Chapter 37

Chapter 37

KUMAR’S GOSSIP WITH FRIENDS AT THE BAR

Kumar on another day, told his friends in the bar, while taking alcohol drinks Its a just gossip making story he made and all the friends were in jolly mood. Kumar’s explaining the story goes like this –

It is a city and thickly populated residential locality. There are two poor friends, who live with their family people and children. Both these friend families live separately in a hut side by side, in a 50 squads land. Of course, both these two friends are in the middle age group. These two friends earn their Lively-hood by doing small petty vegetable business and fruit business. Both families participate in all the house-hold functions, pujas and attend marriages of their known persons. They lived happily.

As one knows, any family purchases any gold item or silver item or any garments or furniture on any major festival occasion, the neighbor family feels curse and jealous. It is nothing but natural. Everywhere the cursing and feeling jealous of somebody do happen. In every a family, these cursing expressions could be seen.

On one day, due to elections season, a well-known person of that city floats a new political party for contesting elections in that city. This new political party invited all the people of that city to enroll party membership. These two friends who live as neighbors enroll their names in the new political party. One friend, who was showing much interest in politics, works hard for the party and the party recognizes his services and gives a responsible position as an important functionary to this party.

During the election days, this friend works hard along with others and canvasses for the party. This new party majority member who was nominated to contest the elections gets elected.

This friend, who worked hard and earns some good amount of money through pyravi (negotiations) and as middleman also and earned money, and then this friend purchases a good piece of land around 400 square yards and constructs a four storied building with ultra-modern design in a span of two years. He even purchases brand new car. Then this rich friend and his family members shifts from their Hut to this new building and lived happily after discarding the vegetable and fruit business.

This rich hut friend and could not spare any time to attend any function with his hug friend also stopped frequently speaking to his close neighbor hut friend and could not spare any time to attend any function with his hut friend.

Then the problem started with hut friend and his family. There was a peak jealousy and cursing by the hut friend. Every day, the rich friend who is presently living in a hut used to see the new building.

One Priest of a Temple who is a famous palmist and astrologist nearby used to observe the “poor hut friend” who is observing and seeing the four storied building every day and asked the Hut Friend, why you are seeing everyday this new building? What is the matter? Then the Priest asked the Hut Friend, if you want money, gold, silver or good job, I will get you. Then the Hut Friend replied, No sir, I do not want anything. Then the Priest asked the Hut Friend, what you need to become like your neighbor friend who has built the building in front of your Hut. Then the Hut Friend replied to the Priest. Sir, please make by rich friend to live like me in a Hut. The Hut Friend also told the Priest that my rich friend should not live in that building and the Government to demolish that new building and razed to the ground, in view of his illegally earning the money through “Pyravis” (negotiations) and as “middleman”

Then the Priest told the Hut Friend that the fate of a person cannot be changed.

The Priest also told the poor Hut Friend that opportunities and luck knocks the door and at that time, one has to utilize such opportunities.

Then the Hut Friend kept mum and used to never watch his rich friend’s building from the next day. Poor Hut Friend and his family members continued to live in their Hut without any murmuring, jealous and sadism. So, the meaning of this story is that

“murmuring, jealousness and sadism never pay’s”. Only sheer hard work pays a person that too lucks also to favor such person.

Kumar had an idea and wanted to implement in action. Sanjay works in the same bank. Both the families used to visit each other’s house.

Kumar said, Hi, Sanjay, come for a party, we will go to a Bar and have beer. During the prolonged discussion, Kumar told Sanjay- Hey, I had an idea. This will make us free from financial constraints, we can become rich.

The plan was that, for any customer coming to the Bank for depositing money, I will issue the FDR with Manager Signature, cut the receipt, put the bank rubber stamp and issue to the customer, said Kumar. During the implementation of this fraud plan, Kumar did not make entries in the bank ledgers and not remitting the money into the Bank Treasury. Manager used to sign on all the FDRs thinking that Kumar was handling these things right from the beginning. Kumar thought for a while and wanted to take the advantage of Manager’s reposing confidence on him. In the absence of Manager, Kumar used to forge the signature of the Manager and used to issue FDRs. Kumar was able to implement his master plan with ease.

