Professional Documents
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Ramesh Jeewoolall
www.austinmacauley.com
First Published (2015)
Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd.
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Canary Wharf
London
E14 5LB
Acknowledgments
My thanks to Yashwant and Corinne, Shyamal and Mette,
Manjula and Pooshan, Sunil, Roy Ghoorun, Prem Ramrekha
and Roshni Soopramanien.
The author would like to thank Soodesh Jooron, the New
Zealand artist who has drawn the illustration for the cover.
PART I - PREPARATION
1.THE BACKGROUND
fact used for miscellaneous duties and the third one was
reserved for Dev as small office and where he used to receive
his friends. In this room he had placed some sofas and easy
chairs and his friends were feeling very comfortable to be in
his company and the conversation used to take a lot of time of
all of them.
There was no need for Dev to work for a living, he was
rather well off, so was his wife and people who knew him
were surprised that at his age he went into the business of
opening a shop. He was getting past fifty and so many of his
friends and relatives told him that it was time to start thinking
for the onward journey of life, but he brushed aside all such
remarks and he told them to come and have a look at what he
was trying to do.
Many of his friends were skeptical that he would be able
to continue with his business venture for long after having
spent a considerable sum of money in setting up The Shop.
The reason for this attitude was not far to seek, Dev was
known for not doing the same thing for longer than a few
years. He then would move on to something other, but that
also not for long. So long as he does not spend his money
uselessly, nobody is bothered, especially his friends who have
always been his well-wishers.
Dev had been a very intelligent student and after his
secondary school his father, who was a professional in the
legal field, sent him to London so that he would follow his
father in the same profession. The father was thinking that his
son would not have any problem setting up an office. Dev
could work in his Chambers and then take over when the
father retired. But this was not to be. Here you have a very
intelligent young man, coming from a good family, with all
the tools that he would need to make a successful career, but
somebody very high up decided that this was not to be. Dev
threw his lifes chances to the wind, or rather he was made to
throw away what others crave for.
Before Dev proceeded to London for further studies, his
parents wanted to get him married to a girl of their choice,
who was indeed a very nice girl from an equally good family
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