2013 SRIJANA BIRTHDAY MEMENTO

MY PHOTOS

LETTER TO R P SHAH

To

The Proprietor,

Sunshine International,

Khasra No. – 38, Plot No. 306,

Gali No. 3, Dabri Palam Road,

New Delhi – 110045.

From

Datla Chiranjeevi Raju,

Ground Floor, H. No. 33-4, Devi Nagar,

Payakaraopeta, Visakhapatnam District - 531 126.

Andhra Pradesh.

Dear Sir,

I saw an ad, given by you, in the Telugu daily Eenadu, a few weeks ago. I contacted Muskan over phone. She explained me the details of paper cup manufacturing process. I decided to buy a machine, make paper cups and make money for my survival.

I contacted Mr. Sudheer in Hyderabad and knew some details about this work.

I deposited 64,000 rupees into the current account of Sunshine International around 1 July, 2012. I paid 40,000 rupees towards partial cost of machine and 24,000 rupees towards security deposit for paper cup raw material. You took 10 days to make a machine for me worth 70,000 rupees. You booked my machine and a little raw material addressing me on 10 July, 2012, in New Delhi, at the office of Associated Road Carriers. I received this machine and material at the office of Associated Road Carriers, in Tuni, on 2 August, 2012.

Your trainer J Mukesh came to my rented portion of house in Payakaraopeta, in the morning hours, on 3 August, 2012. He checked the quality of my machine and did a few fitting acts to see that it is functioning for a while. He discovered that the 1 HP motor, in this machine, got damaged during road transport. He spent every minute hurriedly. He rushed to Rajahmundry that afternoon itself. I did not feel as if a trainer came from Delhi to train me on paper cup manufacturing process but Barack Obama from the United States of America. I paid 7,000 rupees to him as training fee based on the orders of Muskan. I did not know what he did for me worth this training fee.

I borrowed money from a private finance firm in Tuni pledging all the gold ornaments of my wife. Every month I have to pay 2100 rupees as interest for this money. I borrowed this money just depending on the promise of your business venture to invest in it. I did not think that you take that much time to send me the machine and you send such a trainer to teach me the process of paper cup manufacturing. I am suffering a lot considering the standards and values you are maintaining as an industrial unit in New Delhi. I am writing this letter to you to awaken you in many ways and let you know how a person like me suffers because of the shallow and unreliable business practices you are following now. Honesty is the best policy. I practice it in my life. I expect it from others.

1. Depositing Money in Bank Account

I deposited 64,000 rupees in your bank account without any proof or document from your end. I have to just believe that God is great and similarly Sunshine International also. Muskan gives me bank account details and that’s it. Don’t you think that it is one of the most outdated and old-fashioned methods of expecting money from your clients/new customers when they are interested in your business venture? You must send a formal letter/document/receipt at least specifying the details of payment and why you took it from a person. Why are you not doing it? Is it not a poor and bad business practice on your part?

2. Respect for Customers

I clearly typed my postal address in my email addressed to Muskan. She did not write even my address correctly on the consignment note of Associated Road Carriers or the envelope sent to me bearing this document through DTDC. She omitted my name altogether and just wrote down the name of C/o person. Is this the kind of communication and respect you have for your new customer, who desires to sustain his/her livelihood depending on your business venture? See that you write addresses correctly. Accurate communication is crucial for business.

3. Delay in Transport

I waited for 23 days to see my machine and material in Tuni. It means the vehicles of Associated Road Carriers took 22 days’ time to reach my machine to Tuni from New Delhi. You said that some annual fairs take place during this season, roads get blocked, vehicles stopped, during this time, in states like Uttar Pradesh, and so this unbearable delay in road transport. Why are you depending on Associated Road Carriers only? No Indian Railways or any other road transport medium, which promises you better/faster delivery, even in times like this? I felt very much frustrated and disappointed for depositing money in your account. Once I deposited money, I am in your hands. This is how you think and millions of Indians are thinking now. This is not fair business practice.

4. Negligence in Sending Raw Material

I clearly emailed to Muskan to send me raw material necessary for making one lakh paper cups. I received 1000 sheets of paper only along with machine. I can make 24,000 cups using these sheets of paper, if each of these is in a good condition. I found that about 15 sheets of them are partly damaged. Muskan asked me to send them back when I send my finished goods. You commit a mistake and you want to put that related burden on your esteemed customers. Is this a good business principle! Can you accept if I do like this when sending finished goods?

