a bridge NOT that far !

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PUTTING
THINGS IN THE PROPER

PERSPECTIVE

( i made this piece as a part of the aluva chapter in an effort to put things there on that blog in the proper perspective. the problem was that when i tried to republish it google came with a message that the publishing cannot be done because there was some one else editing the same page at that very moment. so i thought i may as well try publishing it over here as well. thank you )

A  PRACTICAL  JOKE

I had been to trivandrum on 11 oct 2010. I was to meet a real estate agent to clinch a deal I believed was agreed on after running round a lot all over trivandrum. But once I decided that I was going to proceed further on the matter the fellow backed out and the deal was off. It was all a practical joke. The agent has been manipulated by the gestapi – aa payyane nangal paranju manassilakkiyittundu.

Not only that, the payyan's brief for the day was that I should be kept in trivandrum till the evening – most likely to facilitate a “security check” in side my house during that time. I have indeed catered to such an eventuality and arranged  a present to the charans in the form of a few mls of fluid in a couple of rubber containers hanging from a hook on the  bedroom door before I left for the railway station – the usual poster sticking was skipped this time by gaad, the “intelligentsia” were terribly offended when they came across the posters. The whole day I was being dragged around on the pretext of showing me one land or the other. I was in the remote interiors of trivandrum and had hitched a ride on the pillion of the agent's motor bike and there was no way I could have come back on my own.

I was not surprised for this was what was expected. The only purchase that the gestapi has on me is the fact that I am living in a rented house – that the gestapi can evict me from my rented house by putting pressure on the house owner. the moment I build a house of my own that advantage will be finished. So every effort will be on to torpedo my efforts in this direction.

I was aware of this fact from the very beginning and that was why when a person told me on his own that he will help me build a house I jumped at the chance for there was nothing like having some one who could stand up on your side as well. And this person is experienced in this sort of things; he had built at least three houses for himself and knew the ins and outs and that was the only thing I was interested in. and i decided to shift to the place he suggested – it was a calculated risk I had decided to take.

ANOTHER
OF THE STRATEGIES

I have been sitting at home and had no regular income since 2005. it is not that my working days are finished but because of the fact at the moment there is no way I can find alternative employment. So I have been reduced to 6500 rupees per month.

I am not interested in a lavish life style – I still use my clothes stitched in alleppey way back in 1992 – 93 ( that is thanks to the fact they have never been to the washerman's; also I am very fond of those clothes all stitched in alleppey and never wanted to shed them) but even then one cannot survive on 6500. Out of the 6500 I pay 4000 as rent; after I shifted over to aluva the telecom has one way or other ensured that my monthly bill comes to around thousand in tvm I never paid anything more than the Rs400/- and there is no way of checking over here for none of the facilities like the automatic meter reading and the call blocking etc never function and it is very much possible that many of the free services are being metered. Then there is electricity and there my use is a bit on the higher side what with all sorts of home appliances upon which I am heavily dependent and that comes to another five hundred per month.

I am still able to survive because I have some money stacked away and in spite of the embargo I am able to hang on and do not have to beg.

So every effort is on to deprive me of whatever little amount I have in my reserve funds by hook or crook. Come one, come all; help yourselves – no questions will be asked. 

My property is being destroyed wantonly and all I can do is watch helplessly. vehicles and all are lying outside in the open and even otherwise when I am not there, there are going to be break-ins as part of the “security” duty and they can pinch anything that can be hidden on their person.

The ultimate aim is to reduce me into a homeless pauper and you would see that the happenings in aluva once I moved into this place is in congruence with this sort of a strategy.

A TWO PRONGED ATTACK

Newdelhi  2009 was not exactly a big set back – the gestapi just succeeded in delaying the inevitable. I can always go back and I am going to do that ; I will get at them if not today, tomorrow.

But it would have been far more comfortable if I could have launched the assault from the comforts of my own home and so I had put the legal assault on the back burner for quite some time now and was concentrating on the home building front. 

Whatever experience I have already gained on the home front till now has been extremely helpful and I am confident of completing the construction according to my own plans. But it is going to take more time than I had expected initially ( in fact I do not want to rush it and would like to take my own time rather than rush into something which I cannot come back from – obviously there is no question of my building another house later on ! ). So I have decided to work on both fronts simultaneously.

all that is needed is just update the data in my old files and that is going to be a very easy job -  I already have started dusting up the old files. It is going to be a very open affair and every thing  is going to be there on the cloud -

CLOUD NINE

you be the judge !

thank ya.

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