Symphony of Breeze

4.

Where must be Elias now? My closest friend in the Indian army. After the retirement, he settled in Hyderabad, the land of his wife. The final news I heard about him came a year and a half ago. The news was a sad one. He had fallen ill with lung cancer. It was a phone-call from his daughter Celina, a scientist, whom I knew from her childhood. She used to call me, ‘Uncle Alex, and sometimes playfully, ‘Alexander the Great.’ It was from AIMS, Delhi that she rang me up. He was taken there for effective treatment. I wanted to go and meet him. But, then I was too busy for the reasons I would feel ashamed of now. I had filed a case against a man, who had refused to quit a two-roomed building owned by me! He had a four-membered family with only himself earning.

The case went on and on…finally, I won the case in the court and had the man and his family kicked out of my building. The sorrow on the face of the man did not touch my soul then. But, now it re-emerges, haunting! The wounded eyes of his wife and children! They went away homeless. To where? I don’t know. Neither did I enquire too…

That was just one of many court cases I had fought and won. By the time I had won the cases, I had forgotten the plan of visiting Elias along with many other precious things in life!

Many many faces emerge in my mind when I close my eyes…many many haunting faces!
(Continues…)

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