Diamonds Are for All by Surender Mohan Pathak

Author:Surender Mohan Pathak
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

It was nine o’clock in the evening.

Jeet Singh and Guilo were at Guilo’s favourite watering hole near Edward Cinema in Jambuwadi and were enjoying their drinks, sitting at a corner table.

Jeet Singh had heard from Guilo about the high-tension drama that had been played out at the Sharda Hotel compound in Bandra and he was quite worried by what he heard.

Guilo also told him that his taxi—7983—was already back at Dharavi and handed over to the owner Jayant Dholkia, who promised that the taxi would be put on rental at some place far away from South and Central Mumbai. He couldn’t offer a replacement immediately but he promised that by noon next day, Jeet Singh would definitely get a taxi.

Guilo had already confirmed through D’Costa that some guys were keeping a secret vigil both at their chawl and their taxi stand. The same guy, who was there the previous night asking for Guilo, arrived at the chawl, this time asking about Jeet Singh, too—and was very disappointed to find the lock still hanging on Guilo’s kholi.

They didn’t know the name of that guy even now but now his special identity was well established, in that he had teapot ears.

Now they had both decided to keep away from their chawl and from their Nagpada taxi stand.

‘Jeete,’ Guilo said with a sigh, ‘right now I am reminded of your rental flat at Vithalwadi. It was a perfect place to live anonymously. Remember how useful it turned out for us last month? But you vacated it.’

‘You know very well why I vacated it,’ Jeet Singh said.

‘Yes, I do. You couldn’t continue paying twenty-two thousand rupees rental, no?’

‘Yes. This time if we come into big money, we’ll have a bigger flat on a permanent basis.’

‘You’re bloody dreaming.’

‘Yes, I am. Because big-mouth Guilo said big money won’t stay with me.’

Guilo grinned sheepishly.

‘Tell me one thing,’ Jeet Singh said.

‘What’s that?’

‘Of late, whenever I come here to meet you—come after you or come early and wait for you—I always see your friend John here. This is the first time that he’s not here.’

‘You want him? You miss him?’

‘Oh, no! This thing appeared odd to me, and I’m talking about it.’

‘You’d have better not talked about it.’

‘What do you mean?’

‘Remember the devil and devil is there. Take a look in the direction of the entrance.’

Jeet Singh complied and was immediately perplexed.

Guilo’s friend John was standing a step inside the entry and was looking around with his eyes, panning slowly from one end of the bar to the other. His eyes paused at Guilo and his face brightened. Immediately he took long strides towards their table.

‘Excuse me,’ Guilo said. He stood up and headed for John.

Jeet Singh silently watched him going away.

Guilo met John midway, talked to him for a few moments, and returned, leaving a nodding John behind.

‘He was coming right here,’ he told Jeet Singh, ‘It was good that I saw him first. Now to keep him away, I explained to him that I was in an important meeting with an important guy and didn’t want to be disturbed.

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