Now that I have been selling 15 titles on amazon.com and iTunes.com I decided to go one step ahead and decided to make revenue through audiobooks. Since most of my stories are travelogues, erotic and crime thrillers they lend themselves to the audio format brilliantly. It is also here that three years of my radio experience is coming handy. Being an actor and a voice-over artist it is easy for me to narrate my books myself as I have done sound recordings and even given my voice radio commercials.

The best way was to open an account with acx.com and use their simple uploading formats to turn my narrations into an audiobook. The recording was done in a professional studio and a sound editor who will mix effects, underlays, and song if need be in the audiobook. Once you pay for the production of the audiobook, all you have to do is sign an exclusive or a nonexclusive deal on acx.com. This way you get 25% or 40% in exclusive when your audiobooks sell on platforms like audible.com and iTunes.com. This is a seven years deal in which each party can terminate by giving a few month’s notices. In the exclusive deal, you the original rights owner account sell the audiobook through any other thirds party except audible.com and acx.com. The chances of making money are more here since for every 2 to 3 hrs of audio one can charge up to $10 and even higher with longer duration audio’s.

You can participate in promotional programs, where you get a reward for $50 every time the buyer of your audiobook happens to be an amazon.com and audible.com member also. You will be given a code that you will tag all your promotional posts regards your new audiobook titles.

After you have decided which e-book to convert into an audiobook, you can add a thumbnail which is like the cover of the audiobook, make sure it is catchy and carries actor and narrator name along with the title and the publisher clearly. You need to record one chapter at a time and each bite should not be over 120 min. When you choose the title, you will have to also list the chapters in the index of the book and upload pieces of audio chapter wise brick by brick Make sure you adhere to their recording and sound guidelines. MP3 files are preferred and there is a certain resolution for the jeep field that makes up the jacket of the audiobook. Once upload and details and descriptions are added, you need to record a 5 min excerpt of your audiobook, like a teaser. I am adding an entire 4 min song in one of my audiobooks.

All you need to worry about is paying the sound editor for recording and editing and you can fix up a reasonable rate with him like Rs 500 per hour recording and editing. He can make Rs 4000 odd in each book. After that, the property is used to upload and sell on audible.com. Make sure you record the introduction and have an opener and a closing to your audio file. Best is to let your editor read all the specifications required to make and upload audio on acx.com there are also video’s on this to guide you.

Once you set the price, you can start promoting it through your blog and email lists with the promotional code of the audiobook which will be tased every time you post the title. Send out newsletters to your email list and make a video on this event, upload on the youtube channel and Facebook pages.

View and monitor sales dashboard monthly to check sales. Give free audiobooks away and get them reviewed my book bloggers if need be. Bundle free e-book with an audiobook.

Most important is the payment part of this exercise. Since acx.com does not pay to an Indian account directly and is not available for resident Indians. I amusing a friend ac in the UK, so the payment will be made directly to him, as I am not a US taxpayer they will not withhold all my tax and make payment above$50 into my friend’s UK bank account, who will remit it to my account. Once your tax details and address have been given scarified you are ready to go and get your royalty on time and as dictated by the agreement.

All that is left is the churn out hight quality audiobooks without glitches and hiccups. In a moderately advanced studio. Just make. sure your covers are attractive and descriptive. Go out now and start making money on audiobooks, use acx.com and audible now.

Once you have the initial story or the book that you need to build the screenplay on, you need to figure about the key characters around whom the story revolves, these are generally actors who have a line or two. Once you have the Primary, Secondary and support characters sorted out, you need to start visualizing the book as it was a scene. A lot of cues to the background location, dress and time of day will be in the book itself.

Opening 

The opening of the series should have punch and should hook people ideally keep a hook at the beginning and the end of each series. Hooks are great attention grabbers, you can start an initial scene with two couples making love as people peer at them in the act through their bedroom window. Or maybe a man in a room covered in blood with a knife, as he moves we see a dead body stabbed to death in front of him. These are drastic visuals that get the attention of the audience.

Scene Writing 

You need to write the scene first, witch has cues on which the director and cinematographer can work on. It should be a paragraph or so that explains the setting, reason, and situation of the scene. You need to see the characters covers under certain settings and under a certain mood. Also built-in it should be how the actors and characters are feeling and how the camera will move from one screen to another or for that matter form one actor to another. These are cues for the cinematographer.

