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Jannal oram 59
"The more deeper you think, the more silent you become. You understand the reasons behind the reason. It may not necessarily mean you are short of words. You however know what ignorance can trigger and how to deal with ignorance and purpose. The timeliness of your word is surely on point. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Raman left his car and took a uber cab to TTK road,Alwarpet and got out of the cab and looked up at the 5 storeyed Unicorn steel building,dressed in steel,chrome and a dark shade of glass.The sensor above the glass sliding doors,blinked red as he neared its proximity and opened its glass arms and raman entered the cool,centrally air conditioned confines of the company.
The front desk was to his left and the center and right spaces of the ground floorwere occupied by expensive looking furniture and terracota pieces that screamed roman and egyptian culture.It never failed to amuse him as to people's choices about how their house should be and having a small roof with tiles and living under it,thinking that's mediterranean and then the current fad of buying chettinad artifacts such as wood pillars and doors and fooling themselves that they were now dwelling in a chettinad palace.
Raman was not a cynic by any nature and was just plain amused at people's thought processes when it came to style,class and wishes for in the end,it only appeared as a joke.He remembered a house,somewhere in egmore which had four different looks on all four sides of the house and the owner too more or less was like that four sided house.
The usual soft,easy listening music came from expensive looking bose speakers that rained sound from the ceiling and the scattered here and there were cameras looking out in all directions from the safety of their glass or plastic shells.
Raman walked towards the front desk behind which a man was talking on the phone and the other person,a smart looking woman,looked up,flashed a polite smile and enquired " Good morning sir,how can i help you" and raman
" i am here to meet mr.krishnaswamy iyer,your boss and my name is raman."
The receptionist,obviously a veteran of many desks and smart,took in raman and asking him to hold on,got up and turned and reached to a green phone and pressing a number,whispered into it for a few moments and turning back looked at raman who knew from the deference and the way in which she whispered into the handset,that she had spoken to the boss himself who probably made his existence on the 10th floor.
The receptionist stood up and turning to her colleague " Ganesh,i am going up,will be back in a few minutes" and looking at raman " Sir,please follow me and led him to the elevators who stood as twins facing each other.
But one had a key pad and the woman pressed a code and the doors opened and both got in and without even a murmur,the metal box glided to the top.
The music in the elevator was some serious carnatic music and it sounded a bit like maharajapuram santhanam and his rendition of Purandaradasa kritis.
The great vocalist had sadly died in an accident in 1992 at the age of 63 along with his wife and grand daughter and the Indian music had lost its leading star.
His thoughts of carnatic music was quickly ended as the doors opened and the large and luxurious private world of krishnaswamy iyer beckoned and turning to the woman and thanking her,raman stepped into the thickly carpeted floor and saw the man himself seated at his table watching every step that raman towards him.
Gurumurthy whom raman had met earlier in the court stood as tall as him but mr.krishnaswamy was of only average height and maybe 5ft 6 or at the most 5ft 7 and like most powerful men who are secretly ashamed of certain natural and god given things,did not stand which by way of courtesy could have been the right thing to do,not that raman was expecting such courtesies from the gentleman opposite him.
The battle lines that had been drawn between him and anwaruddin were immediately reminded to raman when mr.krishnaswamy growled rudely " Say what you have come to say and leave quickly without wasting my time."
Raman had been prepared for all this rudeness and attitude and yet knew that the man was behaving in such a manner because he loved his son too much and his ego had been hurt with his sons decision to marry jameela.
Staring at krishnaswamy,raman " Sir,i will not waste your time but i request you to grant me a few minutes of your patience while i say what i have come to say."
Krishnaswamy sarcastically " I damn well know what you are going to say mister and why you have come here at this moment.You are going to beg for mercy and ask for forgiveness for anwaruddin and his family.But let me you beforehand and that is i am not going to forgive and forget and you will get no mercy from me."
Opening a draw on the left side of the table,raman saw krishnaswamy iyer take out an expensive looking box that was flat and slim in size and the minute the box was opened,he knew that it was a cigar box and really expensive stuff for the aroma filled the room with its rich leafy smell from the shores of havana.