5. Trainer Fee

J Mukesh spent every minute, in my presence, hurriedly. I did not understand whether he came from New Delhi to Tuni (travelling about 3000 kilometres) to teach me everything related to paper cup manufacturing or just to rush away teaching a few things formally. Are you treating your customers like me like a beggar? A beggar treats his master like a God but God does not treat the beggar similarly. Gods don’t have much time to spend with beggars. You asked me to pay 7,000 rupees to this trainer. I wondered questioning myself “Why am I paying 7,000 rupees to him? What did he do for me? Has he come from the USA to train me or from India only?” Since you are in a higher position now, as an industrial unit, wherefrom you can issue orders to your clients/customers, I noiselessly paid 7,000 rupees to him. You are my master. I am your slave/servant. Servants should not question their masters.

6. Raw Material Processing (Sheet Cutting, Packing and Transport)

You are sending big sheets of paper. I have to cut each of these sheets into 24 pieces to make 24 paper cups from it. Every piece is a very valuable item for me because I am craving to earn 25 paise from each cup. How should I cut these many sheets into so many pieces to make paper cups? I should ask my wife to cut them into pieces, spending 24 hours a day, or beg a binder or printing machine holder to do it for me spending a lot of money and time on that factor. Your trainer or you are telling nothing on how to cut these sheets of paper into suitable pieces? You are leaving this crucial matter to the lot of your poor and helpless customers. You want finished goods. How should I pack them? Which boxes should I use to pack them? From which source should I get/buy those containers/cardboard boxes? What must be the sizes of these boxes? How many pieces should I pack in each box? To which address should I send them? Through which transport system should I send them? How and when do you pay money for these finished goods sent by me? Is there any system to address and monitor these things from your end? You left sheet cutting, packing and transport to your address like a big issue to all your customers. You don’t know how many problems they face every day to resolve these issues? How can a villager solve these problems? Most of the poor and helpless people are in villages and small towns now in India being unable to go anywhere and do anything to make a living? How can they benefit from your business venture? Can’t you find a solution to resolve these issues faced by your customers across places?

7. Supply of Raw Material

I asked Muskan, by email and over phone, to send me raw material necessary for making one lakh cups, along with machine but she did not do it. If I make 12,000 paper cups, working for eight hours, on your machine, how many paper cups can I make in a week’s time? What should I do when there is no enough raw material with me? Should I sit idly in my home dreaming about Muskan sending me raw material after a few weeks? You think your customers like me are millionaires and billionaires, who work for five days and rest for 25 days until your raw material arrives as per your standards. Poor, helpless, hopeless and frustrated Indians only resort to paper cup manufacturing business after collapsing in their personal/financial lives in many ways. Every day and every paisa they earn from your business option is very important for them. In this context, why are you playing with lives of desperate people like me? When I deposited 64,000 rupees into your bank account, without any proofs about your standards and values as a reliable business unit, why can’t you send raw material for two lakh paper cups without asking me to deposit more money for that also? You think we escape to the USA or the UK using the money we earn from your business, making a few thousand cups? I cannot deposit more money to make you send me more raw material because I am poor and helpless and for that reason only I chose your business. I want to make more and more paper cups, every day, amid chasing power cuts in our corrupt state, using the adequate raw material generously sent by you. I am not doing this business to cheat you. Fraudsters and criminals don’t choose the business option of paper cup manufacturing but politics, films and games. If some fellow decided to work with you means, he wants to live honestly and ideally through hard work, every day and night. I am one of such Indians. Why did Muskan refuse to send me raw material for two lakh cups without more deposit of money for that?  Why did not you send me raw material even for one lakh cups? How many days should I wait to earn a little money through your business venture? I am helpless, hopeless and sad, and that’s why I decided to work with you. You must be ideal when talking and dealing with helpless folks like me. If I have ability to deposit thousands of rupees in your account, whenever you ask, why should I do this poor business? Understand poor and helpless people better to do good business with them. If you fail to be kind and generous towards poor and helpless Indians like me, there is no purpose to your business venture or meaning to your mortal existence on this earth. Humanity means sympathy for good people. Only right people get into businesses like paper cup manufacturing. Only good people consider 25 paisa for one cup considerable income to live on their own. Let good Indians retain their hope for tomorrow.

