Rikki Tikki Tavi is a short story it was published in 1894 but what is the story all about? The story of Rikki Tikki Tavi is about a mongoose who one day got washed out of his burrow where he lived with his mother and father kicking and clucking down a roadside ditch and he found a wisp of grass laying there so he hung on till he lost his senses. then Rikki Tikki Tavi was found in the hot sun but a small boy named teddy saw him and thought he was dead and was going to have a funeral for him but his mother thought he wasn't dead so they took him home to dry him off. When Rikki Tikki Tavi woke up he looked around the house and was calm and bonded with the family but later they fed him a piece of raw meat and he loved it then went to the garden just to look around but met the birds that were called darzee and his wife and they were sad, Rikki Tikki Tavi asked why and dairzees wife said because nag ate my baby eggs and then from grass comes a hiss and Rikki Tikki Tavi jumped two feet back and then inch by inch out of the grass came nag spreading his hood scaring Rikki Tikki Tavi but he remembered his parents