Krishnaswamy iyer expertly sliced off the tip of the cigar he had picked up from the box and expertly lighting it with some fancy looking lighter,pushed himself away from the table and threw his left leg over his right and began to shake his foot and blew a cloud of blue smoke in raman's direction.
Raman smiled and his mind recollected superstar rajini lighting a cigar and looking at sharatbabu " Malada,Annamalai" and now he looked at krishnswamy and thought " You are neither rajini nor am i sharat babu."
and began to speak.
" sir,firstly i thank you for agreeing to meet me and secondly for granting me permission to say what i have come to say.I am not going to take up your valuable time but i do have to bring to your notice and make you aware of what all this case will bring up in the court and in the end what the public will end up hearing."
Raman's tone changed a bit and became a bit more serious " sir,if you persist on bringing mr.anwaruddins family too into this case,then we will bring up charges of more serious nature,such as intent to defame and malign a decent family and these day,defamation charges are pretty stiff once proved.So,i request you to not proceed in this rather uncalled for manner and let us settle this out of court and end this once for all."
Krishnaswamy " Just what i though you were going to say and you will think the same after hearing what i have to say and that is,i will not rest until i have ruined anwaruddin and his family and i will keep on doing it until they have vanished from this earth."
And then with a look of disgust on his face " now you can get the hell out of my building and don't ever try to contact me again or try to enter this building for i will have you beaten and your bones broken and will file a criminal complaint against you."
Leaning forward,krishnaswamy iyer,pressed a button and yelled " send security to my floor and tell them that there is a man here who is physically threatening me."
Raman sighed and shook his head sadly and then rather leaving,reached into his coat pocket and brought out digital voice recorder and switching it on placed it on the desk in front of krishnaswamy iyer.
In the quiet and private space of the boss of unicorn steel,his voice loudly yelling and screaming could be clearly heard and the expression changed slowly on the rich man's face.
The slim,grey digital voice recorder played out the scene that had obviously been the last meeting between anwarudddin and krishnaswamy iyer in the very same office,now echoed the anger of that moment.
" You bloody,cheap bas***d.You think you can wriggle your cheap daughters looks before my son and try to take over my company and my money.I will kill you,destroy your whole family before that happens.My son is an ignorant young man and you are trying to pimp your daughter and make her sleep with him.what do you think you can achieve by that?you think i will let my bloody son marry your filthy prostitute of a daughter."
The sudden cries of a scared and heart broken anwaruddin could be heard as he pleaded ignorance " Sir,please,i had no clue about this until last week.i will not allow this wedding to happen,but please as a father i beg of you to not use such filthy words when talking about her."
The recorder spoke " Father and daughter.maybe you should start a brothel somewhere and you can pimp that prostitute and make some money for you are going to need every paisa of it for fighting all the cases i am going to bring against you and your family."
Raman reached and switched off the recorder and was about to place it back in his coat,when the elevators opened and two security men rushed in and looked at their boss.
Krishnaswamy iyer looked at them " That guy has a small equipment in his coat.take it from him and after a few slaps,throw him out and also call the police and ask them to come here and arrest this cheap advocate."
Raman stood up and taking the digital recorder from his coat pocket,placed it on the table and looked at both the tough and fit looking security men "Take it,if you can."
True spirit of Judo is nothing but the gentle and diligent free spirit. Judo rests on flexible action of mind and body. The word flexible however never means weakness but something more like adaptability and open mindedness. Gentleness always overcomes strength.Kyuzo Mifune
The two security men looked at raman,a slim maybe lean looking lawyer but did not have a clue as to who stood before them.For who stood before them was three time tamilnadu state judo champion,who could have easily become a national champion and gone on to world ratings if he had not had been involved in the accident.
Raman who until then had stood politely,with the proper posture,now breathed and visibly relaxed and then the first security guard rushed towards him,trying to grab his collar and Raman moved,slowly,subtly and to his left,which was the right of the oncoming guard and grabbing his hand,twisted and threw him gracefully over his shoulder and the man fell with a thud on the carpet and the other man screaming ran towards raman who just side stepped at the last moment and stuck his leg out and sent the guard sprawling to the floor.
