Balu Blackia is Dead Author : Dr. K.S. Kang

 

Balu Blackia is Dead

Author; Dr. K.S. Kang

The news Balu blackia is dead spread throughout the town like a wild fire. Blackia was not his surname as people in smaller towns are rarely called by their surnames nor he acquired that name due to the colour of his skin as he was quite fair. He got this suffix after his name due to his involvement in black marketing of goods on every available opportunity throughout his life. There was no dearth of opportunities for black marketing in this country be it famine, drought, epidemic, pandemic, earthquake, floods and war. So he was popularly or notoriously known as Blackia even to the children of the neighbouring towns also. As it was a profitable activity, though illegal, so he made a good property in the form of land and a nice house in the town. Though these people followed one way of worship or the other as prescribed by the society in which they were born but to most of them Money was their only God and wealth their only religion. This was a similarity in almost every black marketer that united them. It was strange and even miraculous that even children of the town knew he was a black marketer, which is a criminal offence under law yet people do not remember him going to jail, police station or even court for a single day of his life. Though everybody well knew about his illegal activities yet Police and other Law Enforcing Authorities were short sighted so much that he was invisible to them perhaps due to his regular and punctual habit of greasing the palms of the authorities. As he was a member of human society so everybody came to meet his son to his house to condole his death. Daily there was a continuous stream of people going in and coming out of his house, the only people who did not come to condole his death were people of his own trade who were perhaps rejoicing his demise in their dens and secondly they could not take risk of coming into public place for the fear of being spotted by the police authorities.