Friendship between Nandu and Vedant
A small town surrounded by hills and green forests, simple and hard-working people leading a simple life. The Sun, just waking up and spilling its rays over the body of velvety green earth, pricking every part and hole in the earth, is giving warmth to the little seed so that it gets up and sees the beautiful world.
Mom, why is Gauri restless today? Why is he coming down, is there something wrong with him? asks Vedant anxiously to the Mother of him Meera of him. Yes, my son, she is in pain today, she is going to give birth to a calf at any moment. Meera said.
What? A calf is coming to our house. Yes! I’m going to play with him. He runs around the town beating a toy drum with great happiness. He sits near the cattle barn waiting for the baby to be born, it was night and getting dark and there was still no sign of a baby. He falls asleep on the shell in the cattle barn.
Meera carefully takes him in her arms and places him on her bed, covers a sheet and leaves the room; even she is waiting for Gauri to give birth to a baby.
It was late at night when Meera hears Gauri’s bellowing; she immediately wakes up her husband Raja.
Wake up; I think Gauri has labor pains we must get to her Meera wake up her husband Raja of her.
Yes, come on, says Raja. They both run to the cattle barn.
Hears! A cute calf looks at how he is trying to stand on his own two feet. He is so adorable that Meera screams with joy. She gives some cattle feed to Gauri and puts a hand on the little calf very carefully, he is so sweet.
OK, Meera let’s go to sleep now, I have to get up early to go to town, says Raja.
Meera reluctantly leaves the shed.
Wake up Vedant, a calf has been born, wake up now.
Meera calls Vedant, it’s early 6 o’clock, but Vedant wants to sleep longer.
Ow mom! Let me sleep a while longer, Vedant pleads with her mother.
Look, it’s a newborn calf that you were waiting for, get out of bed and look how cute it is.
Vedant jumps out of bed running towards the stable. What a nice scene, Gauri is feeding her little clutch. Both Meera and Vedant stood still and enjoyed the activity of the little calf.
So Vedant what you have to do is name it, it is your duty now.
OK, surely I will mom, he’s going to be my best friend, I’ll take care of him, says Vedant enthusiastically.
Vedant prepares to go to school; he is excited to tell all of his friends about the calf.
He returns home early that day, throws his school bag against the door, and runs to the barn to play with his new friend Nandu. Happy day passes Nandu is growing and his friendship is also getting stronger. Vedants avoids his school friends and spends more time with Nandu.
One day Vedant’s parents came back from the farm. His father washed her hands and legs and called for Vedant. “Vedant, will you go to the next town tomorrow?” asks his father.
“Yes, but what is the reason?”
“Oh! Do you remember Mr. Naidu? He owes money, I’m supposed to pay him 5000 which I took for agricultural purposes. He had come to me at the farm and asked me for money.
Vedant asked “father, where will you get such a large amount?”
His father replies, “Yes, we don’t have such a large amount, that’s why I asked you to take our Gauri to his house.”
It was shocking words for Vedant, he asked, are you going to sell Gauri?
Father replies, Mr. Naidu, a very cruel person. He will throw away all the utensils in the house if he has not received his amount in the instance and will abuse us.
There are tears in the vedant’s eyes, he asks, how will a child live without his mother? If you gift our Gauri to Mr. Naidu, how will Nandu survive? How do you not understand this that he talks more? He immediately runs to the kitchen and informs the mother of him, mom, dad is going to sell our Gauri. The mother is aware of everything, the fact that she tries to convince him.
The next morning, Vedant takes Gauri to the next village. When he unlocks Gauri, Nandu cries loudly, this creates pain in Vedant’s heart.
He starts crying. He kept looking helplessly at Nandu, but he couldn’t do anything. Dads don’t sell Gauri; ask Mr. Naidu to get rid of all our belongings. I won’t let Gauri go like this. He bursts into tears. Even Father doesn’t wish to sell her adorable Gauri, but he can’t do anything to save her.
Vedant’s father hardens his heart and takes Gauri to Mr. Naidu, Nandu cries loudly and Vedant too.
Three days passed, Vedant did not wish to eat his food. He just keeps crying. Nandu also does not eat his food.
One day Vedant’s friends come running to him and tell him that there is an animal fair in our town, we are all going to take our cattle and decorate it. Vedant jumps for joy and replies: Even I am going to take my Nandu to the fair.
Vedant gradually forgets about Gauri, now he was busy in Nandu. He was more intent on the accessories that he would need to decorate Nandu. He opens his piggy bank and counts the amount, but does not reach the money.
Meanwhile, his mother returns from the farm. She asks her mom: “Can you lend me some money?”
What is the need for money, he asked his mother. She narrates the whole story and asks for some money that she was missing.
“Okay, I’ll lend you some,” her mother replies.
Vedant was very happy; He went to the market with his friends to buy the accessories he needed for Nandu to decorate.
It was a day when Vedant and Nandu were enjoying the fair; they had a great time and returned home late at night. Mom was at the door waiting for them to arrive and she could see that they both returned happy, she knew they were very happy.
After two days, Raghu, Vedant’s father’s friend, came to his house and asked for the money that Vedant’s father had given him.
Vedant’s father was not ready to pay him back immediately, so Raghu asked to sell Nandu to him, but his father enthusiastically said NO.
Raghu was very angry, he tried to take Nandu with him by force, but Nandu did not move from that place. He would cry quite hard and call Vedant to help him.
This time Vedant was very angry as he could not tolerate Raghu’s action. His mother takes his hand and pulls him inside the house and after some time, Vedant comes out with a stick and showers on Raghu, his mother also joins him.
For Raghu it was like unexpected and he tries to escape from being hit, he escapes and never comes back.
Vedant and Nandu return to their home.