Vrinda Kanakabandi

Children Stories Comedy Fantasy

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Vrinda Kanakabandi

Children Stories Comedy Fantasy

GREEDY SEENA & THE NEEDY ALIEN

GREEDY SEENA & THE NEEDY ALIEN

7 mins
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Seenappa Shetty a middle aged man also known as Seena lived in Ankihalli, a remote village in the southern part of Karnataka. He lived in a big bungalow encompassed by lush green coffee estate on one side, ginger, paddy and cornfields on the other. Besides this, a dozen of cattle's, few barnyard fowls, a freshwater pond, and many acres of fertile land were in his possession. During the day he was surrounded by workers managing his possessions however at night he was all alone.


He had a reputation for greed, wickedness and quarreled with almost everyone in the village over petty issues. There was a rumor that his wife left him within a month of marriage due to his atrocious behavior. He acquired land from poor farmers illegally, never paid the workers full money, he held it back as compensation for very silly reasons such as hen did not lay egg on time, cattle’s were late by five minutes to shed or for that matter not watering the plants when it was raining outside. He was simply a synonym for cunningness and people hated him to core. Not even a dog liked him!


On a rainy evening while winding up his day he recounted his cattle multiple times. He slashed and bashed the cowherder with his trash like mouth. Disgusted, the cow-herder spoke to Seena in-harmoniously and left him to find his cattle alone. Seena, clasped the torch to obtain his missing cow. He called out its name several times, until he heard a loud restless “moo” by the pond. Thundering jet plane hum took over the cows moo. Running towards the pond he tumbled on stones and lost his torch. Murky darkness was lit by blazing blinding light, he ran as fast as he could to a massive alien ship in the grassland next to the pond.


To his horror, alien ship was captivating his cow, he jumped to pull her with all his might and thuddddd, they both fell down. He quickly grasped the cow by the leash in her neck and dragged her further away.

“How dare you take my cow. I will beat you to death! Get out of that fancy machine you stupid guy!”, Yelled Seena in anger.


The ship stopped whirring, out came a five foot tall, webbed feet, three eyed, frog faced human like creature. “You ugly frog face, wait until I whip you” said Seena while picking up a big stick to hit this creature. As he raised his hand high to hit, the stick had turned into a flower.


“Its you who is ugly, you trash mouth Seena! If I was not bound by my word to not hurt anyone, I would have turned you into a fish and thrown you in pond” replied the creature

Seena was in state of shock while the creature continued “I just need that cow for breeding in my planet. Last time I picked up seven bulls”

Wicked Seena was struck by an idea listening to this. As always he put forth a bargain “Listen up you creature, I will give you my cow provided you give me your fancy jet plane”

“How am I supposed to go back to my planet” argued the creature

“Then stay with me for seven days and serve me “

“Atrocious! I don’t need to heed to any of your orders! Am leaving”

“Ah! What about the word to not hurt anyone?”

“I ain’t hurting, you go back home safe”

“You are hurting me emotionally, mentally. That’s worse than hurting physically!”

All his possessions were near and dear to him. The creature sensed the emotional turmoil Seena would undergo if he took away his cow. After a thought he remarked “Alright! I stay with you and serve you for seven days”

Seena was absolutely thrilled at this victory “So you creature…”

“Firstly, don’t call me creature”

“Alright Kapperaya, come along”

“Kapperaya…”

“Frog face in local lingua”

“Mean! “

“I have heard that before. Get my cow to the shed right now “

The alien vanished with the cow to shed and while Seena walked his way back. He was overjoyed with his trickery.

Next morning, he ordered “Kapperaya, water the coffee estate”

With a sigh Kapperaya snapped his finger and the whole estate was sprinkled with just right amount of water. Witnessing this Seena gave him next set of orders to clean his bungalow, bathe cattle's, feed them and everything that all his workers did. Entire work was done in just 10 minutes.

“Wow! This is amazing. Now that we have lots of time & money, come take me for a ride in your jet” commanded Seena

 “Alright, come along”

In a jiffy they both were inside the space craft and took off for a ride in stealth mode. Seena had never beheld such a bewildering sight. World so beautiful, mountains, terrains, grasslands, and people from different culture, the whole day was spectacularly spent, as he arrived home he noticed the workers standing in the porch. He rudely shooed them away to return only after a week.

“They just spoil the mood, useless fellows! Kapperaya, prepare dinner for me “

At the snap there were was variety of food that Seena loved the most. Including a favorite sweet his mom made for him. “How did you get that”

“Your memories had these in them”

Next morning after all the routine work, Seena demanded that everyone in the village should bow down to him when walked by today. However, Kapperaya refused as it involved doing it against the will of others. He insisted “I can make it happen if you do good deed for the next 5 days”

“Good deed! What is that?”

“Hmm how about start with a smile and say thank you to all that come across your way. Give them a little rice from your paddy fields, clothes or anything that humans in need appreciate”

“Dare you play a trick on me”

“Ok then forget it, anything else you want me to do?”

“No wait! If I do good for next 5 days, I want the nearby villages also to bow to me. Can you do that?”

“Well, I will provided you do this without my support!”

Seena was in the seventh heaven now. He dreamed of ruling the neighbouring villages now. He went out with a jeep filled with rice bags and handed it over to the workers who worked in his fields. To his surprise an old mocked him “Selfish fellow! Definitely is planning something big else won’t give us food for free”

Turning his back to the rudeness of lady, he relentlessly worked next five days offering clothes, money, food, books, stationery all that the villagers needed. Some thanked some mocked however on the last day of this deal as he walked towards his jeep, few children came running to him and hugged him tight saying, “Seena uncle, Thank you so much! “

The touch of children opened his heart. His little pride was smashed by massive boulder of love. He turned around to notice the entire village encircling him for a glance. They bowed to him, thanked him, glorified him! Their eyes now displayed love than hatredness! He witnessed happiness for the first time in 40 years of his life.

He went home in joy and said “Kapperaya! Thank you! I have never been this happy before” and hugged him tight

“Meany weany Seena! What a surprise, you thanking me!”

“You did it! Everyone bowed down to me “

“I did nothing yet! Its you who earned it by your good deed”

“What!”

“Yes! They didn’t come to you because of my magic but for what you did”

Seena, broke down into tears realising how he spent his entire life cheating on people, by being mean to them. He learnt that it was love that lacked in his life and love could only come by loving others. The first step to love by being grateful to all the good things in life. He thanked Kapperaya for teaching him a lesson.

The next morning the workers had arrived on their own before the dawn and started working in his property. The conviction that with love everything can be conquered was proved. Seena, took out four of his best cows and gifted to Kapperaya as a parting gift. Besides that he gave back the farmland to the poor farmers that he had acquired illegally. From that day he never again was mean nor withheld any money from workers. People from neighbouring villages also started approaching him to take suggestions, just the way he wished for.



Moral: Gratitude and Love are the key ingredients for true happiness!!



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