Sastry K Ganti

Gator Aids Sastry K Ganti

The story is based on some true happenings, in summer of 2019. ('strange ramblings' within the story are the musings of an old man.) A dangerous beast was spotted (luckily) in a well visited lagoon, in a popular park, which is pretty close to the crowded downtown of a large metropolis. A few fishing enthusiasts conjectured; 'Ahaa! must have grown too big to remain a pet?' Really?!The ensuing events intertwine 'its fate' with the personalities of a preschool girl and her grandpa. Both are 'los regulares', and are concurrently hanging around at the park's playground. She, emotionally gifted and kind hearted, has a knack with animals and possesses unblemished instincts; the old man is, shall we say 'the basic non-trusting type average retiree' whose instincts were eroded gradually over decades and rambles on to self constantly. But wait!He is in the process of self-renewal since the instance of her birth, with serious self-realizations that evoke internal struggles goading him to change. Paranoid of making mistakes, his unspoken mission has become to change self, to influence his granddaughter in the ultimate perfect way. Further, he is out to 'preach' to all, on 'what's been wrong always, in the raising of infants from birth to about 6 years. He refers to that period as, 'The 1st but lasting stage graduation; no formal diploma is ever awarded though. That period of unrecorded learning and absorption by the tender-aged is THE bedrock for all of future living'. On such undetectably charged scene explodes the beauty out of the beast, revealing its mission. SOOoooooo! READ ON, and be more than entertained!