The Friendly Lawyer Next day at precisely 1pm Aswarti Nayar presented herself to the Harsha Terrace Garden Restaurant reception and inquired if Raj Patil had arrived. She was ushered to the table where Raj and Anupam were seated with papers out on the table discussing business transactions of the morning. When they saw her heading for the table, they quickly retrieved papers and put them … Continue reading Ratnagiri – Chapter 2
Surprise Law Case Raj Patil walked through his ripening crops of alphonso mangos. It was that time of the year when crops flowed to the markets through intermediatory merchants to the rest of India and the world, and he’d offered puja that morning to prevent an early monsoon interfering with the latter part of the harvest. Once the monsoon started that was the end of … Continue reading Ratnagiri – Chapter 1
Kindness Repaid “Lucy I’m heading to town as soon as you can join me. I want to show you all the changes that have happened in this small town you remember which has spread enormously since you left and I need a trip to the hairdresser as I see grey hair has started to peep out under the color again. We need to look at … Continue reading Lucy’s Makeover – Chapter 3
Opportunity Knocks About that time Dr. Terrance Claridge, the only doctor in this small town was joined by his son Ricky who’d departed fifteen years earlier to take up medical studies and worked his way and studied medicine. He was helped in a limited way by his father as the doctor charged a reasonable fee for service and treated the very poor for free. The … Continue reading Lucy’s Makeover – Chapter 2
From Abuse to Kindness Lucy sat lethargically at her desk in class. She and her siblings had not had much sleep that night and while she liked the teacher and tried her best to concentrate it was just too much for her as she fought off the desire to close her eyes and get some sleep. She knew teacher miss Clover who lived down the … Continue reading Lucy’s Makeover – Chapter 1
Bert’s Final Family Integration Murni handed the phone to Bert who suddenly felt apprehensive as he didn’t know the correct protocol in these things Indonesia style. “I’m sorry to disturb you sir. I didn’t realize it would be the middle of the night when Murni handed me the phone. Sir I have a request. I love your daughter and would like to marry her if … Continue reading Ethnic Reconnection -Chapter 4
Marriage Proposal At eight in the evening an excited daughter burst into Abyasa’s office where he was finalizing work for the day and produced the letters. “Look what I got from Bert father.” She began to reread to her father commencing with the first dated letter and Abyasa held up his hand. “Those are your private correspondence daughter, and you should not be sharing.” But … Continue reading Ethnic Reconnection -Chapter 3
Reluctant Return The Chaniago company guest house was a sprawling complex built in colonial style with wide verandas and high roof to let the air circulate with fans slowly whirling in each room to keep air circulating. It was decorated in Javanese style and had everything to make the stay comfortable with servants at the beck and call of guests. Bert luxuriated in the warm … Continue reading Ethnic Reconnection -Chapter 2
Chance meeting in Jakarta Bert Baas sat at the Jakarta airport studying a booklet he’d purchased before leaving the UK. He’d purchased this out of curiosity to see if he could recall any of the Indonesian language, he’d heard frequently used in his grandfather’s home for this book was an English to Bahasa Indonesia dictionary. Grandfather had lived in Surabaya East Java in Indonesia during … Continue reading Ethnic Reconnection -Chapter 1
Rachel’s New Name Carole looked at her watch, she’d promised to phone her husband during a one-hour break between surgeries and this was the best time to do that. She turned to Rachel. “Rachel, can you continue with the gardening while I make a phone call to my husband. He has a break from surgery now. I’ll have to do it inside the house as … Continue reading Forgiveness Rewards – Chapter 4
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