Summary of the story 'Tales of Bhola Grandpa' by Manoj Das.

The story centres round the funny, fanciful and forgetful man, Bhola Grandpa. He lives with his wife at the western end of the narrator's village. It was a moonlit night. Bhola Grandpa was returning from a festival with his grandson who suddenly slipped from his hand and was lost. But soon the boy was found sitting under the belly of a cow. The incident was quite amusing and it made a commotion among the villagers.
   
           Another incident that made the narrator's father and his friends unnecessarily harassed, was a confusion between fancy and fact. It was an exciting tale of pirates burying a treasure in the nearby seashore. All the efforts of the narrator's father and his friends failed to find out the large box after a nightlong search. At last Bhola Grandpa confessed his mistake that it was his daydream.

      Equally interesting is Bhola Grandpa's encounter with the Royal Bengal Tiger: one evening he was returning from a weekly market,he confronted a tiger. It was gazing at him from a little distance. He hurriedly climbed up a banyan tree and saved himself by spending the night there. But at dawn he had altogether forgotten all about the tiger and came down in search of water. As he was reminded of the tiger, he was panic-stricken. He then made a headlong retreat to home.

     Bhola Grandpa was a long-lived man. He died at the age of ninety five. His wife believed that he must have forgotten to breathe.