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The Tiger King by Kalki
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The Tiger King by Kalki
The story "The Tiger King" is quite an interesting fictitious story. The writer of this story is Kalki, an Indian writer, critic, journalist, and independent activist. The main theme of this story, "The Tiger King" is to satirise those rich people as well as kings of the olden days who were quite proud and arrogant and did various bad deeds in society due to their stubbornness and ruthless behaviour. This story has presented the vital role of destiny in a human being's life.
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The Tiger King by Kalki
This story took place in the Hindu kingdom. The name of that Hindu kingdom was Pratibandapuram. This story, "The Tiger King," centres around the life of the king of Pratibandapuram, whose name is Jilani Jung Jung Bahadur. He is the main protagonist of this story. When Jilani Jung Jung Bahadur was only ten days older, the astrologers predicted his life as well as his death.
According to the chief astrologer, Jilani Jung Jung Bahadur would grow up and become the king of Pratibandapuram one day. He would be quite powerful, as well as a famous king. He would be known everywhere, but one day he would die. In the meantime, the miracle took place in the council. Ten-day-old baby Prince spoke out quite clearly in front of astrologers, asking them about their predictions related to his future in the council. Everyone was surprised to hear him ask such kinds of questions to the astrologers.
The baby prince told them that everyone would die one day. Death is a universal truth and a natural process. All living beings have to die and leave this beautiful world one day. Death is inevitable. According to him, there was nothing new in such a prediction. Very precisely, the baby prince requested that the astrologers inform him about his real cause of death.
Later on, the astrologers revealed his real cause of death. According to the chief astrologer, the baby prince was born in the hour of the bull. It means Taurus zodiac. As there is always enmity between bull and tiger (Leo Zodiac), there is a danger of tigers (Leo) for the people of bulls (Taurus).
The astrologer clearly stated that the tiger would be his actual cause of death. After hearing the prophecy of the chief astrologer, the baby prince didn't seem afraid but spoke out a warning statement for all the tigers, saying, ‘‘Let tigers beware!’’ On that particular day, Jelani Jung Bahadur got a new name, "The Tiger King".
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UP TO NOW
Who was Tiger King? Why did he get this name?
Answer:
The Tiger King was the king of Pratibandapuram. His real name was Jilani Jung Jung Bahadur. His whole life passed hunting tigers' around. He got this name when he was only ten days older. He spoke quite clearly with astrologers about the predictions of his life as well as his death.
When he learned about his actual death through astrologers, he spoke out the warning statement for all the tigers, saying, ‘‘Let tigers beware!’’ From that particular time on, he got a new name, 'Tiger King'.
What is the general impression of human beings towards animals?
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What is the main theme of the story 'The Tiger King'?
Answer:
The main theme of this story is the ruthless behaviour of human beings towards animals. The writer of this story has satirised the attitude of human beings in this story. This story has presented the stubbornness and ruthless behaviours of rich people as well as the kings of olden times who used to kill innocent animals for their hobbies as well as enjoyments. They were supposed to hunt as a matter of pride. Animals are also part of this nature, as are humans. The story has satirised these useless acts of human beings and conveyed to us a meaningful message that animals should not be harmed but saved.
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After that, the baby prince was well handled and cared for by an English nanny. She taught him the English language as well as culture. As the baby prince grew older, he started reading English books and watching English movies. He was even fed English cow's milk. He became taller and stronger. In this way, time passed by. After twenty years, Jilani Jung Jung Bahadur, or The Tiger King, became the Maharaja of Pratibandhapuram. He knew very well about the astrologer's words from the past. After becoming Maharaja of Pratibandapuram, he started his tigers' hunt. There were many tigers in the forest of Pratibandapuram. When Maharaja killed his first tiger, he became too excited and happy. He called all the state astrologers once again to his council. He informed them about his first tiger hunt. The chief astrologer warned Maharaja that he wouldn't have any danger from other tigers except the hundredth one. He would have to be much more careful about the hundredth's tiger. That particular tiger would be his actual cause of death. Maharaja asked the chief astrologer what would happen if we killed the hundredth tiger. The chief astrologer replied to him that his prophecy would not be wrong. If such a thing happened, he would tear and burn out all his books related to astrology. He would even cut off his tuft, leave his profession of astrology, and become an insurance agent. The chief astrologer finished his line a bit unclear, but he encouraged Maharaja to do his hunting fearlessly. After killing the hundredth tiger, there wouldn't be any danger from tigers to Maharaja anymore. After hearing the astrologer's words, Maharaja continued his task of hunting tigers.
