3. Iswaran, The Story Teller BY RK NARAYAN.pdf

the Class 9 English Supplementary Reader ‘Moments’ is a short story titled Iswaran the Storyteller. It is a story about a junior supervisor, Mahendra and his cook, Iswaran. One day, he tells his master a ghost story. Does Mahendra get scared?

1. ISHWARAN THE STORY TELLER
By –Brahmjeet
TGT English
JNV Shajapur.

2. About the writer
R.K.Laxman

3. •RasipuramKrishnaswamyIyerLaxman'' is an
Indian cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist. R.
K. Laxmanwas born inMysore. His father was
a headmaster and Laxmanwas the youngest
of six sons;an older brother is the famous
novelist and Vice-chancellor of MG
University,Kerala,R. K. Narayan.

4. •Laxmanwas engrossed by the illustrations in
magazines such asThe Strand
Magazine,Punch,Bystander,Wide
WorldandTit-Bits, even before he could
read.Soon he was drawing on his own, on the
floors, walls and doors of his house
anddoodlingcaricaturesof his teachers at
school; praised by a teacher for his drawing of
apeepalleaf, he began to think of himself as
an artist in the making.

5. R.K.Laxmanas A cartoonist

6. About the story.
•Mahendrawas an supervisor in a firm used to
prepare different construction sites.

7. •He had an asset in the form of Ishwaran, his cook.
Ishwaranwas a skilled coockand a good story teller.
He learnt this story telling art from the Tmilhorror
thrilled writers he used to read. His own description
was greatly influenced from Tamil writers. As a fallen
tree for him was a bushy beast----

8. •He mingled one story into another. So
beautifully that his account became upended
•He explained the story of an tusked ,escaped
from the forest and destroyewdthe town as
well as his own school. And how he faced it
bravely only with the help of a tiny scale. He
made the tusker collapsed .

9. •On one auspicious day he cooked a story of a lady ghost and
a foetusin her hand. Mahendradid not believe on the
account. That night Mahendraheard a noise near his window.
He observed a cloudy form clutches a bundle in her hand. He
sunk into deep depression and resolved
•to go on long leave.Ishwaranlaughed
•a grin laugh and asked Mahendra
•about his last night ghostly experience.

10. •The End.