moon and
the Stars. “It is time we went back to earth” said
Twasta to Jambhal. Jambhal tried to remember
something and then gave out a loud cry- “Yee, Yeee,
Yee!” “What’s wrong?” Asked Twasta deeply
concerned. “I have forgotten the mantra to call the
space ship” howled Jambhal.
Rishi and Sunny were still playing. The caretaker
woman was looking at them. The two older
brothers stared into each other’s eyes and could
feel a cold fear slowly creeping up their heart and
choke their throat with sad silent cries. Sunny and
Rishi were blissfully ignorant of the scrape that
Jambhal had landed them into. But Sunny was
feeling tired and sleepy by now and Rishi made him
lie on his scooter which he moved very slowly.
The caretaker woman who was watching them
felt pity for Sunny and called him and Rishi into her
hut. She gave them some momos which she had
cooked that evening and some pieces of porkpie.
After they had polished off their plates Sunny fell
asleep resting his head on his brothers lap while
Rishi sat and wondered when would Jambhal call
them and they would all go back home to earth
before nightfall.