A Tragi Comical Episode In Family Business

The Family business is a subject that comes up with new propositions every day. Yesterday saw a letter written by a brother to one of his brothers. Both are in their sixties, the one who wrote is 65 and the other one who received is 64.

The writer of the letter has made efforts to pick and choose bombastic words and use redundancy in his expressions. I could very well publish the letter or at least a part of it, as an illustration, for my argument how trivia leads to a collapse.

The  65-year-old man writes that he one of the six children of his father had recovered the property, which is their house from the mortgage. The others remained reticent.  He was imprisoned a couple of years back for the management lapses of his brothers. he was pushed out the house by their actions of cutting electricity and water supply. The brothers are living in the family house while he is residing in a rented premises. So goes on the letter which sounds very pathetic. The writer suffered T.B and had a by -pass surgery in 201 all because of the agony he endured. Now the nephew is resorting to the same old tactics.He has cut the electrical connection in the office. he wants to stay away from court and cases as he is 65. But the impudence of his nephew, who is a nincompoop has provoked him to write the letter.  He has refrained from posting the letter to another brother who is the said nephew's father as he has cast evil aspersions on his family to which his elder sister would vouch for it.

His elder sister by now would be 66 now.

The office is a very small one using minimum electricity. The nephew could very well pay the bill which would run into few hundreds. Even more this 65-year-old man could magnanimously offer to pay the bill instead of bemoaning and writing letters. This man who cries hoarse that he lives in a rented premises has allocated two bungalows to his two sons which are no way his own but inheritance.

This family is very familiar to me. The asset rich group has lost most of the properties intheir fights and differences in which the elder sister played a pioneering role. The writer himself has suffered greatly due to his elder sister's greed and deceit.

I was shocked to read the letter. But my initial setback was superseded by the amusement I derived fro the correspondence. This family would not come to terms and would lose what little they are left within few years from now.