For two time meals, he managed with a local dhaba (roadside restaurants). Each meal for two chapattis per meal cost him not more than four annas per meal. (One fourth of a rupee) @one chapatti/per one anna( One sixteenth of a rupee).
Within two days the Manager cum owner cum chef; all in one developed affinity with his new customer Jagar Nath. In view of his little intake, he suggested boarding lodging to Jagar Nath at a contractual fixed rate of Rs.15 per month with no bar on his intake. It suited Jagar Nath. He readily accepted and executed the plan. He calculated that otherwise also it cost him Rs.15 per month, though under fed. The suitable offer assured him bellyful meal plus board and lodging.
The same evening, Jagar Nath with his bedroll under his armpit and the small trunk in hand arrived at his new destination. It was a small place in the first floor, hardly to accommodate one cot. Its ceiling was five feet above its floor. Fridge and fan were not invented for the hotel as yet.
That evening Jagar Nath ate one more than his routine two. The next morning his lunch was double of the routine two. Each passing day, his score showed an upward graph. The manager was committed. He digested his wrong calculation and tolerated the losses incurred.
One day, the manager continued to run from the tandoor to the plate of Jagar Nath to place one more on demand. Tired of the run, the manager now started throwing one more on demand directly on to the plate from the tandoor. The score crossed two dozen. Now the Manager lost the count too. Finally to the demand ‘adhi aur’ the Manager lost all his patience. He went upstairs, packed his bedroll and trunk and threw it on the road. He cancelled his contract and lost all the payment that accrued almost by the fag end of the contractual month.
Jagar Nath is not an exception. 15th December, 2010 I was one of the guests at KC Plaza on the occasion of Ghaer Achuen program hosted by Dr. R K Raina, Joint Director-Senior Scientist RRL Jammu. Dr. R C Dhar (Professor of Chemistry was my invitee. For more than one hour we obliged the boys who offered us fried fish, kebab, dry fruit, and different varieties of veg and non veg. After more than one hour eating and munching, we were asked to have our lunch. Around one of the standing tables, Dr. R C Dhar, Dr.R K Raina, Professor B L Raina, the chief host and I placed our heavily filled plates to justify our lunch. I posed a question to both the Chemistry people as to what mechanism processes all that we dump into this tandoor (belly). Both said in consensus that what the natural tandoor processes in four hours will not get processed in mechanical processor for even twenty years.
Like that of Jagar Nath I too eat much more than my usual diet on marriages may be to justify the payment that my host pays to the contractor. It seems that my tandoor too is sublet on contract.
One day, the manager continued to run from the tandoor to the plate of Jagar Nath to place one more on demand. Tired of the run, the manager now started throwing one more on demand directly on to the plate from the tandoor. The score crossed two dozen. Now the Manager lost the count too. Finally to the demand ‘adhi aur’ the Manager lost all his patience. He went upstairs, packed his bedroll and trunk and threw it on the road. He cancelled his contract and lost all the payment that accrued almost by the fag end of the contractual month.
Jagar Nath is not an exception. 15th December, 2010 I was one of the guests at KC Plaza on the occasion of Ghaer Achuen program hosted by Dr. R K Raina, Joint Director-Senior Scientist RRL Jammu. Dr. R C Dhar (Professor of Chemistry was my invitee. For more than one hour we obliged the boys who offered us fried fish, kebab, dry fruit, and different varieties of veg and non veg. After more than one hour eating and munching, we were asked to have our lunch. Around one of the standing tables, Dr. R C Dhar, Dr.R K Raina, Professor B L Raina, the chief host and I placed our heavily filled plates to justify our lunch. I posed a question to both the Chemistry people as to what mechanism processes all that we dump into this tandoor (belly). Both said in consensus that what the natural tandoor processes in four hours will not get processed in mechanical processor for even twenty years.
Like that of Jagar Nath I too eat much more than my usual diet on marriages may be to justify the payment that my host pays to the contractor. It seems that my tandoor too is sublet on contract.
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