Dialogues

Then you fill in the dialogues, again look for punches more descriptive words, use slags of local lingo depending where the scene or the story is set in. Use sharp words and experiment with street dialects also. Keep it humorous, jokes, wisecracks, oddball stories, daily masala there is a lot of inspiration out there. But keep the flavor local and relevant. Try and pick as much from the book itself, but you can add some of your jokes and punches also. The screenplay writer has that liberty and can come up with good suggestions and improvements in the initial story.

Length 

You need to keep the duration of the screenplay in mind 20 min to 30 min are the ideal lengths for web series screenplays.

As I sit half intoxicated by the religiousness of Barnes and gaze at the Durga Temple form my hotel window, a lady from the temple below looks up towards me. This is a city of temples within four of them within walking distance from my hotel room. It has been a quiet day I wrote some in the morning and a bit in the afternoon and then just meandered through the day eating my lunch most of the time or chewing gum. We could get some translation work my friends tell me and I have asked Tiwari and his BHU mates to translate my book yes sir I killed my dad in Hindi. That would be a good move as Indian languages are available in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Marathi, and Bengali. I wish to do a Malayalam translation of this book also. As I muse the fate of my book on my father’s case and presented as a son’s grief. The book has got a fantastic review and it is all an in house effort right to the publishing and now a Hindi and Malayalam version where I have asked Tiwari to add his part of the story also, as he witnessed those horrific days it will be a Hindi new edition of the book. We will sell it at the same price and give the extra chapters as a bonus.

I am enjoying working again and my writings have kept me busy, I would want to walk a bit more and be more active, could lose a few kilos for sure. But I feel relaxed in comfortable surroundings. The creative process I am loving that and the tempo of my writing has increased. Kashi has a flavor unmatched by any other, the busy dusty narrow streets, a plethora of temples, flower and vegetable sellers, Paan shops and lots of Bicycles and rickshaws. The afternoons are hot here in Kabir Nagar but the nights can have a chilly feel to it. There is no moisture in the air and the climate in dry as the winter approaches. Modernization can be seen in the shape of malls, eateries, wifi, the Yogi government has done a great job of reaching out to then people and making them believe their message.

With four books all ready to be launched, I have done a lot of writing, I am also attempting my first complete novel Casino Carnival. My next books will be Hamari Gyano! , Webbing the web series Web, The Holy Trinity that should about do till the new year. After this is all I have to amuse myself during the day. I made my first Rs 10,000 in book royalty and commissions this year and it has been a one year journey, with more than 300 books sold so far across platforms.

It has gone cooler as we approach November, but it is the festival of lights start I wish to see in Ayodhya, I know it will be a marvelous spectacle. The diet has changed as I am eating only vegetarian food all the day dal tadka and Shahi paneer, I just keep changing the gravy and it’s a new paneer dish like paneer makahnwala, Kadhai Paneer. It’s sloppy at times as the gravy dribbles down my lips and on the bed at times. But I like the food its not much variety but it is very nutritious and would help me lose weight I guess.

I am told try the paan in the Keshav paan Bandar in BHU he supplies paan to the PM Modi.I will enjoy the famous Pappu ki chai which is the best tea in town.

Varanasi, Kashi, and Banaras the city has so many names, but I feel very peaceful here, in its slowness the heart of Indian spirituality is embedded. Banaras a city where people come to die from all over the world. The city of Moksha, the city of death, the city where every Hindu wants to cremate their dead. The city situated alongside the banks of the Ganges is full of ghat’s, in devnagrk Ghat is a series of steps leading to a water body which is the river itself as it flows across the plains, purifying all with its magical and healing waters. Ghat also means a steep hill but in our context, it is a embankment and series of steps leading to the water of Ganges. There are 88 ghats in Banaras. The two ghats exclusively made for cremation are the Harishchandra Ghat and the Manikarnika Ghat. These are exclusively made fro cremation as there has been a live cremation happening they’re for centuries on end.

Raja Harishchandra who was a noble king and fell from the grace of the gods, hell broke loose in his life as he lost his son and his crown. He spent years at the ghats burning the dead bodies and lighting up the funeral pyres. God’ was placed with his penance and truth. They rewarded him for this and gave him his kingdom and the life off his son back. The Ghat is thus named after that noble king.