8. Lack of Guidelines and Formats

At Sunshine International, the staff at higher positions, including its proprietor, must understand and answer the following questions and doubts, personally and professionally, which are felt by every client, while doing business with you. You can earn money doing business any way but the best businessman is one, who understands and serves one’s customers thinking from their perspectives. I want Sunshine International to be the best employer/business unit/entrepreneur. I have the following suggestions/comments in this regard.

1. Can’t we make a website/brochure/CD informing and explaining everything we do at Sunshine International as a business unit? It must speak everything about Sunshine International clearly and proudly? What else can we do to achieve this goal, which many small firms are also doing now?

2. Why should any new customer deposit money into our current bank account just depending on our words? Can’t we prepare a format of documentation/formal letter to address this point of concern better? How can others trust that we are a reliable and admirable firm, with a great track record, without some proofs in this regard?

3. How can we ensure that our consignments reach our present and past clients without much delay? Should we consider Indian Railways/highly reliable road carriers/any other medium? If days and days get wasted in transport itself and some goods are damaged in this process only, why should our clients be happy and satisfactory with our services in this regard? Are we using great material in our machinery or just fooling our clients thinking that they don’t know the real worth of these machines in open market? We should change our thinking in this direction!

4. Can’t we make a tool/set of tools to cut sheets of paper into different sizes minding the problems of our clients? Much of their time and energy get wasted in cutting sheets of paper only if we leave this stage of processing to their innocence and helplessness only. Printing presses/binding shops/individuals demand a lot of money from our poor clients if we leave paper cutting to their imagination only!

5. Can we make highly durable and dependable boxes/other material to help our clients? We should send raw material to them in time without damage and they must be able to send finished goods in the same fashion to us utilizing this material/tools/mechanism/means made/arranged by us. What should we do in this regard?

6. Why should we be scared to send adequate raw material to all those of our clients, who want it, based on their urgent and regular requirements. If somebody, living in distant places from New Delhi, chose to make paper cups for us, expecting 25 paisa for each cup, leaving all other similar business ventures in their regions in different states, it means that he/she is really innocent and helpless. They cannot sell/market our machines/paper cups in their regions without sending us. Then why expecting lots of deposits to send them enough raw material?

7.  Do we have a database with the contact details and addresses of every client we are dealing with? We must be able to understand everything, going on at Sunshine International, at any given point of time, without depending on others in this firm or our clients. Accurate and easily accessible information and reliable communication are great assets of a firm. What can we do to enhance our image in this regard from every point of view?

8. What can we do to streamline every process at Sunshine International? Raw material, packing, dispatch, receipt of finished goods, instant payments to clients, reliable business principles and practices…There is so much to think and act upon. Businesses thrive through planning, idealism and vision. We should help and guide others ideally. What can we do to achieve this larger goal every day? Let’s assemble our staff and bring a lot of change in.

About Me

I earlier worked as a language editor and content writer with four firms in Hyderabad for about four years. I did not find that life satisfactory and interesting because I did not get time to feel and enjoy my personal life. I wanted to go away from all those pains and burdens of city life as an employee associated with a business firm. I wanted to live doing something near my home, being close to my parents, siblings, friends and well-wishers. I returned to my hometown. I thought a lot. I decided to make paper cups to live honestly and ideally.

Essentially I am a writer, dreamer and thinker. I write personal diaries and post them online. To understand me as a writer and dreamer, you can visit my blog sites virahini.blogspot.in and dcraju.blogspot.in

I write when I feel the need of it strongly. I knew, from J Mukesh, that Sunshine International has a big industrial unit in New Delhi, where about 100 people work every day on different machines and tools. I wondered when I knew from him that there are about 100 machines of Sunshine International in different places of India. It means Sunshine International is not a small firm with a little board by the side of a road. When such many people are working in it, why are its people and processes are little known to its clients and customers also? Even worthless blokes are doing a lot now through their websites, brochures, business cards, presentations and other sources to let others understand who they are and what they are doing. Then, why not anything, of this order, happening on behalf of Sunshine International? These doubts and questions and related disappointment, caused to me, because of your thoughtless and unreliable business practices, made me write this letter to you. I can be happy and satisfied as your client only when you understand my concerns and fears. As a writer and dreamer, it is my moral responsibility to make my fellow Indians understand others better. Attached my CV for your careful glance!