Raman looked at both of the men who lay looking up at him " That was just a warning and the next time you try to do that,i will break your hands and legs and you will be crippled for life.so,stay on the ground until i leave ."
Turning to krishnaswamy iyer " you want this recorder,please take it and i would have given it if you had only asked for it.That simple."
Raman,reached into his shirt pocket and picking up a card,gently placed it on the table in front of krishnaswamy iyer and tapping it " Do you see what that says mr.krishnaswamy? It states my name s.raman and my qualification.But down below,it also states who i am and that is a committee member of the bar council of tamilnadu and pondicherry.Now,i want you to ponder over that and to all the liabilities that you will have to face for this attack on me.But i am not going to press any charges for i still think that inside you there is a great man,a kind man who can overcome the angry father,the hurt father and in the end be just a good and kind human being."
Picking up his coat,raman placed it on his left arm and then picked up the files he was carrying and looked at krishnaswamy iyer " Sir,you are older,wiser and more experienced than me.so,i hope and pray that you will come to your senses and make the right call here.You want to sue my client mr.anwaruddin for late payment and dishonoring the deadline,okay,i understand and will even agree that you are in the right.But,please do not bring the family and their reputation to court and defame their name and lives.I beg of you.But if you still insist on maintaining the same mindset,then i will be forced to use this recording and then you have only yourself to blame for that.
By the way,even after everything,your son might still end up marrying jameela and if that happens,what will you do next."
Raman calmly walked to the elevator and pressed the button and waited for it to come back again and the two security guards timidly followed him into the elevator and raman did not even bother to notice them.
The two men stood away,giving raman space and they stood with their head bent down in shame and just as the ground floor was reached,one man mumbled " sorry sir,please,we have to do as we are told."
Raman nodded " But you know the line between right and wrong?correct" and walked out of the building,tapping the uber app,requesting a ride back to Egmore to Rangachari and associates.
Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.Zhuge Liang
"The more deeper you think, the more silent you become. You understand the reasons behind the reason. It may not necessarily mean you are short of words. You however know what ignorance can trigger and how to deal with ignorance and purpose. The timeliness of your word is surely on point. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Raman left his car and took a uber cab to TTK road,Alwarpet and got out of the cab and looked up at the 5 storeyed Unicorn steel building,dressed in steel,chrome and a dark shade of glass.The sensor above the glass sliding doors,blinked red as he neared its proximity and opened its glass arms and raman entered the cool,centrally air conditioned confines of the company.
The front desk was to his left and the center and right spaces of the ground floorwere occupied by expensive looking furniture and terracota pieces that screamed roman and egyptian culture.It never failed to amuse him as to people's choices about how their house should be and having a small roof with tiles and living under it,thinking that's mediterranean and then the current fad of buying chettinad artifacts such as wood pillars and doors and fooling themselves that they were now dwelling in a chettinad palace.
Raman was not a cynic by any nature and was just plain amused at people's thought processes when it came to style,class and wishes for in the end,it only appeared as a joke.He remembered a house,somewhere in egmore which had four different looks on all four sides of the house and the owner too more or less was like that four sided house.
The usual soft,easy listening music came from expensive looking bose speakers that rained sound from the ceiling and the scattered here and there were cameras looking out in all directions from the safety of their glass or plastic shells.
Raman walked towards the front desk behind which a man was talking on the phone and the other person,a smart looking woman,looked up,flashed a polite smile and enquired " Good morning sir,how can i help you" and raman
" i am here to meet mr.krishnaswamy iyer,your boss and my name is raman."
The receptionist,obviously a veteran of many desks and smart,took in raman and asking him to hold on,got up and turned and reached to a green phone and pressing a number,whispered into it for a few moments and turning back looked at raman who knew from the deference and the way in which she whispered into the handset,that she had spoken to the boss himself who probably made his existence on the 10th floor.
