Gift of chappel summary

Mridu lives in Chennai with her grandparents.One day she goes to visit her aunt Rukku Manni and her cousins Lalli, Ravi and Meena.Mridu noticed a pair of large chappals when she reached their house.Her cousins showed her a kitten in the backyard which they had found the very same morning in front of the gate.The contrast between what people say and what they actually practice has been portrayed here where parents advice to take care of animals and on the other hand, scream when you do so with animals brought from the street.They share their secret plight and how they fed milk to the kitten, hiding from their mother.They had named the cat Mahendravarma Pallava Poonai.Tracing instances from history, the cousins proved that the cat was a descendant of a lion, the lion which was the emblem of the Pallava dynasty.They thought that the cat was a Mahabalipuram Rishi-cat....