Friday, September 26, 2008

Jayabati Barik - strange case

Pretty strange ... really strange thing happens to me for last couple of days. Somebody named Jayabati Barik from ManickTala keeps calling me on my mobile number from her reliance hand set. I don't know her, neither she. Actually M/s Jayabati looking for somebody called Mr. Bhadra. I don't know who is Mr. Bhadra and what is the relation/connection of Mr Bhadra to M/s Barik. And it happens for last 3/4 days. Why so? - Actually somehow Mr. Bhadra's number matches very nicely with me except the 4th digit from last. In my number this is 8 ..... however Mr Bradra's is 0. So I assume she makes 8 always in place of 0! And I assume that she might either be elderly ... or she might have problem in eye sight. But it's somehow disturbing to get wrong calls always. Btw, she is always very gentle and I can feel an urgency into her voice ... something like she wants to contact Mr Bhadra fervently.

So being desperate, I called her today asking why she keeps on calling me knowing that I'm not Mr Bhadra. And what I heard from her over phone is somehow makes me worried!

She gets a little shop and a home at ManickTala which somebody (probably promoter) want to snatch away from her. And they attach her physically due to which she lost her eye-sight! I frozen ... I've heard those types, read those in news-paper, but never talk to some person of that sort earlier (assuming she is telling me the truth). Due to her bad vision (or no vision!) she makes a mistake when dialing. And even she does not know Mr Bhadra. She only knows that Mr. Bhadra is such a fellow in this otherwise mundane world who is eagerly help people in such situations.

Though I have not got any answer why the mistake only makes at the last digit! Why not other digits! Or may be the case she makes mistake in all the digits and different people are getting calls from her worriedly asking ... "Mr. Bhadra bolchen?" (Is that Mr Bhadra speaking?).

So I offer her a work around. We all know the middle 5 button of mob key pad is slightly high to make it comprehensive for those types of otherwise enabled persons. So I told her that when you're dialing the last digit, please make sure just the above button is not slightly high. That ensures you're dialing 0.

And on behalf of her, I put a SMS to Mr Bhadra requesting him to talk to her. I can not contact Mr. Bhadra as his phone was switched off. Don't know whether Mr. Bhadra at all called her up.

I wud be happy if at least once Mr Bhadra will call her and talk to her.

I wud be happy if I can somehow help her.