As time passed, Maharaja killed many tigers in Pratibandapuram. As a result, the number of tigers also decreased in those forests. Due to the lack of tigers, Maharaja announced that nobody would kill tigers in his kingdom except him. If anybody dared to fling even a stone at tigers, their property would be confiscated. After this announcement, people stopped killing tigers in that kingdom. Later on, Maharaja faced huge trouble. One of the British high-ranking officers sent his secretary to ask Maharaja to allow him to hunt some tigers in his kingdom. This proposal from the official made Maharaja quite dilemmatic. There were few tigers left in his kingdom, and his mission was to kill a hundred tigers. He even thought about the popularity of his name. Maharaja refused the proposal of the officer. He requested the officer kill other animals, not tigers. Maharaja again refused the second proposal of the officer taking a photograph of a holding gun just beside the tiger's dead body. Maharaja became so fearful about losing his kingdom. That officer was quite powerful during that time. Maharaja would have to lose his kingdom if that officer attacked him. Very wisely, Maharaja called a jeweller and ordered him 50 different diamond rings worth three lakh. He sent all those diamond rings to the officer's good lady, the duraisani. He requested that she keep one or two rings and send the rest of the rings back to him, but the duraisani kept all those diamond rings. Maharaja bore a huge loss, but he was able to save his kingdom.
Maharaja kept on doing his business of hunting tigers. He killed almost seventy tigers in the forests of Pratibandapuram. Later on, he tried his best to find some more tigers to hunt, but he couldn't. So he called the dewan, his chief minister. He asked him to find a suitable princess for him to marry whose father would have more forests with tigers. Later on, after searching, the dewan became successful in finding a suitable princess for Maharaja. Maharaja married that princess. Maharaja became successful in hunting some more tigers in her in-law's kingdom. Whenever Maharaja went to his in-law's kingdom, he killed five or six tigers from there. In this way, Maharaja killed his 99th tiger.
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Why was Maharaja sunk in gloom even after killing seventy tigers?
Answer:
Maharaja was on his mission of hunting a hundred tigers. After killing seventy tigers in his kingdom, there were no tigers left in his kingdom's forest. He was sunk in gloom because he couldn't find possible ways to hunt tigers. He wanted to evade his death by killing a hundred tigers.
Why did Maharaja decide to get married?
Answer:
In his mission of hunting tigers, Maharaja tried his best to He killed almost seventy tigers in Pratibandapuram. He tried a lot to find more tigers but couldn't. Maharaja decided to get married to a suitable princess whose father owned many forests with more tigers so that he could easily hunt tigers and accomplish his mission.
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It became quite difficult for Maharaja to find his hundredth tiger to hunt. Later on, Maharaja called the dewan once again and asked him to find out who his hundredth tiger was to kill. The dewan knew very well about Maharaja's aggression. So he brought a tiger from Chennai Public Park and left it in the jungle of Pratibandapuram. Maharaja shot that tiger, but that tiger survived miraculously. Later on, the tiger was killed by royal hunters. Maharaja became quite satisfied, thinking that he had completed his mission of saving a hundred tigers and even evaded his death.
During Maharaja's son's third birthday party, Maharaja provided a wooden tiger to his son as a gift. While playing with his son, a sliver from a wooden tiger was pierced on the finger of Maharaja's right hand. The infection in that wound increased too fast. Doctors started treating Maharaja. The infection in Maharaja spread quite fast, and that covered his right hand. Later on, surgeons started their surgery. They became successful in their operation. They were successful in taking the sliver from Maharaja's finger but were unable to save Maharaja's life. Eventually, Maharaja got killed by the sliver of the wooden tiger. In this way, the prophecies of astrologers turned out to be right.
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