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Saturday, June 10, 2017

Chapter 2 happy days


as they opened the dairy the found an entry that would change their life forever


Date: 24/7/1919

Dearest dairy,

today I am very happy why you ask? I have just been on a survey of our estates.

And have come to know that we have struck up a profit this year too.

Our coconuts and other agriculture produce

are fetching a good price at the Tellachery bazaar.

There is also another good news to add to this is that I am getting married next year.

The word in the house has it, that it is to be a girl from the Eranad frontier.

She is said to be from the most ancient house of meladam.

I have managed to befriend one of her brothers and have managed.

To get a hold of one of the new fancied ‘Photographs” of my mystery lady.

By the gods she is a wonder to look at I just can’t wait to meet her.

In person I just can’t wait for it, well dear friend its already 23 minutes past 11 o’ clock.

And I have to wake up early for training and studies so good night till next time



Regards

S R Nair


Renjith and his grandfather were stunned for two very different reasons, Mr. Nair for the fact that his father was such an expressive and romantic person this was a direct opposite from what he

had known his father to be a dignified recluse who gave predominant consideration to the service and his duties as the head of the extended family and as lord of the estates.

Renjith was stunned for the fact that His great grandfather was such a learned man with such good command over English.

As they retired for the night both of them knew that their lives would not be the same from now on



     


Chapter 1 Memories


S

achindra Shanmukham Raman Nair IAS /IFS was going to retire tomorrow,  yes 23.7.2016 he could not  wait  for that  day  he knew it  would be bitter sweet as he was  going to  say  good bye to  his  beloved profession and  a   city  that  he had grown  to love   like his own .

But as the old additive   goes  all  good  things should come  to an end, so  should his  time as the top beruecrat   of  the  Government  of  India , Sir Nair as he was known in  the service  was  known for his old  money charm  and  command over men,  these were   only one  of the  very few qualities  that propelled him  to the top of  the  beaurcratic tree .As he   was going   through   his old boxes he found an   old dusty dairy that belonged to   his father , a smile tugged at his face his father Shanmukham Raman Nair was an Old ICS officer Himself,  so it  was  a  non-brainier   that  he  join the Civil  services .

But now that was in the past, now  he was a retired  civil servant   but that doesn’t  mean that  he was in any way poor , as he was lost in  this train of thought   he felt  two  hands  tugging  at the  dairy  in  his hand .

 The grand old man opened his eyes to behold the youngest of his grandchildren named Renjith they  were  very  close and  young   Renjith  looked up to  his  granddad a lot so much so that he had appeared  for   the   UPSC examinations  and  passed   the 1st prelims and was waiting   on  the dates on his  second  prelims   and was in Delhi  for his leave ,

Renjith  asked  his   granddad,  what  was this  dairy  that he  held  in his hand,  Mr. Nair smiled  and  told that   the dairy  was    that of his  father and  was  passed to him    when his father  died  in 1971.

 That tweaked the young man’s interest in the said   dairy, Renjith was known as the family history buff and resident book worm of the family,   so he pushed his grandfather to divulge the secrets that were held by   his great grandfather’s dairy.

Mr.   Nair also tagged along to see what his   grandson was up to, little did Mr.  Nair  or Renjith  Know  that  they were going  to  uncover  a  painful part of their  family  history ,  for which none of them where ready  .


The frozen tears of Malabar


The frozen tears of Malabar

Chapter 1 Memories 

Chapter 2 Happy days

Chapter 3 Land lord

 Chapter4 Brewing trouble

Chapter 5 by the gods

Chapter 6 Burning ambers

Chapter 7 the bloodshed

Chapter 8 Causalities

Chapter 9 Broken families

Chapter 10 Exodus 

Chapter 11 Restart

Chapter 12 Insult to injury

Chapter 13 roots

Chapter 14 Coming to terms

Chapter 15 justice at last

Chapter 16 in the courts

Chapter 17 the 6th lord 

Chapter 18 towards the future