Manikarnika Ghat is also a cremation ghat and the oldest of all, it is named after the Queen Rani Jhansi Laxmi Bai. The legend has it it was on the shores of this Ghat that Sati immolated herself due to the humiliation of Shiva by her family. Then Shiva held the burnt body of Sati and started grieving. Vishnu consoled him. And cut the body of Sati into 51 waves of peace by his Sudarshan Chakra. This peace fell on earth and wherever they fell was called a Shakti Peeth a place which has the energy of the goddess divine, Shiva’s consort.

It is said that at the Manikarnika Ghat Sati’s ear kundal fell. The rest of the ghats are meant for Pooja and bathing strictly and are not for cremation.

One can also visit the ashram of Keena Ram baba the head of the Aghodi tradition, the flag bearer of their sect. He was also known to be the reincarnation of Shiva and was in possession of occult dark powers obtained through siddhi and meditation.

Lastly is the Assi Ghat the southernmost Ghat of banners which is full during the festive season as more than 2200 people participate in the festival that takes place here. It is famous for it’s boating and now even hot air ballooning. For a few quid, you can get a birds-eye view of the ghat through a hot air ballon drive.

I breathe easy here and there is quite a tranquility about this slow yet very populated medieval town, which carries in it’s bowling the essence of the Hindu faith and the nector of its many stories.

Daily Work

One of the things effective artist does is daily work. They work every day and schedule their time accordingly, they make sure they put in the daily work on their art and use it to produce a new piece of music, writing, painting or even a symphony. Make sure I write every day and at least spend two to three hours a day actually doing it. One needs to do the work in a deck-lend manner and do it repeatedly over a period of time.

Volumes vs Perfection :

Make sure you have a huge volume of work, concentrate on getting your work completed and out there for people to critique. You need a large volume of work all the greats like Picasso and Mozart had made a large number of paintings, drawings, and symphony, although we only remember a hand full of their successes. Don’t hate time in idle procrastination and try and reach for ultimate perfection because you know you will not get there. So get work volumes of it out and do it diligently.

Commit daylight robbery ;

The effective artist knows the art of stealing from other artists, you can call it inspiration, spark or just plain theft of an idea or a thought. Creativity is the act of stealing someone else idea and making it your own. It is better to steal one idea from many different sources and artist then to steal an idea from one artist, that would be plagiarism. But stealing is a naak a successful and effective artist needs to learn.

Practice doesn’t make you perfect :

Most people think that the more you practice the more you improve and become productive. But pure practice is not enough after some time practicing just gets you no incremental result. Procrastination also becomes a huge part of practicing. Rather than, that I believe in conscious learning where I was aware of what I actually was doing. Be more aware of your actions and work as you are doing it more here and now.

Restfullness

Creatively can only take place in a restful place when you are relaxed. So rest is very important where you ate your mind off the immediate subject and put it elsewhere. Breaks of sorts, a walkabout in the park or engage your mind in some other activity and task. Stephen King would write a novel in 3 months and then go for a holiday for 6 weeks when he returned he would re-read his manuscript. Now it felt he was reading the story from the point of view of the first reader. These states of restfulness can give you great insights. These you can get singing in the shower or over the toilet seat, a lot of ideas come in the loo.   Take rest and relist your work with a new yes and newer perspective.

Get Feedback

The effective artist seeks feedback all the time and lots of it, they are hungry for feedback. They seek it from others and that is how they are able to seek feedback. They can thus improve their work and are able to connect better with their followers and admires. They are interested in what you have to say honestly about the work of art they have created.

Create what you love

Work on what you love the most, the topics and themes that excite you and motivates you to focus more. Look at things you enjoy the most, I enjoy traveling and writing so I became a blogger and then a published author. I look into stories that excite me and those that are real. I delve into the works of artists who inspire me and issues that are deeply connected to me. So my art ends up becoming a lot like me. Your heart has to be in what you are doing as an artist.

The Durga Kund Temple: Kashi 

I wanted to get out of my hotel room and wander off into the narrow, dusty by-lanes of Kabir Nagar in Banaras. It was 4;00 pm and before the sunset I wanted to pray and take blessings of the Goddess Durga, the fearsome avatar of Parvati, who slays demons while riding a tiger, she had eight hands and carries a sword, a trident, a lotus flower, a sea shell and much more. The temple was built here to worship her and praise the Goddess for her valour as she won a righteous war here in Kashi. The temple is red in color which is the color of the goddess. Its inner sanctum is square with the temple and the idol kept inside. In front of the temple, you have the two main flower sellers who sell flower garlands, lilies, roses, and marigold. I decided to take a short interview with the flower seller called Jai Prakash who has been selling flowers as Pooja samagri since his father’s time. “ Sir this is a very famous temple daily 15,000 people come to the temple to do prayers .” I was mazed that is quite a number, then I venture into the temple with the flower offerings and a garland as well. I went into the square-shaped courtyard and climbed the temple steps so that I could slap the brass bells.