The receptionist stood up and turning to her colleague " Ganesh,i am going up,will be back in a few minutes" and looking at raman " Sir,please follow me and led him to the elevators who stood as twins facing each other.
But one had a key pad and the woman pressed a code and the doors opened and both got in and without even a murmur,the metal box glided to the top.
The music in the elevator was some serious carnatic music and it sounded a bit like maharajapuram santhanam and his rendition of Purandaradasa kritis.
The great vocalist had sadly died in an accident in 1992 at the age of 63 along with his wife and grand daughter and the Indian music had lost its leading star.
His thoughts of carnatic music was quickly ended as the doors opened and the large and luxurious private world of krishnaswamy iyer beckoned and turning to the woman and thanking her,raman stepped into the thickly carpeted floor and saw the man himself seated at his table watching every step that raman towards him.
Gurumurthy whom raman had met earlier in the court stood as tall as him but mr.krishnaswamy was of only average height and maybe 5ft 6 or at the most 5ft 7 and like most powerful men who are secretly ashamed of certain natural and god given things,did not stand which by way of courtesy could have been the right thing to do,not that raman was expecting such courtesies from the gentleman opposite him.
The battle lines that had been drawn between him and anwaruddin were immediately reminded to raman when mr.krishnaswamy growled rudely " Say what you have come to say and leave quickly without wasting my time."
Raman had been prepared for all this rudeness and attitude and yet knew that the man was behaving in such a manner because he loved his son too much and his ego had been hurt with his sons decision to marry jameela.
Staring at krishnaswamy,raman " Sir,i will not waste your time but i request you to grant me a few minutes of your patience while i say what i have come to say."
Krishnaswamy sarcastically " I damn well know what you are going to say mister and why you have come here at this moment.You are going to beg for mercy and ask for forgiveness for anwaruddin and his family.But let me you beforehand and that is i am not going to forgive and forget and you will get no mercy from me."
Opening a draw on the left side of the table,raman saw krishnaswamy iyer take out an expensive looking box that was flat and slim in size and the minute the box was opened,he knew that it was a cigar box and really expensive stuff for the aroma filled the room with its rich leafy smell from the shores of havana.
Krishnaswamy iyer expertly sliced off the tip of the cigar he had picked up from the box and expertly lighting it with some fancy looking lighter,pushed himself away from the table and threw his left leg over his right and began to shake his foot and blew a cloud of blue smoke in raman's direction.
Raman smiled and his mind recollected superstar rajini lighting a cigar and looking at sharatbabu " Malada,Annamalai" and now he looked at krishnswamy and thought " You are neither rajini nor am i sharat babu."
and began to speak.
" sir,firstly i thank you for agreeing to meet me and secondly for granting me permission to say what i have come to say.I am not going to take up your valuable time but i do have to bring to your notice and make you aware of what all this case will bring up in the court and in the end what the public will end up hearing."
Raman's tone changed a bit and became a bit more serious " sir,if you persist on bringing mr.anwaruddins family too into this case,then we will bring up charges of more serious nature,such as intent to defame and malign a decent family and these day,defamation charges are pretty stiff once proved.So,i request you to not proceed in this rather uncalled for manner and let us settle this out of court and end this once for all."
Krishnaswamy " Just what i though you were going to say and you will think the same after hearing what i have to say and that is,i will not rest until i have ruined anwaruddin and his family and i will keep on doing it until they have vanished from this earth."
And then with a look of disgust on his face " now you can get the hell out of my building and don't ever try to contact me again or try to enter this building for i will have you beaten and your bones broken and will file a criminal complaint against you."
Leaning forward,krishnaswamy iyer,pressed a button and yelled " send security to my floor and tell them that there is a man here who is physically threatening me."
Raman sighed and shook his head sadly and then rather leaving,reached into his coat pocket and brought out digital voice recorder and switching it on placed it on the desk in front of krishnaswamy iyer.
In the quiet and private space of the boss of unicorn steel,his voice loudly yelling and screaming could be clearly heard and the expression changed slowly on the rich man's face.
The slim,grey digital voice recorder played out the scene that had obviously been the last meeting between anwarudddin and krishnaswamy iyer in the very same office,now echoed the anger of that moment.
