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Memoirs of Manja

Part 5

 

The resident of Vasco red light area prostitute Sukanya originally hails from Gulbarga in Karnataka. Naked poverty was dancing around her because of that she was gang raped. A Muslim youth made her to believe to get a job and brought her Behana beach Vasco. There she was made to sleep with many in the red light area. When I heard her story without uttering a word I allowed her to stay in my cottage. Suresh felt very happy. In the coming days she stayed with us as a believable woman.
 
Because of this, my enthusiasm doubled. Now, coming out of this underworld I would wish to tell one thing under these circumstances. A thief, a bandit or a prostitute wants to have this title on his or her own and doing the same thing they will show it to the world. In this endeavor they will always be prompt wearing white clothes and they will never do the black deeds. They will never ever dream of cheating anybody. The humanism and the kindness what they have can never be founded in anybody. Because of this I wanted to finish my life staying in this field itself. After all what is life? Love, belief and humanity are the only virtues packed in our life. It's only here which you can see. So I decided to stay here only.

After Sukanya joined us she started behaving so well that even the bastard will show some mercy on her. Suresh decided to marry her. But it did not happen. Eventually it ended in a tragedy about which I shall narrate later on. From no hook and corner they were not able to speak English. But in our business the language of English is most important. Our business was only with the WHITES.

In the year 1991, on January 26, the Republic day an incident took place. This incident introduced me to the underworld in the whole of Goa. It was 4 p.m. in the evening. I was smoking Ganjaa on Baga beach with a Brazilian girl. She had a habit of having tattoo on her body for which she was very popular in Goa. She was a good painter and used to paint only while she used to take intoxicant. She became very close to me the first time I met her. I had a nature where in I could mesmerize anybody. I asked her to join my business for which she accepted without any hesitation. While we were having a drag of Ganjaa a local goon came to us, who was well built and had come with an intention to "ROLLCALL" us. He introduced himself as Rosario, a native of Maharashtra.


Even though he was not a rowdy, he had a very good contact with the underworld. He came to me and started shouting at me. "Arsehole! How come being an outsider you are doing this business over here? You got to give me one lac as rollcall. And for every month you got to pay me 25000 bucks. You better think about it. If you try to act too smart in this regard you will be butchered or you will land yourself in jail." "I will tell you everything about this by tomorrow morning".

After spending a lot of time with the Brazilian girl I took her to my cottage where I introduced her to my associates. She was a daughter of a farmer and her name was Carol. She wanted to be a partner of us for which we all readily agreed because it could be convenient for us to deal with the whites. In the evening at 8 p.m. we all went to The Western Calone Bar, which was run by an Anglo-Indian.

"It is well over 6 months since we have been in Goa. Police may arrest us on suspicion and upon this the bastard has also threatened us. We have money, but to part away the amount was a question of self-prestige to us. It is just like bending the knees before him. If at all we didn't pay him the amount what can he do to us? Anyhow we also don't have the stock at present. What he can do? But being outsiders what shall I do if he tries to finish us?" I discussed with my associates.

Upon this they started giving their own suggestions for which I didn't agree. I was perturbed and there was no more ganjaa in my pocket. I was totally confused at that moment. Later on I decided to purchase a weapon. I knew Subbu Shetty who was involved in Bombay underworld. As his associates were in Goa I bought a POINT 32 revolver for 50000 bucks with which I got a packet containing 500 cartridges. I practiced till I emptied 300 cartridges. It was for the first time I handled a revolver and after practicing so much I had belief in myself to finish that bastard.

As I told earlier about the Wednesday fare I decided whatever might go wrong I wanted to be a noted person by attacking Rosario. I asked Suresh to be at one end with the dragger (which was gifted by Malli Bhai). The innocent Subhash was asked to stand at the other end with a weapon. For this operation Subhash had brought two guys from Mangalore. Even though I didn't know them I asked them to be a part of this operation. We waited till 12 noon and were very bored and so thought of having some food. As we were thinking about this that bastard arrived with his associate.

As everything was preplanned I invited him. As soon as he came near me he started yelling at me saying, "What the hell can you do to me? Have you brought the cash?" At this moment I pulled out the revolver from my pocket !!!!!

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To be continued….

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