PUTTING THINGS IN THE PROPER
 
PERSPECTIVE

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 before I left for the railway station had arranged a present to the charans in the form of a few mls of fluid in a couple of rubber sacs  hanging from a hook on the bed room door – 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 or so 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 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 all 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. Everybody is  welcome to help themselves – 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. even otherwise when I am not there,  there are going to be break-ins ( as part of the “security” duty ) and anything  that can be concealed on their  person is likely to be pinched.

THE PROPER PERSPECTIVE

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

 to be continued.

now back to 

CLOUD NINE

for the time being

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the aluva chapter

in retrospect

chapter 00 

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well, the aluva chapter for all practical purposes is over and has become  rather redundant. as such, what i am going to jot down over here in this blog is going to be a retrospect of sorts.

all the same there are certain things that i feel ought to be put in the public domain for i feel they have a certain amount of educative value for the novice. also it wouldn't be right that the propagandists' version  only comes out and mine is suppressed.

so whenever and wherever i can coax my lazy self to do so i will be filling in the story - in  instalments.

and for once i am typing in directly on to the blog rather than use an editor and there are going to be additions and alterations till the all the episode comes online. so the finished product could be very different from the initials ones in the finer aspects though the crux is the same.

in crude physical terms ( that is leaving alone a poor man's "vedanakalum madhurakinavukalum".) i will be reverting to a situation where i was six months back and that ,short of  50,000 INR. i know it is a very small sum for anybody else but for some one who is eaking out a living on a monthly pension of 6500 INR it is a rather big amount especially so in view of  the piddly sum that i have saved over the years.

the introduction

i was in new delhi during march - may 2009 trying to move the apex court with a writ petition under article 32 of the constitution of india - the constitution guarantees this right to every citizen of india. i was back on 25 may 2009 if i remember correctly and the very same day the owner of my rented house told me, no, he ordered me that i must vacate the house by the end of the  month - that is within the next six days or so. it was an impossible proposition and this proposition was coming up within three months of the fellow signing an agreement hiring out the house to me.

why should he have done this? well, anybody else in his position would also have been doing the same irrespective of caste creed community social status educational qualifications or any such thing for the people who are directing the happenings are the real powers that be of this country - the indian edition of the gestapo, the gestapi.

i was not bound to vacate in that hurry for the agreement clause specifically stipulated one month's notice but that was the maximum i could avail. and i some how or other managed to find a house in that interval.

the actual owner of the next house had told  me that i can stay in that house  for any number of years but as luck would have it i was asked to vacate even before the first one year was completed - some turn of events which were not anticipated earlier. the long and short of it was that within a period of one and a half years i had packed up and shifted house three times.

shifting a house they say is the third most stressful event in ones life and a fellow like me who manages the whole show himself - packing, transporting, unpacking - it was a real tough situation and  i had degenerated to a state where i was willing to do anything or experimenting to any extent to stop this cycle going on for ever.

it was exactly at this time that i received this grand offer of building a house of my own and  that within less than six months and a rented house to stay till the house is built.

i swallowed the bait hook line and sinker. 

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the wall clock in front of me shows 1045hrs - it is GMT
i AM feeling very sleepy and  tired.
but i am terribly hungry as well
and am planning to have some milk and cereal before i hit the bed. 

i will be polishing up whatever you see above,
formatting it and all; but that will have to wait.

now do not miss the ensuing episodes; 

they  are going to be very juicy,
and full of PD (para dooshanam)

see ya

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CLOUD NINE