Iswaran The Storyteller  

The story was narrated to Ganesha by a young man, Mahendra by name.

He was a junior supervisor in a firm which offered on hire supervisor at various types of construction sites: factories, bridges, dams, and so on.☺️

Mahendra'' s job was to keep an eye on the activities at the work site.?

He had to keep moving from place to place every now and then as ordered by his head office: from a coal mining area to a railway bridge construction sites, from there after a few minutes to a chemical plant which was coming up somewhere. ?

He was a bachelor.

His needs were simple and he was able to adjust himself to all kinds of construction, whether it was an ill-equipped circuit house or a makeshift canvas tent in the middle of a stone quarry ​​​​​​.?

But one asset he had was his cook , Iswaran.

The cook was quite attached to Mahendra and followed him uncomplaining wherever he was posted.?

He cooked for Mahendra washed his clothes and chatted away with his master at night.?

He could weave out  endless stories and anecdotes on varied subjects.?