Joseph lal and Jodhabai ki joint family

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Where they lived was difficult to say  because the ecosystem and behaviour of the town made you feel like you are lost deep somewhere in the land of the mystics.

On 1947, 15th August; The Neighbours could not sleep a wink, for girdhari bhaiya’s  house was being demolished. The house was huge and the girdharis were four. So on the 14th they parted forever. Those who had happened to see them fleeing, they said they had smiles on their faces. Even the adults. Freaky Fred smiles. 

 For about 20 days of part demolition and part renovation The Neighbours woke up to the sudden discovery of what seemed to be like a few hundred people in an enormous chawl as in Andheri Mumbai. The chawl absorbed much of the original house so well that the Friends, foes and the creditors forgot that girdharis ever  existed.  This building seems to have been forever there and was large and weird and confusing. Nobody is known to have been ever been able to count complete  rooms or floors or balconies or Windows, it might have been because it was over occupied or for illiteracy or I wonder  whether anybody ever tried for who the fuck counts windows now a days. At the entrance was a sign board stating “Joseph lal and Jodhabai ki joint family” nobody has ever known to have seen the old couple.

the otherwise dull town exploded. also with inflation. The barbers who were ever idle, now had a waiting period of three days. and the maid servant had become so important that kamla Bai was introduced as a representative of the entire minority in the panchayat. the chawl became a local tourist attraction and was fondly called an ajuba ghar, for it was the epicenter of 3000 rumours; as written on a two legged billboard forced in the ground below the nameplate, which was blue and seemed official; does stating the color of the billboard make me a racist? 

one of the rumours was that in its backyard, which had a little shady fruit tree plantation; under these trees hung defeated kites some tangled, some broken, many still fleeting from one branch to another, some made of gold and some of paper made from marijuana plants. It is said that 3 kids had dared to sneak into the place to collect the buried bounty and never returned. i guess they loved kites too much and committed kite jihad and attained kite heaven . it was also pondered upon whether it was the tuny bulbs that had initiated the interest of the children in something which their parents warned them of. The exterior of the house used to observe every festival through varied tuny bulbs. it was rumored that the house was antichrist/atheist,for the bloody tuny bulbs were on even on Pongal! such pretty decorations has to be the work of the devil!