Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Once upon a time in the jungle of Nandanvan lived a smart monkey, called Chimpu. He was brave and witty. He helped all his jungle friends in the time of need. He helped them solve problems in the jungle and thus was also known as the jungle detective.
It was one of those cold winter mornings when everyone in Nandanvan had just begun to wake up. Soft rays of the sun brought warmth in Nandanvan. Gauri, the cow got up early as usual. She had some friends coming for lunch and she wanted to make pudding for dessert. She wanted to make pudding as early as possible so it would set firmly when the friends would come. Just then she realized that a big bottle of honey from her kitchen was missing. "Oh no!" said Gauri, "How do I make pudding now? I think I will borrow some from Gomi goat". So Gauri went to Gomi goat that lived next door and asked her if she could spare some honey. Soon Gomi too realized that the honey bottle in her house was missing.
By noon, everyone in the jungle gathered that honey had been stolen from their houses. A robbery had taken place in Nandanvan and all the honey was gone. All the inmates of jungle went to lion Shersingh, the king of Nandanvan. "Maharaj Shersingh, all the honey from our jungle has disappeared. Someone has robbed our honey", cried all the animals. "Without honey I cannot get rid of my cough", said Mani cat. "What will happen to my beauty and diet, all the honey is gone", cried Dinky, the doe. Listening to all the animals Shersingh finally decide to call Chimpu- the jungle detective. "I am sure, chimpu will help us nab the thieves and get our honey back", said the King.
Chimpu came to Nandanvan and started his investigation at once. He thought, "Who in this jungle would love to have honey? It must be the ants; they like sweet things and are the first ones to gather when anything sweet gets spilled". He decided to look for ants and their house. He spread sugar cubes randomly on the jungle road and waited silently, well hidden behind the bushes. Soon after he saw a long line of ants crawling and collecting sugar cubes. Within no tme the jungle road was clear of sugar cubes and ants carried it to their house right under a big Banyan tree. Chimpu carefully looked around the ants' house but could not find any honey there.
Chimpu thought again and came back to jungle. Now he wanted to investigate the crime scene thoroughly. After all he could get some clues there. He first went to Gauri's house and looked carefully on the ground. He saw large pugmarks in the house which were quite different from Gauri's hoof marks. Next he went to Gomi goat's house. After looking around be bit there too he found similar pugmarks. He also found some black fur in Gomi's house.
Suddenly, Chimpu understood. "Who else in the jungle loves to eat honey, has big pugmarks and has black fur too. Hmmm, now I know, it must be Bholu, the bear!" exclaimed Chimpu. "He just loves honey, has black fur all over his body and would leave big pugmarks as he walks".
Chimpu gathered all the inmates of Nandanvan, along with jungle police. They all went to Bholu bear's house. As soon as the police raided the house, they found large barrels of honey all filled up to the brim with honey. He was leisurely sitting and eating honey which he had stolen from the jungle. The police caught him and took him to Shersingh.
Shersingh was really happy that Chimpu could solve the case within no time and all the animals of jungle got their honey back. He gave a bravery medal to Chimpu and felicitated him.
And Bholu, the thief of jungle was sent to jail for a long long time!
Gayatri Gurjar
Dimdima is the Sanskrit word for ‘drumbeat’. In olden days, victory in battle was heralded by the beat of drums or any important news to be conveyed to the people used to be accompanied with drumbeats.
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