In the Telugu states, there was a famous story taught to every child in its childhood by its mothers as her deliberate activity at the time of food feeding of the child. It is none other than STORY OF SEVEN FISH. In almost everybody’s life, it would be the debut fiction. Now such activity and story narration are antediluvian due to introduction of virtual screen au fait.

The same story is delineated hereby for a fresher.

Once upon a time there was a king and he had seven sons. One day all the seven princes went to fish hunting and returned with seven fish. All the seven fish were kept under sunlight for dry up. Later, one of them was rotten due to inadequate drying. All the 7 princes made an inquiry into this lapse. At first, the spoiled fish replied the flaw caused with obstruction of the shadow of a grass heap. In its turn, the grass heap replied in the inquiry that the lapse was attributable to a cow which did not consume it. Again the cow complained the cow-shepherd did not offer her to eat the grass heap. Again the cow-shepherd answered he could not resume his daily duties as his food was not given timely by the female servent concerned. The female servent replied in her turn in the inquiry that the kid did not stop crying and thus she was engaged in the unexpected work of pacifying the kid. The kid in his turn replied an ant bit one of his hands mercilessly. In the end, the ant explained its reason in the inquiry that it would not spare anyone if anyone had disturbed its mound.

The story ends here. The denouement of story with a little bit dramatization by the mother gives a joyful kick to the child and thus its mood is drawn to food eating. The same story is repeated at the request of the child again and again till the food in the bowl or plate is exhausted. The same story, the same twist, the same joyfulness and the food eating is a continuous process without any change or boring in the entire duration of childhood. Nobody thinks beyond of it.

Now I would like to touch some queer dimensions of the story which are not unlit so far.

1) Out of seven fish, only one was unfit for food purpose. It means about 86% (6 out of 7) of haunting fish was edible food. But there was no satisfaction, happiness about the highest rate of success of food preservation. The entire story pivoted over lamentation of spoiled fish. The conclusion is the man often concentrates more on the unhaving things, even if is trifle, rather than on having abundance for him.

2) The first 6 fish dried up themselves sincerely without any snag or trouble. They became palatable food to others. But their greatness was not praised anywhere in the story. Hence the morale is that the human being is least bothered to the goodness of others and ignores easily.

3) There are many reasons not to dry up the last fish. In reality also, people do not come front to do good but gives hand to hand to spoil others.

4) The child, who hears the story, gets more excitement at the last punch of the story, i.e., ant biting, with the dramatisation of its mother. In fact, the child demands repetition of the story from the mouth of its mother to have the same kick of the last punch again and again. Its consequence is that we have so many number of TV serials with never ending family harassments, family betrayals and family intrigues in which we suck immense joy.

5) One can observe the chain reaction of lame excuses in the majority part of the story. In reality also, almost everyone gets ready to plea instantly.

6) I too, since hailed from the same surface, do not deduce any optimistic conclusion from the story.