" You bloody,cheap bas***d.You think you can wriggle your cheap daughters looks before my son and try to take over my company and my money.I will kill you,destroy your whole family before that happens.My son is an ignorant young man and you are trying to pimp your daughter and make her sleep with him.what do you think you can achieve by that?you think i will let my bloody son marry your filthy prostitute of a daughter."
The sudden cries of a scared and heart broken anwaruddin could be heard as he pleaded ignorance " Sir,please,i had no clue about this until last week.i will not allow this wedding to happen,but please as a father i beg of you to not use such filthy words when talking about her."
The recorder spoke " Father and daughter.maybe you should start a brothel somewhere and you can pimp that prostitute and make some money for you are going to need every paisa of it for fighting all the cases i am going to bring against you and your family."
Raman reached and switched off the recorder and was about to place it back in his coat,when the elevators opened and two security men rushed in and looked at their boss.
Krishnaswamy iyer looked at them " That guy has a small equipment in his coat.take it from him and after a few slaps,throw him out and also call the police and ask them to come here and arrest this cheap advocate."
Raman stood up and taking the digital recorder from his coat pocket,placed it on the table and looked at both the tough and fit looking security men "Take it,if you can."
True spirit of Judo is nothing but the gentle and diligent free spirit. Judo rests on flexible action of mind and body. The word flexible however never means weakness but something more like adaptability and open mindedness. Gentleness always overcomes strength.Kyuzo Mifune
The two security men looked at raman,a slim maybe lean looking lawyer but did not have a clue as to who stood before them.For who stood before them was three time tamilnadu state judo champion,who could have easily become a national champion and gone on to world ratings if he had not had been involved in the accident.
Raman who until then had stood politely,with the proper posture,now breathed and visibly relaxed and then the first security guard rushed towards him,trying to grab his collar and Raman moved,slowly,subtly and to his left,which was the right of the oncoming guard and grabbing his hand,twisted and threw him gracefully over his shoulder and the man fell with a thud on the carpet and the other man screaming ran towards raman who just side stepped at the last moment and stuck his leg out and sent the guard sprawling to the floor.
Raman looked at both of the men who lay looking up at him " That was just a warning and the next time you try to do that,i will break your hands and legs and you will be crippled for life.so,stay on the ground until i leave ."
Turning to krishnaswamy iyer " you want this recorder,please take it and i would have given it if you had only asked for it.That simple."
Raman,reached into his shirt pocket and picking up a card,gently placed it on the table in front of krishnaswamy iyer and tapping it " Do you see what that says mr.krishnaswamy? It states my name s.raman and my qualification.But down below,it also states who i am and that is a committee member of the bar council of tamilnadu and pondicherry.Now,i want you to ponder over that and to all the liabilities that you will have to face for this attack on me.But i am not going to press any charges for i still think that inside you there is a great man,a kind man who can overcome the angry father,the hurt father and in the end be just a good and kind human being."
Picking up his coat,raman placed it on his left arm and then picked up the files he was carrying and looked at krishnaswamy iyer " Sir,you are older,wiser and more experienced than me.so,i hope and pray that you will come to your senses and make the right call here.You want to sue my client mr.anwaruddin for late payment and dishonoring the deadline,okay,i understand and will even agree that you are in the right.But,please do not bring the family and their reputation to court and defame their name and lives.I beg of you.But if you still insist on maintaining the same mindset,then i will be forced to use this recording and then you have only yourself to blame for that.
By the way,even after everything,your son might still end up marrying jameela and if that happens,what will you do next."
Raman calmly walked to the elevator and pressed the button and waited for it to come back again and the two security guards timidly followed him into the elevator and raman did not even bother to notice them.
The two men stood away,giving raman space and they stood with their head bent down in shame and just as the ground floor was reached,one man mumbled " sorry sir,please,we have to do as we are told."
Raman nodded " But you know the line between right and wrong?correct" and walked out of the building,tapping the uber app,requesting a ride back to Egmore to Rangachari and associates.
Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.Zhuge Liang
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