I prayed for a while and bowed down towards the idol as if on cue the Pujari on the left understood me to be a rich man, he must have got the clue from my clothes and my large leather sling bag, my fathers also give it away that I am Urban from a big city. Instantly he took me under his wing and took me to the idol directly from another door on the side of the temple. I got a back door entry and a front view seat to Ma Durga.  I put Rs 500 in the wooden daan Pete and the Pujari looked pleased he stood beside me and said a mantra, then he asked me to prostrate in front of the idol and offer flowers and prayers. I duly obliged and did exactly as told. On the way out the pujari painted my forehead with turmeric paste and a large red tikka. The man wanted more for his endeavor, I declined and walked out of the caged gate into the fresh air of the courtyard. I decided to do a Parikrama and took five rounds of the square courtyard, circling the temple.

The Mythical Story of Durga Kund

The legend of how the temple got built here in the 18th century says that there was once a king of Kashi Dhriva Sandhi who had two wives the older was Manorama and the younger was Lilavati. He had two sons Sudarshana born from Manorama and Satrijith for the younger Lilavati. Once the King went on a hunting expedition and got killed by a lion. With the king’s death the ministers decided that the elder son Sudarshan should be king, but the younger wife Lilavati was opposed to this. She with the help of her father Yathajith decided to kill Sudarshan. The older wife Manorama got wind of the plan and ran away with her son to take shelter with the great sage Bharadwaj

The great saint asked Sudarshan to worship goddess Vaishnavi, who was associated with Kama Shakti. The goddess was pleased and gave him a boon of bow and arrow that would help him win great wars.

The king of Kashi Subahu had a beautiful daughter by the name of Shashi Kala. When she was asleep goddess Vaishnavi appeared in her dreamed and asked her to marry Sudarshana. A grand Suyamvar took place where Sudarshan’s brother Satrijith was also present with his grandfather Yathajith. Yathajith threatened the king with death if he did not get his daughter married off to his grandson Satrijith. The father Subahu was afraid and was about to relent when Shashikala intervened and explained her dream to her father. She told him the goddess Vaishnavi will protect them and their families.

On that same day, Subahu married off his daughter to Sudarshana. As news of this got out Yathajith surrounded Kashi and Subahu and there was a battle fought. As Yathajith and Sudarshan approached each other the Goddesses Vaishnavi appeared and killed both Satrijith and Yathajith, thus bringing victory to Kashi . on the request of the King she stayed back to bless the city near the water Kund where a temple was erected to worship goddess Durga.

On the way out I was offered Prasad, coconut, a flower garland, and a red chunni were wrapped around me, like a protect tire shield. It was the skill of Tiwari that got the perfect shot of me draped in the mata’s red chunni holding the Prasad. Indeed Chunni ke niche kya hei! Well, you guessed it aim under the red chunni. Anuj Tikku doing a tour of the three holy cities of Kashi, Ayodhya, and Mathura only on www.tikkustravelthon.in Watch my live videos and see me temple trekking across Kashi, celebrating Diwali in Ayodhya, doing the dandiya in Mathura at the Krishna Janam Bhoomi.

The Durga Kund temple is situated in Kabir Nagar in Banaras city. It has two very prominent temples in its vicinity that are the Sankat Mochan Mandir, a temple made to worship lord Hanuman and The Tulsi Manas temple where saint Tulsi Das wrote the Tulsi Das Ramayana, which was his version or takes on the Valmiki Ramayana. It is said that the original scriptures reside in the temple. The translation took place in the 16th century so that the masses could understand it. Durga Kund is the temple for the worship of the Sherun Wali mat-a. It was made after Durga saved Kashi Naresh as she fought a battle during the Svayamvar of his daughter. The temple was built to honor the Goddess. The temple is painted red in color and has a water Kund where worshippers can bathe, this is holy water for the pilgrims. The temple was constructed in the 18th century and seeks the blessing of the Goddess Durga to protect the city. The temple is open from 8 am to 9 pm at night and has a steady stream of worshippers, the entry to the temple is free.

