The Garlic Lineage
Garlic ,allium sativum, lasun call it what like. Garlic, the cloved herb. Still on the topic, here's a pungent question Can you survive on two handfuls of garlic? Lets further the question or let me put it in another way lets add some garlic in to some simmering oil. Can your family survive on two handfuls of Garlic?
I thought not.
I know, a family who does and there millions more who survive on a lot less.
My story takes, you to Mumbai , one of India's and actually to think about it one of the World’s Mega cities, with a population to 16 million, Bombay is one of the largest concentrations of human being anywhere, if New York is the city of 8 million stories ... Mumbai is a moving mass of images sometimes to blurry for your cognitive senses to comprehend.
Bandra, The Queen of the Bombay’s suburbs , is known for her glitzy inhabitants,
faces the vast expanse of the Arabian Sea, Mumbai's wallpaper , a canvas for the sun and the clouds.
There on the end of Carter Road, one of Bandra sea facing promenade a kolhi village.
The kolhis by occupation are fisher folk and were the original denizens of Mumbai. They can be found everywhere along India's western seaboard form Gujarat to Malabar.

If pungency of smell is any category on which I was to judge this article there is a smell more pungent then that of garlic . . That is the smell of drying fish...and the village is full of it.
Any now since I have now giving a long enough introduction, I will go directly to the story...
Here lives a family, one of many... They are different, no they don't live in the neighborhood slum, no they don't live in the tall apartment blocks that line carter road, they live in pipe... A pipe abandoned by the BMC it lies by the seaside. But wait people live here, a family of seven. Parents and there five children. Three boys and Two girls.. No friends they donot go to school, not a full time school at least...
AND for the finale this family survives on the earnings ... they get from selling two handful of garlic...
How do they manage you ask, I ask my question that too...
They barter what ever they have for some rice, flour...lentils. And the rest they leave to God.
When I say leave to God I mean it literally. They sit outside a temple (the children) at least hoping to get a free meal from a passer by...


They came to Bombay. May be looking for brighter future, may be forced due to famine or socio economic reasons from.... Now. They live this existence...of just mere existence.

What are their children going to do when they grow up...?
While they have a brighter future in new India.
Or will they will be entrapped in this garlic lineage.

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Here an email I got , I thought a conartist willever write to me....I'm so exited..I'am going to reply let see what happens>>>>!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From : weli ali
Sent : Wednesday, March 03, 2004 10:22:52 PM
To : weliali222@hotmail.com
Subject : FROM MR WELI

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FROM THE DESK OF WELI ALI
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER (U T B)
FOREIGN REMMITTANCE DEPT.
UNION TOGOLIASE DE BANQUE

My Dear,

I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remmittance department of union banque du togoliase, Iam writing following the impressive information about you through one of my friends who runs a firm in your country, He assured me of your capability and reliability to champion this business opportunity.

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $10.5m dollar(ten million five hundred thousand US Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foriegn customer who died along with his entirer family in plane crash.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the decease as indicated in our banking guidlines and laws, but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died along side with him at the plane clash leaving no body behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my department now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the decease for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we dont want this money to go intothe bank treasury as unclaimed bill.


The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transfered into the bank treasure as unclaimed fund, The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a togoliase citizen cannot stand as next of kin to a
foreigner.

We agree that30% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60% will be for me and my collegues, There after I and my collegues will visit your country for disbursment according to the percentages indicated.

Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arrange, you must apply first to the bank as relation or next or kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where in the money will be remitted.

upon receipt of your reply, i will send to you by fax or email the text of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hicth-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.

You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.
AND ATTANTVE E-MAIL (weliali4554@yahoo.co.uk)

Yours faithfully,
WELI.



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Thats Pune India for you,.
A place I will call home for the nxt 4 years

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