Book of Genetics

Long long long ago, lived a Gentleman, Adi, with his wife Iva in the Country of Eden on Earth. Little did he know he was made the King of Eden. He lived on rare fruits from the trees of his own orchard. So plenty were the yields in the garden that he was busy trying one fruit after the other until he fell down and snoozing. This continued in Eden until…

His wife, attractive Iva, on the other hand, was conscious of her image and beauty. Busy collecting herbs and rare leaves of cosmetic and medicinal value, she was very selective in her diets and never ever ate anything and everything comes her way. More so, she was kind with other creatures in Eden. She, in fact, used to make good friends out of the other creatures of Eden. Iva, being the most beautiful of all the Edenites, used to get very flavoured fruits of rare kinds from other Orchards too. Those were special fruits which were not often found in Adi’s orchard. Adi, though, had no knowledge of this trespass and continued his careless lifestyle. Iva used to induce her appetites with the apples and berries so brought for her from other orchards by her admirers.

Adi, though was to take care of Iva, seldom cared for her. He was trying on various fruits from the Orchard and had nothing else, but to sleep after filling his belly. What to say, his life was an interval between filling and emptying and refilling belly.

Eve, was often getting tired in the Kings Villa, that she had to be on her heals alone, many a time. What to say, after all, she was also made of flesh and blood. Her despair was growing day by day.

Then on one such day…

On one of her stroll in the back yards, she happened to come across, Serpan, a handsome young adult with long arms, dark blue eyes and wily grin on his lips. He was holding a very beautiful bunch of purple berry. With bubbling mouth Iva could not beat her tempt which eventually set upon the man and the berry.

Iva ate the berries. That day and days after.

She sensed pukish and pleasant uneasiness in her under belly. Never mind she had had a fine feeling inside. Her flat leaf-like under belly was growing……that it has become as big as a jack fruit found in her Orchard.

Tired and exhausted, one day while sleeping, Iva heard a voice. It was from the Watchman of the Orchard, who knew what had happened inside the Orchard.

The watchman pronounced, Iva ate the fruit which was prohibited in the Eden, and for that matter, she was no more eligible to be in Eden. She was asked to leave, no matter where, as that was the order of the owner of the Orchard. She held Adi’s hands, who was still asleep, and walked out of the gate of Eden.

The door was shut behind them.

When Adi woke up to his senses, he found himself out of the Orchard and in a dry land where he could not lay hands on his favourite fruits. He could not stand that and became angry. He beat Iva in anger that she was put on breathtaking pain in her belly. Not knowing what was happening Iva cried cried until she was parted with her burden. Beside her laid the twosome – later named Cai and Aai- both boys.

Slowly and steadily thereafter ….

Iva forgot all the pain of the beating she got from Adi. After all, she cheated on him by having those berries from that Wily Serpan. Otherwise they would still be in Eden and their beautiful Orchard. Never mind, Iva felt more happy as she has something to do here now. She was busy in nursing her two sons, Cai and Aai and fetching and cooking meat for Adi.

Adi seldom spoke after that, he, in anger, got hold of a sharp object and started tilling the land. From sun rise to sun set.

There was rain, and soon there were grains along the tilled lines. Adi plucked the wheats and ate. He found it good.

He gave some grains to Iva and the twosome. They ate and found it good too.

Then, cai and Aai had many of their brothers and sisters and lived in that place and that was named after Cai, the first born, Canai….

The story does not end here…