The Sankat Mochan Mandir is dedicated to Lord Hanuman and one can see many monkeys roaming around the temple area, the outside area is littered with shops and small tarp’s selling flowers to Pooja samagri. It is also built by Sri Goswami Tulsi Das ji and it is said here he had the vision of Hanuman while he was writing the Ramcharitra Manas. The scripture is written in Avidhi and carries new stories of the journey of Lord Rama. As it were Tulsi Das added a new flavor to an old epic. There is a music festival also performed in the temple called the Sankat Mochan Sangeet Samahro where devotees come and worship and sing hymns to the glory of the lord. The Tempel was built in the sixteenth century and stands tall as one of the pride of Banaras.

The screenplay building phase and getting book reviews from bloggers for your book are both very exciting phases while you build and tightened the story into a screenplay. I hired Krishna to write the screenplay, my main goal was to narrow down on a dozen or so characters and keep the essence of the campus story intact. I had to also make sure that the main dialogues and the pushes were also kept in the screenplay although the writer used his imagination also, after all, it was the screenplay writer who suggested that we let the old Rashmi Verma play the role of the little girl, like Sri Devi in the film Sadma.

‘She is just not a whore, she has guts and stands up against the hypocrisy of men, a true feminist at that time twenty years back .” Krishna lamented .” But we have to have the dialogue when Toss Bansal  says haar ladki Rashmi Verma nahi Hoti Kisi ke Saath bhi khol kar khadi ho jati thi .” I gave my two-bit as we both built it together. The elected characters were itched out and divided into primary and secondary characters. The length of the screenplay was kept at 20 min each that is a standard of the industry I guess. Here I got my first feedback about my story and became sure that I had something there, maybe a spark that could be light. We would spend days thinking and jerking off on the potential start cast, who would be the Rashmi Verma,’ Tapsee Pannu, Anushka or maybe a totally new face .” Anupriya yaar she was a crush of mine but she never reciprocated my love .” I sighed and told Krishna .” Ab jo dus Saal Pehle hath nahi Ayi wo ab kya hath aye gi .” I got a retort.

I made sure my role of mama molester was perfectly etched including the mirror and doll scene in the book, I was able to write a song for it also .’ All the lady book bloggers have said it is offensive to women and should treat women with respect, there will be a controversy on this issue I am sure .” I had warned my writer, who is looking to make more money on my story,” Bhai I will try and pitch it to some platforms I know, but I will share money with you, you will get paid for the book and get your role .’ Krishna was not satisfied with his Rs 75000 remuneration and was wanting more for his hard work . Its all about the money honey remind of the headline of an article Shobha De had written on my Dad’s murder case it was also called “ It’s all about the money Honey .”

I am yet to record for my song but I and the music director Manish pat our backs for getting the web series theme song right,” No no it is perfect 80’s Bollywood dhamaka song, Sujata has sung it well .”

‘It is like Jo jeeta wohi Sikandar a college romance kind of story, she can be like Pooja Bedi the campus hotti .” One producer had imagined my story to be like the Amir Khan hit film. The good part is whoever I am meeting with my project is hearing me well and most also recognize me from my earlier acting days. I keep spinning my yarn and showing my plan, who and what will click will remain a Mistry .’ Now how can you make a women gate fucked by ten guys when actually she screwed only five, I thought I was dirty , you should see some of my prospects talk , everyone wants eyeballs , censorship be dammed , that is how this industry is flourishing once the censorship come sin they will have issues .’ I told my friends about the goings-on of the industry. Ajay Devgan ’s Drishyam is another film people are enjoying .” The web series space is still hot and would remain so for the next three years as digital formats will grow and 5G will further push the envelope. Advanced and fast data transmission and increased bandwidth will make sure you have 24hr entertainment in your palm anytime anywhere. Technology has changed the game in the way content is being served and watched. This has lead to the diverse camera and editing tools and techniques which never existed the film 300 and Bahubali are examples of that. Cutting edge technology tools, realistic locations and a kick-ass realistic story with sex, passion and a message will hit the bullseye in the web content space. You just need to partner with the right creative, marketing, and commercial people. This takes time as people are often busy or unconcerned as they have many projects of their own going on .” Why write sleaze books like I also slept with Rashmi Verma, we are not so bold as a society and people will object to such vulgarity, I mayor well-wisher that s why I am telling you this.’ My Bua lamented me over the phone and asked me to stay away from controversies as I have had many before too. the only thing that takes you forward is your passion for your story and project that’s all, finance will follow atlases that’s what Mukesh Ambani would make us believe.

