A charmer

One fine afternoon, I was napping, as usual. Suddnely!

Hit it. Hit it! Kill. Kill. There! There! Go. Go. Thud. Thud. Thump. Cling. Cling. Thud! Followed by a silence. Then,  ”I think it is gone”…

This woke me up. I did not know what was happening. In that drowsy state I thought I was in some sort of a war zone. But my mom told me that our neighbour caught sight of a poor serpent and that they were behind that, trying to kill it! People know that snakes don’t harm them unless they do, but still they get terrified at the sight of a snake and, immediately want to kill it.  Somehow the snake hid in a very comfortable place, away from its killers. Now that they know a snake is there in their backyard, they wanted to make sure that it is either killed or driven away. So, they decided to call a snake charmer and catch it.

I was intrigued. Can he catch it? Like we see in the movies? It was the first time I was going to see a snake charmer. I waited but unfortunately couldn’t see it since I had to go to my friend’s place. My dad like the rest who gathered there (there was a huge crowd, seriously) had taken the video of it.

This is what happened. This is what I saw. This guy comes in, enthusiastically. He had already become a hero – all were expecting him to catch the snake. He enquired my neighbour and they pointed to the location where they saw it last. He moved here and there. Made some skillful moves and pointed to a direction and said don’t go there the snake might be there. He placed something (the thing wasn’t clear in the video and dad also doesn’t know what it was) there. And after sometime, the snake came from exactly opposite direction! The snake charmer said, “See, didn’t I tell you it is there?”, pointing to the snake. (Dude everyone knows the snake is there, and that is the reason you are here). But nobody said a word. My neighbour wanted the snake and the others wanted some entertainment for that evening. Both got what they wanted, they were happy. He then caught the snake tactfully, skillfully, removed the poison and was posing for the photos. Lots of clicks. A new hero was born there.

The snake charmer absolutely charmed the crowd, I’m not sure of the snake. Hope he doesn’t kill it.

Live and let live (be it an animal or a human being)

Thanks.

Thanks!

Thanks to…

SivaAnna, Vek, Ramji, NivinM, Vivin, Aaru, Sayee, Rajgopal, Suruchi, Abillash, Harish, JaiShankar,  Aswathi, Bharu, AlVinod,  Jai(Ho), Subbu, MSK, Vikas, Soma, GayathriAkka, Mappi,  Sukanya, John, PinkyChechi, Dharani, GuruAnna, VijuEta, Jeydev, Maku, C, Abhishek, Jagan, Sunny, Sujatha, MenonSir, Gaurango, Jithu, Venkitesh, Anjana, DeepaChechi, Pooja, Nandita, Sarang, SaravanaAnna, VickyAnna, Vicky, Chicken, Janaki, Karthik, VivekSudan, Taunkji, Pradeepo, BalBalaji, Karthi, AswathEtta, AjithEtta, SwapnaChechi, Dhanya, Meera, Dhrishya, Coundz, SharadaChechi, VigneshSuryah, Shimranath, Dileep, Vaishak, Gokul, Thiru, TheMaester, Kishore, Ashwin, ArunSundar, Chakki, KC, Arjun, Mapla, HariEtan, Sudeep, Senthur, Tamil, Kalro, SltRohit.

Thank you so much guys, for your wishes! This is the first time so many people have wished me on my birthday. Till now only a few of my friends wished me but this time…! Wow! Thank you so much!!!  Never expected it!

Thanks for all the scraps, SMSs, and calls. You made it a happy day!

Thank you guys. Once again.

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