My father had booked a flat in Jadavpur, Kolkata, around the beginning of 2015. He made most of the payment (around Rs 25 lakh) in cash (it was from his gratuity money he earned working all his life as a teacher in a govt school). Being too simple-minded, he could not beleive he would be deceived ever by anyone. Initally, the builder told us that it was a project being carried out by him alone. Around 2016, the builder took his own life since he swindled money from everyone. Later we got to know, there were other parnters invloved in the project.

This is a deeply personal post. For years, my mother's side of the family has been indebted in a way to Sheikh Hasina's family. Why? Because the PM's uncle Sheikh Abu Naser who was friends with my maternal grandfather is said to have played a role in ensuring my grandfather's family's safe passage to India during the partition of India in 1947. Sheikh Abu Naser was said to have employed many Hindus in his businesses. My grandmum used to tell about how much my grandfather cried when he came to know his friend Sheikh Abu Naser was assassinated along