by indi | Jun 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
A couple of weeks after having been eaten out of home (“Little” Lawrence-Part I) I hopped on to my bike for the short ride across the valley from Panniar to my new abode Gundumallai bungalow on Surianalle Estate with my meagre possessions following on a tractor...
by indi | Jun 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
This yarn dates back to 1977, on the cusp of my transfer to Surianalle which was situated on the opposite side of the valley from Panniar Estate on which property I was at that time being nurtured by Abid. A virtual green horn being metamorphosed into becoming a...
by indi | Jun 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
While I don’t remember exactly when I took this giant technological step, if memory serves me right this would have been sometime in 1987 which is when I was the manager at Limbuguri Estate. Back then, all overseas business from all the corporate offices located in...
by indi | Apr 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’m terrible with dates. While I need to shovel loads of fish down my gullet to simply remember even my own date of birth date, the one date which is firmly etched in my memory is the 1st of January 1978. I was a young pudian (green horn) SD (Sina Dorai = Assistant...
by indi | Apr 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
After two years on Panniar as an Assistant Superintendent to a PD (Periya Dorai = Estate Superintendent) Abid Khan, whom I looked up towards as a father figure, I was transferred to one of the other Malayalam Plantations properties in the High Ranges – Surianalle...
