Summary of The Telegram on the Table ( Pradhan )

Unit-12 Love
Flax-Golden Tales

The Telegram on The Table
– Four Levels

Parshu Pradhan, Nepal (1943)

Translated by Michael Hutt

For : BA / BBS First Year (Business English )

Literal Comprehension :

In this story Pranshu Pradhan has presented the bitter reality of Nepalese youths who come to he town from their villages and the never like to go back to their village . They dream to go to the foreign country where they think that there is heavenly pleasure and hey could earn enough money . In reality there is full of struggle.
Krishna a boy come to Kathmandu from hos remote village and learned English language. Then he started to work as a tourist guide to describe the historical places to the tourists . In the beginning he used to go to his village at the time of Dashain. But now , he completely forgot his village , Parents and even his wife . He demanded to go to the foreign country as a foreign girl would marry with him and she would take him to her country . He though that his wife was the obstacle for his next marriage . He hoped for the death of his wife because it would be the freedom for his plan . Unfortunately his wife died and he got a telegram about the news of his wife ’s death. He becomes happy and though it was his wish fulfillment . Those , a friend come to express his condolence and he just said “ Thank You ” for but he couldn’ t because of the poor condition of his room . One evening he suddenly remembered his past and the poor background. He also felt that an Image of women came into his mind . The image was of his wife dead . He realized his mistake that he become happy t the death of wife . He read the telegram again and he tore it into places he started to weep .

Interpretation:
This presents the bitter reality of Nepalese youths who come to town from their villages and they never like to go back . They dream for the foreign country and though there is heavenly pleasure there. But in reality there is also struggle. Krishna , the young boy also dreams to get married with a foreigners and to go to the her country . But at last he realized his reality and his dream was not fulfillment . It also shows that we should learn to live with reality about not in dream .

Critical Thinking :
Many people think that their life , would be happy if they get go to in the foreign country . But Pradhan has exaggerated. Some issues here in his chapter . How could a person forget his wife completely ? How could he be happy at the death of this wife ? There is no any evidence about that bad relationship between Krishna and his wife . Man can dream for better future but he can’t forget the present completely .

Assimilation :

This story taught me the lesson that way the town is over crowded people like to come to the town but they never like go to back to their villages . It also taught me the lesson that dream may not be true for all the time. We should learn to live reality . We all have ambition but over ambition are bad . We should not forget our pas , background and reality which are with us.