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this is a wonderful story told by folding newspapers. this is about ganpat who works
in coastal part of india called as konkan. now during the rainy season its the time for
planting paddy and this is type of umbrella cap which ganpat wears while planting paddy
in the fields. ganpat has great desire to go to the city. so he takes a train to mumbai
and once he reaches there, he goes to a hotel to seek a job and the hotelier says that i
have a job of a cook. so ganpat takes it up. there is ganpat wearing his cook's cap. he
works there for a few days and then he wants to take upp a different profession and he
becomes a kind of politician. you can see this is a local politicians cap. and after
sometime he wants to set up his own shop. so the old cap is transformed into a square
box cap which the merchants wear. now ganpat has become a merchant. but he doesn't like
it. he finds that role to be very very boring. and a few days later there is an adjoining
building which gets burnt off and he sees the fire brigade people. now he wants to join
the fire brigade. so he takes his old cap, gives it two more folds and then he transforms
his old cap into a fireman's cap. fireman wear a cap with a shoot at the back because
it protects their spinal chord. so this is the fireman's cap. now he wants to join the
police force. so he takes the same cap and gives it a couple of more folds and this is
a very very famous cap. all the bollywood films made in india wears a cap like this.
its also known as the pandu cap or the policeman's cap. he has been away for a long time since
he left his village so he wants to go back to konkan so he takes a boat and sails back
to his own village. but the got caught in a storm. the front and the rear portion get
knocked off, so does the bridge. now the boat is torn to smithereens and since ganpat knows
how to swim, he swims for a little while but being clever he locates a life jacket and
then ganpat puts on this life jacket and returns back safely to his village.