Sanjay used to give the blank FDRs, One Bank Cash Receipt Book and One Ledger, for maintaining records, as if it looks like official registers, but all these books are separately kept with Kumar himself.

Kumar said Sanjay. We will work closely on this subject and monitor all the transactions. Many customers deposited money in the form of FDRs. All the customers were given with these fake FDRs by Kumar and became financially rich and small amounts were given to Sanjay, as and when needed by him.

One fine day, Bank Audit took place. The Auditors observed everything going fine. But, they got a small suspicion that customers were not making any deposits to the bank at that branch. When the Auditors asked the Bank Manager regarding the raising of Deposits, the Bank Manager told that number of customers had deposited the deposits and all the details could be given by the Accountant Kumar, who was maintaining all the records. At that particular moment, Kumar was not available at the Branch.Sanjay was given some percentage and small amounts for helping. Things moved well for few years. Maya, the wife of Kumar was unaware of these fake and fraudulent financial transactions.

One 30 years old unmarried lady by name Miss Shalini entered the field and made a close friendship with Kumar by seeing Kumar’s luxury life and sound financial position. Shalini used to move very closely with Kumar. Their acquaintance became very close. Both used to go to parks, movies, hotels and other places like resorts & pubs. Kumar and Shalini’s movements got suspicion among friends. Kumar used to spend good amount of money to his lady friend Shalini whenever she met him. Kumar’s friends and colleagues say, both Kumar and Shalini had physical relationship.

They used to visit bars & pubs and were consuming liquor. Kumar was habituated to racing field. They even used to visit race course and used to enjoy the betting’s. Kumar lost most of the money in racing and much of the amount was spent on Shalini. Friends of Kumar say Shalini was a class keep and a paid bitch. Kumar deaf-eared to his friends’ advice not to entangle and fall prey to the deeds of Shalini, as Shalini’s track record say many people were the victims of her actions and landed on roads.

All these things were happening without the knowledge of Kumar’s wife Maya. But, Sanjay knew all these things and kept silent without informing Maya, as Kumar used to feed money to Sanjay for keeping the things secret.

Maya wife of Kumar got some smell about the behavioral attitudes of Kumar. Kumar was not going to his house regularly. Whenever he goes to his house he was seen at top gear and was in drunken condition. Some of the bank staff told Maya about Kumar’s movements with Shalini. Shalini was a beautiful and good looking lady. Maya got suspicion on Kumar. Maya called Sanjay who was a close friend to Kumar and enquired about all the issues. Maya confirmed that Shalini was a bitch and that Kumar got entangled with her, which made Maya angry, annoyed, irksome and embarrassing position. Maya took all the feedback on Kumar’s daily habits and movements with lady Shalini.

Maya also told Kumar that you may be an Occasional Liar/Bluff Master. But,on some occasions, sometime and at certain point, to save face value one can say something in an exaggeration, but it is not lie or bluff and the one is not a liar or a bluff master.

No human being is a King Satya Harischandra (Kind King – Truthful King – a SatyavaadeeRaajaa, a great King with his vow to remain truthful all times) or King Nala Maharaj, like in Hindu puranas history. (Nala, in Hindu mythology is the King of Nishada Kingdom and the son of Veerasena. Nala is known for his skills with horses’ ad culinary expertise. He marries to Princes Damayanti, of Vidarbha Kingdom (also called Bhaimi) and their story is told in the Mahabharata). So, one need not worry whether a person is a liar or a bluff master or otherwise.

So, this is not a subject to study in depth or it is neither a research paper nor anybody doing Ph.D. on the subject LIAR/BLUFF MASTER.