Keep pocket.
Keep pocket!
Mr Mishra was confused over the name or adjective of the old man in his sixties, he knew pickpockets. Those are plenty now a days, not a few in earlier days either. He asked Mr Nayar over a cup of tea. Nayar the proud man works as head accountant in the Jindal Stainless Steel and Power Limited at Madhuban industrial area. He belongs to Malgudi in Kerala and personally knows RK Narayanan the founder of the city, but he desired to live here with family forever. This old man is seen here for last several months only.
The tea tasted pleasantly different, keep pocket prepared it with white milk extracted from the mesh of coconut pulp.
Oh!
Mr Mishra was confused over the name or adjective of the old man in his sixties, he knew pickpockets. Those are plenty now a days, not a few in earlier days either. He asked Mr Nayar over a cup of tea. Nayar the proud man works as head accountant in the Jindal Stainless Steel and Power Limited at Madhuban industrial area. He belongs to Malgudi in Kerala and personally knows RK Narayanan the founder of the city, but he desired to live here with family forever. This old man is seen here for last several months only.
The tea tasted pleasantly different, keep pocket prepared it with white milk extracted from the mesh of coconut pulp.
Oh!
Mr Nayar explained,
this man is not an ordinary one, a famous man in entire Kerala beyond Malgudi. Not only in Kerala the whole of South India knew him. Famous! Mr Nayar wanted
to correct it to infamous.
Once upon a time he was young, with a beautiful wife Heena
and two small children a toddler boy and an infant girl. He earned enough to
run his family and to keep her wife in up to date fashion that made her happy.
She never enquired what exactly his earning was and the method.
Melas were the best places for his job that demanded
clinical precision, and attention of a fish bird. On one occasion as told by RK
Narayanan he followed a man of his own age moving in the mela with a
conspicuous green blazer. Green blazer drank green coconut milk this man followed, he
wanted a balloon from a vendor as demanded by his motherless child and
bargained for it's price this man overheard. This man went on following the blazer till ultimately the job was over, the
purse was picked up.
Before throwing the empty wallet into an unused well he wanted to fill the flaps with small pebbles to be sure it dipped to the bottom of the well to be unnoticed. He discovered the balloon, that one which the green blazer purchased for his motherless child. It turned his heart, became too emotional to feel the reaction of the longing child of this cruel man bargaining on the price of a balloon for a motherless child.
He once again was in the mela spotted the green blazer in the rush and tried to keep the wallet back in his pocket with the balloon inside, a bad job for him tried for the first time in his life.
Oh no! He failed and the strong man in green blazer caught him. It followed the standard treatment by the mob.
Before throwing the empty wallet into an unused well he wanted to fill the flaps with small pebbles to be sure it dipped to the bottom of the well to be unnoticed. He discovered the balloon, that one which the green blazer purchased for his motherless child. It turned his heart, became too emotional to feel the reaction of the longing child of this cruel man bargaining on the price of a balloon for a motherless child.
He once again was in the mela spotted the green blazer in the rush and tried to keep the wallet back in his pocket with the balloon inside, a bad job for him tried for the first time in his life.
Oh no! He failed and the strong man in green blazer caught him. It followed the standard treatment by the mob.
Heena now could know their life line ran with his unholy
earning.
She tried to get her man released as the last act was the only good work he did in his life. Why then punish him? She moved from post to pillar, but it was proved beyond doubt he was a pickpocket. The only defense he uttered everywhere and in front of the magistrate was that he tried to keep it inside his pocket.
This was not a defense but confessing the crime.
Still then his wife tried. The advocate told her the only way was to convince the green blazer to withdraw the case. Now she became penniless.
She tried to get her man released as the last act was the only good work he did in his life. Why then punish him? She moved from post to pillar, but it was proved beyond doubt he was a pickpocket. The only defense he uttered everywhere and in front of the magistrate was that he tried to keep it inside his pocket.
This was not a defense but confessing the crime.
Still then his wife tried. The advocate told her the only way was to convince the green blazer to withdraw the case. Now she became penniless.
Heena went to the complainant several times, cleaned his
house, did all works she found pending in the womanless house. That man
sympathized her, gave her money to run the family, sent chocolates to her
children, and finally agreed to withdraw the case as he was convinced the pickpocket with a good intention came back to him and actually tried to keep it
back.
He first went to Police station with Heena. Heena saw the photograph of her man on the warning notice board. It depressed her. The police officer told that the matter is now within court's control and there only the appeal to withdraw the case would be done.
They went to the advocate, paid his fees and he promised to appeal.
They went back to the railway station, here also her husband`s photo was displayed which she could not see as it was displayed at a height. Now the green blazer intentionally made her aware of the photo there and at some other places in the platform. "Once the man returns will start picking up", he reminded her. With a voice full of concern and compassion he wanted to tell her that the future was not desired to be in bad hands of that pickpocket. He wanted to remind she was very beautiful and her children cannot be properly groomed with unholy earning. He wanted to take their care, he wanted to impress her that his own son is very nice and mild tempered.
