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food for him and even washed his clothes. Mahendra says that Iswaran

would gather all the things required to prepare a meal within no time.

Every morning Mahendra would get ready, eat his breakfast, take his

lunch along and go for his work. In the meantime, Iswaran would clean

the living place, wash the clothes, take a bath, eat his lunch, read his

favourite Tamil story book and take a nap. In the evening, Iswaran would

entertain Mahendra with his stories. He had the art of storytelling as he

would use his body gestures, facial expressions and voice modulation in

order to bring his characters to life. Even though the stories seemed

untrue, Iswaran narrated them in such a unique way that Mahendra

listened to him with curiosity. Iswaran would start a story with an

introduction, he would lay the background of the character, followed by

the story. He described a simple incident in such detail, along with

actions that it would create suspense in the listener‟s mind. Once he told

Mahendra the story of an elephant that had escaped from the jungle and

entered the town. The beast reached Iswaran‟s school. As it destroyed

the school property, all the students locked themselves up in the

classroom. At that time, Iswaran was studying in one of the junior

classes. He was watching the incident from the rooftop. He took a stick

from the teacher and came down stairs, onto the ground. He walked

towards the elephant as it threatened to attack him. Iswaran was not

scared of it. He gathered all his strength and hit the elephant on its

toenail quickly. This attack stunned the elephant, it fainted and fell on the
ground. He did not complete the story and said that he was getting late

for the dinner. He went to get the dinner but Mahendra was curious to
know what happened next. As Iswaran did not continue with the story,

Mahendra had to remind him that the ending was pending. Then Iswaran
said that a veterinary doctor was called. He brought the elephant back to

consciousness and after two days a mahout was called who took the