When you go about pitching your web series story or screenplay make sure you know what the right platforms for your kind of story are. As far as my web series is considered the right OTT platforms should be hotstar.com voot.com zee5 Alt Balaji and Vishesh Films, these were the best suited for my type of youth-oriented erotic campus story with fun and quirkiness and lots of swearing. There are many other platforms in the market intact there are around 20 odd OTT platforms to choose from in the market. Then you need a production house that has made content for the OTT platforms you have zeroed in on.

If you have direct contact inside the platform use that first, you can also try to go through a production house that specializes in web series and have a good track record and pitch to them. They can buy the story and the concept from you right away and start building a web series, there is no need for you to put your own money. You can just sell the book the story and the screenplays upfront with all the rights to them.  You can then be part of their team on the creative side and build the project with them. Each production house has producers who scout for a good story idea to build digital content on. The production house has the resources the right equipment and manpower to execute a web series project and one has to make sure you assess that before you pitch to them.

At times you will be basked to build on the current screenplay or further add a few more episodes. The producer might want some more dialogues added or tweaked, all this can be done by the writer who did the screenplay, as the originator of the story and they book you also own the screenplay. You can add the cost incurred when you sell the final rights of your book.

Make sure you don’t throw your story to everyone for a pitch, keep a limited target a hand full of platforms and production houses as you don’t want your story going stale. So finding that someone to bite the bullet can be a task but once the first meetings are through things begin to take shape.

Showcase the book reviews to them that will give them the flavor of what the readers are saying about the story and the book. Share the sales of your e-book to them and your blog statistics also.

Above all, you should be able to connect with the people you are working with and if that happens it will become easier to build on your dream, so keep personal chemistry in mind especially when you are making a creative product like a web-series.

Mumbai alas nothing has changed yet everything looks transformed, new bars, restaurants, cafe’s eateries you name it a lot has changed. The theatres the movies, the rickshaws, the noise, the lights, the traffic, the struggle for survival. I am getting the true feel of the city that has a loiter around Lokhandwala, Juhu, Goregaon, Andheri into the back alleys of Aram Nagar, and the studios of Mhada. I have seen the rains of Mumbai and the heat of autumn, the entire city is going to sleep due to the festive season and I am yet to find my first acting job. Bumped into some actors from the sets of Torbaaz we had dinner together at a local Lebanese joint, they were with me in the shoot at Kirkistan. It seems the Afghani actors are in great demand “ I just shoot for Panipat a period action film, great going .” Brabarik explained, he was a great big tall Afghan who lives in Sweden. ‘ Try the auditions in aram Nagar, you might get some work .” I got some advice from my friends.

I have been eating out mostly the same old restaurants Calcutta Club. The irresistible charm of using the auto again beats everything. I donated Rs 50 to hungry women with a kid, who was asking to be feed,’ You are a good man, kind only a good man will help a poor and needy like you just did .” He smiled and was glad to see my venture of kindness .” Yes, random acts of kindness, it’s what’s most important, it will come back one day or the other unexpectedly as a reward .’ He lamented. I took a pack of cigarettes and the man remarked,” Aaj Kaun kiski help Karta hei sir .” The man-made an observation .” Saab number total ho raha hei sir, upar .”

Still waiting for a call from a production house for a story sitting session. Anticipating for things to happen after Diwali I guess. As I move towards Benares and Ayodhya in search of Ram and to be part of the great Diwali Festival. My web series still lives on with me as I look for someone to bite the bullet. Ramu seems to be on a shoot as it is difficult to catch any big fry not now not yet. I spoke to my old servant boy chootu he is still driving cars for a new master now since I sacked him after selling the flat in Mumbai. The bugger has two kids and has put on weight just like me, chatted with him for a while,” I may be coming to Mumbai again, I am looking for work, be ready to work for me again .” I said , he was good and loyal servant and I wish to keep him again if I have to spend more time in the city.

Web spin the yarn, spin the web. The first phase of the Mumbai Chapter comes to an end.