Question

Describe the capture of Kala Naag.

Answer 1

Hint:This question is from “The mark of vishnu”.
The Gunga Ram tale by Khushwant Singh shows the dangers of falling into the pit of blind faith and superstition.

Complete answer:
Kala Nag was sitting outside in the grass one day, as the monsoons had burst with all their fury and rained in the night. Rain had flooded the hole of Kala Nag. He sat on the lawn in an open patch. In the sunshine, his glossy black hood glistened. He was tall, nearly six feet long, and rounded and fleshy.
Kala Nag was targeted by the narrator and his brother. There wasn't much of a chance for the Kala Nag. The ground was slippery and water filled all the holes and gutters. Gunga Ram was not helping at home.
Armed with long bamboo sticks, before he even sent a threat, they surrounded Kala Nag. His eyes turned a fiery red when he saw them, and he hissed and spit on all sides. Then, like the lightning created by Kala Nag for the banana grove. It was too muddy for the ground and he slithered. When a stick hit him in the middle and fractured his back, he had barely gone five yards. He was reduced to a squishy-squashy pulp of black-and-white jelly, spattered with blood and dirt, by a volley of blows. His head also remained undamaged.
They didn't want the hood to be harmed, so they slipped a bamboo stick under the belly of the cobra and raised it to the end of the pole. They put him in a big tin of biscuits and fastened it with a string, then hid the tin under a bed.
That's how kala nag was captured.

Note:Khushwant Singh has been a long-time journalist, and even today his paper on politics and economics is valued. His sense of humour is noteworthy. He reveals the superstition of an elderly Brahmin in the storey "Mark of Vishnu".
For all living things, Gunga Ram had great respect. He thought that Kala Nag was a manifestation of Lord Vishnu. Yet the same snake ironically killed him. The argument that the blind superstitious is risky is motivated by his tragic death.