Vayalar Sugunan is a story teller in Kerala. He deserves attention. professionally he is a librarian a reader of many books. he ever thinks about creating stories. he is always critic on cheating others for surviving. to avoid controversy he uses animals instead of human beings as partners in his stories.
Neelappan is very wealthy and he goes on tour every year. he gets only a wicked friend with him to accompany. he now goes to an Arab country the exact name of country is not mentioned. his friend tells that this is the land of oil. we can see from which particular part we can tap oil.
they avoid areas which are well developed and go to highly remote places. if any area is abundant in oil we can try to capture it in future by once more coming with armed persons with us. they found an old camel. as a tactic the friend told asalamu alaikkum as the friend was a political worker in Kerala always trying to get the votes of others by pleasing them by mere words. neelappan ridiculed...that is only a camel and not a human being to say like this.
then the friend said...even if it is a camel, he is a creature of god. I have no discrepancy towards any creature. any way they entered on top of camel proceeded to remote places. they saw mountains of soil. camel climbed those mountains without difficulty. winds were experienced with soil substances with it. they closed their eyes to protect their eyes. they could not detect the places from which oil is abundantly available. they have no technical knowledge and the guide camel is only an illiterate animal. hours were passed. they have no stock of drinking water. thirst was too extreme and the friend is not ready to suffer this. he took a knife.
he began to cut the stomach of that camel to find the internal bag in which camel keeps water for future use. unable to suffer this camel like a human being talked as a surprise. you first talked to me in the name of god asalamu alaikkum. is this your god belief? on hearing this Neelappan felt shame and apologized to camel. Camel leaved them in the desert and said you may wait another camel to return as he feels pain by the wound .what a suffering for two traveling keralites.