The dance of Jackals: its quite horny

Statutory Warning : This is a profane piece of imagination about acts in jungle. Its similarity with men,rascals and beasts is purely coincidental and unintentional.

RaGu was a  prodigy cub. He had a big dream. He didnt want to rule in a small forest, so he went to the mightiest of all jungles.  There he battled with Hyenas, leopards, Cheetahs and yes scores of Jackals and,rascals to be the Don of the Jungle. When RaGu was growing big as a lion, these jackals tried to kill him. They thought they were stronger and knew the jungle better. RaGu, the lion he was, was driven by the Great ambition, to be the King of the Biggest Jungle and to lead the tribe which dominated it . Once RaGu was established as the Supremo, all these jackals started singing Paeans about him. Fox news ran episodes on how RaGu was the greatest lion ever born.There were these scores of these who wrote, ‘how to’  hunt like RaGu, kill like RaGu, roar like RaGu, 5 things we can learn from RaGu etc.  Every body who seemed to have a little contact with RaGu seemed to be writing about RaGu’s exceptional talent, hunting skills. Just putting RaGu’s name on any book was sure to sell a million copies in the Jungle.

Once while on hunting with Vanaratnam( Another ferocious lion ), RaGu made a serious mistake. Actually , he acted  funky  with this rare Antelope and not doing something inside with Antelope’s horn. He rubbed his ass against the horns of the kill. The horn of the antelope, though appeared less menacing, went straight into his ass and broke. Externally, it just appeared like a horn in the ass and nothing significant but his ass was bleeding internally. People poked at him. RaGu pretended to ignore this horn. He kept the pain of internal bleed to himself. The jackal community and those of foxes where very concerned. They knew that RaGu may go down. They were also thinking that RaGu as a fighter may survive. What to do then ? They came up with an idea. They started telling every one that its not the horn which is beside RaGu but its a SHIT which has dried up. Every fox and jackal went around the jungle telling everybody how something behind RaGu is just Shit. The kind of shit they have always seen behind great Lion like RaGu. They convinced and swore by forest gods that no horn can ever go and stick behind the Great RaGu. In the mean time, RaGu became reticent, his public appearances became less frequent. His internal ass bleed was killing him. Finally one fine day, Charaka, the bear who was medical officer to RaGu declared him dead. The royal family was in shock. The king was dead.

The Jackals on the other end of the jungle had published a huge treatise. ” 5 reasons why RaGu was doomed to get his ass screwed since his birth”.  Pandemonium reigned, the chickens and lambs had queued up in huge numbers to buy the first copies.

Moral : The same jackals who sing your paeans when you are powerful will screw you once you are dead.

Arun Purohit
Entrepreneur and Bad boy of Indian startups