He was rather crazy, to win her imagination.
Something echoed in her core. She was no more interested for his release, she got afraid. She was now concerned, the punishment was only one and half year imprisonment which she imagined should have multiplied with number of previous crime he had done. Crimes were increasing only because of ordinary punishment. What would a weak and poor man do to her after his release? His name was reflected on all mirrors as a pickpocket.
Felt pity for him.
Green blazer is strong, with money and earns from noble work with all probability. He had one child she had two. What harm is to add a child of theirs to his child and her children?
she now was excited for him.
They returned back towards his fairly good house. She was found sitting very close, resting to him like a creeper.
On the very next day she with her children lived with him. After few months they sold everything and left Malgudi forever.
He first went to Police station with Heena. Heena saw the photograph of her man on the warning notice board. It depressed her. The police officer told that the matter is now within court's control and there only the appeal to withdraw the case would be done.
They went to the advocate, paid his fees and he promised to appeal.
They went back to the railway station, here also her husband`s photo was displayed which she could not see as it was displayed at a height. Now the green blazer intentionally made her aware of the photo there and at some other places in the platform. "Once the man returns will start picking up", he reminded her. With a voice full of concern and compassion he wanted to tell her that the future was not desired to be in bad hands of that pickpocket. He wanted to remind she was very beautiful and her children cannot be properly groomed with unholy earning. He wanted to take their care, he wanted to impress her that his own son is very nice and mild tempered.
He was rather crazy, to win her imagination.
Something echoed in her core. She was no more interested for his release, she got afraid. She was now concerned, the punishment was only one and half year imprisonment which she imagined should have multiplied with number of previous crime he had done. Crimes were increasing only because of ordinary punishment. What would a weak and poor man do to her after his release? His name was reflected on all mirrors as a pickpocket.
Felt pity for him.
Green blazer is strong, with money and earns from noble work with all probability. He had one child she had two. What harm is to add a child of theirs to his child and her children?
she now was excited for him.
They returned back towards his fairly good house. She was found sitting very close, resting to him like a creeper.
On the very next day she with her children lived with him. After few months they sold everything and left Malgudi forever.
No one liked to carry the message to the pickpocket. He by
the time of his release was a joke in police circuit as keep pocket.
He lost his mental balance seeing the happenings, went to the police station to lodge the complain that Green blazer stole his wife. Police consoled and counseled him to leave the place.
He demanded some action; if keeping back a purse was punishable then burglary of his wife and children needed some bigger punishment.
Now all told he was mad, children threw pebbles at him; all called him keep pocket to chide. The man left Malgudi and wandered at different places of south India, his photograph on the notice boards made his life pathetic.
How he lived till today is strange.
He lost his mental balance seeing the happenings, went to the police station to lodge the complain that Green blazer stole his wife. Police consoled and counseled him to leave the place.
He demanded some action; if keeping back a purse was punishable then burglary of his wife and children needed some bigger punishment.
Now all told he was mad, children threw pebbles at him; all called him keep pocket to chide. The man left Malgudi and wandered at different places of south India, his photograph on the notice boards made his life pathetic.
How he lived till today is strange.
He cursed himself for not being capable of keeping something
in someone's pocket with equal skill of picking a wallet. tried practising. His only purpose of
earning from various manual labor was to save some money, buy a wallet and keep
a currency note and a balloon inside it, then put it in someone's pocket who
appeared helpless to his eye. Sometimes people misunderstood him, some people
got real benefit and it became a perpetual news item. He always remained in
disguise. When he could not earn anything he tried differently, would pick up
from two pockets and exchange the rich man’s purse with poor man`s.
He spoke to himself, "wallets love rich pockets."
He spoke to himself, "wallets love rich pockets."
Once he picked up a
purse and could not do the next trick. A photograph of a middle aged woman was noticed in it. Yes it could only be Heena. Instantly knew the purse belonged to
his own son, he got an address, Jindal stainless, Madhuban, Jajpur, Odisha that
brought him here.
Mr Nayar deciphered his language in this unknown place and could know it was his own address which Heena`s son kept to meet him here to appear an interview, days ago one of his relations in Kerala requested to help the young man's entry to his company.
He did not leave Mr Nayar with a hope that his son may come here one day. He lived with hope.
Mr Nayar deciphered his language in this unknown place and could know it was his own address which Heena`s son kept to meet him here to appear an interview, days ago one of his relations in Kerala requested to help the young man's entry to his company.
He did not leave Mr Nayar with a hope that his son may come here one day. He lived with hope.
Mr Nayar is not telling a story it is real as exchange of
purses makes news in Madhuban. Mr Mishra suggested taking the keep pocket
to a psychiatrist for a cure before he meets his son.
Neither of them is sure it will help the situation or will be detrimental.
Neither of them is sure it will help the situation or will be detrimental.
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