Chameli’s Castle

Chameli loved colours very much.  “I am a colourful girl” Chameli would often scream in ecstasy.  She wore colorful dresses quite often.

Chameli decorated her room with colourful pictures, drawings and paintings.  Chameli’s room was painted with four different colours – orange, yellow, sky blue and parrot green.  On birthdays and festivals, everyone would present her lots of gifts like paint boxes, colour pencils, drawing books, painting brushes and water colours.

Mom maintained a colourful garden for Chameli.  Roses, hibiscuses, marigolds, jasmines, shoe flowers, golden trumpets and many plants made a colourful world for little charming Chameli.  Chameli played with colourful butterflies and dragonflies.  She sang with parrots, mynahs and cuckoos.  Sparrows and doves were regular visitors at Chameli’s colourful garden. 

One day, Chameli complained with a faded face – “I want a colourful friend”.  Astonishingly, Mom asked – “Colourful friend?” 

“Colourful friend!” Birds and squirrels chirped.  Butterflies and dragonflies astonished – “Are we not colourful?” Papa wonderingly said – “Already your world is full of colours!”

“Doves are white, parrots are green, cuckoos are black, sparrows are brown and most of the flowers carry one particular colour.  I am bored of same friends of same colours.  I need a new colourful friend” Chameli retorted. 

“How funny you are!” Papa smiled.  “We can’t have peacocks at home” Mom replied.   “Bow... Bow...” Dimbo dog from the neighbourhood barked – “A rooster can be a colourful friend”, Dimbo said.  “Oh! You want to feast upon my rooster?” Chameli grinned at Dimbo.  Everybody burst into laughter.  Chameli’s face faded more.

Suddenly, someone shook the tiny branch of Chameli’s favourite jasmine plant.  Everyone stared at the new visitor.  Suddenly, it jumped over to the wooden log.  “Hey, its colour got changed” Chameli screamed.  Further, it jumped to the green fence and then over to the creepers.  Every time, Chameli screamed surprisingly – “It’s got a new colour.  Who is this magician?”

“Finally, you got a colourful magician!” Mom smiled.  “Clee... Clee... Clee... Chameli’s chameleon” birds and squirrels chirped.  Chameleon demonstrated its colour changing tactics to Chameli by changing the surfaces.  Chameli’s face, once again blossomed like a colourful flower.  “Wow, my new friend is really colourful!” Chameli danced delightedly.

Mom presented a colourful crown to Chameli – “You are my princess”.  Chameli smiled – “I am the princess in the castle of colours”.

Birds flapped while butterflies and dragonflies fluttered around their princess joyfully.  Rainbow smiled in the sky.  Skylarks sang melodiously.  Little Chameli smiled elegantly. After all, colours make our world colourful!!!

 MURALY TV