Whale Whisperer, Bone Burglar

Here’s a story I wrote some months ago. My friend encouraged me to post it here after we both found a real person named Prutha (who’s the protagonist of this story). This real Prutha’s interest in whales and bones remains to be ascertained. I hope you enjoy the story! PRUTHA INDICA, WHALE WHISPERER, “BONE BURGLAR”, PASSES AWAY AT 88 Family to organize a community reading hour at the Garden of Books on Friday. “It was her fierce last wish,” says Bhoomi, her youngest daughter. SIYAHIPUR, MONDAY | Dr Prutha Indica, the woman who, as a child, looked at the skeleton of a whale in a Chennai museum and thought, “I wonder what it would be like to ride a whale,” and then went on to become the first person to do so, passed away in her sleep last night. She was 88. “It’s enough,” Dr Prutha had said of her age on her last birthday in May. Born in Siyahipur, the Kingdom of Ink, Dr Prutha lived in different parts of the country. She studied History at college and wrote her PhD thesis on “The…