Thank you.

Sincerely,

(Datla Chiranjeevi Raju)

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I wrote this letter on 4 August, 2012, and posted to the address of Sunshine International, for R P Shah. 

SUNSHINE INTERNATIONAL- A FRAUD

The following is the story of a fraudulent firm, named Sunshine International, based in New Delhi, which has been cheating many Indians for the last six years or so. This is to alert my blog readers regarding how some fraudulent firms can cheat you very easily. I am a victim in this scenario. This is my report for my dear honest Indians. I welcome your aid and advice, if any.

ADDRESS OF THE FIRM

Sunshine International,

Factory No.38, Plot No. 306,

Street No.3, Dabri, Palam Road, New Delhi – 110045.

Email:   ssinternational.455@rediffmail.com

            ssinternational632@gmail.com

Ph:       9211244120, 9717571258

PROPRIETOR OF THE FIRM

R P Shah

OTHER STAFF I KNEW ABOUT

Muskan – Customer Service Executive

Santhosh – Sales and Marketing Manager

Mukesh – Technician  

Pintu Singh – Technician

Rajesh Singh – Technician

A SHORT NOTE ABOUT EACH OF THESE PERSONS

R P Shah never appears to anybody, as far as I know. You imagine him as the proprietor of this firm. Since big bosses are not supposed to communicate to ordinary people, in general, I never got an opportunity to see or interact with this boss of the firm.

Muskan attends most of your calls. She can speak Telugu and Hindi well. She talks sweetly with you until you pay money to them to buy some machine from them. Thereafter she talks carelessly and angrily with you. She explains you rules whenever you ask her for something from them. In short, she is trained as a brainless cheat to talk carelessly with innocent clients. I experienced it many times. I could not correct her because she was talking about rules always.

Santosh communicated with me regarding dispatch of paper cup raw material and receipt of finished goods from me. He always maintained a tone of patience, respect and affection for me. I never saw him because he sits in his New Delhi office only as far as I know.

Mukesh came to fit my paper cup machine initially. He came all the way down from New Delhi to spend with me for two hours only working on the machine. He spent rest of the time in train journey only. Imagine him in comparison to Barack Obama.

Pintu Singh and Rajesh Singh came to my rented abode, second time, to fit a new 1 HP motor into my paper cup machine because the first motor, which came with the machine, got damaged in transport. I found them as gentlemen because they did their assigned work here and left for New Delhi.

NATURE OF SUNSHINE INTERNATIONAL

If you search on Google, typing up this name, you certainly find some details about this firm. One link is

http://www.tradeindia.com/Seller-4417060-Sunshine-International/

They sell seven kinds of machines. The names of these machines are:

1. Manual Machine

2. Automatic Horizontal Single Die Machine

3. Automatic Horizontal Double Die Machine

4. Automatic Vertical Single Die Machine

5. Automatic Vertical Double Die Machine

6. Fully Automatic Roll Model Machine (Single Die)

7. Fully Automatic Roll Model (Double Die)

OTHER DETAILS OF THESE MACHINES

They email a word file with the following information before allowing you to jump into their dirty and dangerous pit of business. I am providing the following information based on that file emailed by Muskan to me earlier this year. The related images could not be pasted here.

1. Manual Machine

Amount:               20,000/-

Makes:                  6,000 pieces in 8 hrs.

Business Description:     After receiving your finished goods, the company pays you Rs. 250/- per 1000 pieces of 4”Dona.

2. Automatic Horizontal Single Die Machine

Amount:               50,000/-

Makes:                  10,000 pieces in 8 hrs.

Business Description:     After receiving your finished goods, the company pays you  Rs. 250/- per 1000 pieces of 4”Dona.

3. Automatic Horizontal Double Die Machine

Amount:               1, 00,000/-

Makes:                  20,000 pieces in 8 hrs.

Business Description:     After receiving your finished goods, the company pays you Rs. 250/- per 1000 pieces of 4”Dona.

4. Automatic Vertical Single Die Machine

Amount:               70,000/-

Makes:                  12,000 pieces in 8 hrs.

Business Description:     After receiving your finished goods, the company pays you Rs. 250/- per 1000 pieces of 4”Dona.

5. Automatic Vertical Double Die Machine

Amount:               1, 20,000/-

Makes:                  24,000 pieces in 8 hrs.

Business Description:     After receiving your finished goods, the company pays you Rs. 250/- per 1000 pieces of 4”Dona.

6. Fully Automatic Roll Model Machine (Single Die)

Amount:               2, 25,000/-

Makes:                  10,000 pieces in 8 hrs.

Business Description:     After receiving your finished goods, the company pays you Rs. 250/- per 1000 pieces of 4”Dona.

7. Fully Automatic Roll Model (Double Die)

Amount:               3, 50,000/-

Makes:                  20,000 pieces in 8 hrs.

Business Description:     After receiving your finished goods, the company pays you Rs. 250/- per 1000 pieces of 4”Dona.

SYSTEM OF THEIR BUSINESS

They give short classified ads in regional dailies stating that one can earn anywhere between 40,000 and 60,000 rupees per month doing this paper cup manufacturing business. Generally many unemployed, innocent and helpless youth get attracted towards this business venture. Some of them call up to above phone numbers. It is the entrance gate to the hell they are going to witness soon, in case they desire to enter it. I am one in case.

MODE OF PAYMENT

Muskan asked me what machine I want to buy to get into this business. I opted for Automatic Vertical Single Die Machine considering its low cost and chance to earn considerable amount of money as proposed by them. I thought I can earn about 50,000 rupees every month working on this machine based on this ad and the assuring words of Muskan during my initial talk with her. She told me to deposit 64,000 rupees into their current account number 037805500117 through online money transfer. I did it on 2 July, 2012. They don’t give you any receipt also for it. You have to just believe in them. I believed in them because we cannot live in India if we suspect everybody and every firm operating from the holy soil of India! Mera Bharat Mahan.

From this amount of money, 40,000 rupees is advance payment for the machine and 24,000 rupees is security deposit for supply of raw material from them. She said I have to pay the remaining amount of money 15 days after I receive the machine.

SEQUENCE OF EVENTS OF FRAUD

I briefly explain you how they cheated me. This is what I experienced so far.

1. They sent me a machine through ARC transport system within about 30 days after I paid this money to them through online banking. Shortly their technician Mukesh came to fit my machine formally. He found that the 1 HP motor, in this machine, got damaged during road transport. Muskan ordered me to pay 7,000 rupees to Mukesh towards technician fee.  I did it and also sent the damaged motor back soon on their advice.

2. They sent their technicians Rajesh Singh and Pintu Singh on 8 September, 2012, with a new 1 HP motor. They fitted this machine and went back saying that it works well thereafter but it did not happen when I started working on it.

3. I spent about 5,000 rupees to get it repaired thereafter by an experienced local mechanic. I could not work on it for about 10 days due to this repair work. Muskan told me that she does not send their technicians anymore to my place if any problem arises in my machine in future because I got it repaired by a local mechanic instead of waiting for their mechanics to come to my place in a month or so. She means that I should wait for about 30 days or so just to see that my machine works well. She is very intelligent, strategic and stupid in her answers to me. I bore it because my ball was in their court.

4. My only intention was to earn more money making more paper cups on it but I underwent many problems in this process. Nobody came forward to work beside me on this machine because it is dangerous work. Two hot dies press a paper into cup when I insert it between them carefully. They cut our fingers if we are careless. I have to pay 200 rupees per day at least to a worker to pull cut cups out from between these dies. No adult desires to get into this dangerous work for 200 rupees when there are many easy options to them out there in the open market. I managed to lure a dropout into this work. He worked with me for four days and disappeared considering the danger and hard work involved in this work.

5. My wife Srijana and I worked on it hard to somehow earn some money from this venture. She did extraordinary hard work in this regard. I only inserted square shaped sheets of papers between the two dies. She pulled cut cups from between the dies, paired them up and packed them simultaneously. One can understand the critical and difficult nature of this work only on seeing in person while we are working on this machine this way.

6. We prepared 1, 07,000 paper cups by 13 October, 2012, undergoing all these difficulties. We packed them into 15 cardboard boxes carefully, labeled them and dispatched them to the office of VRL Logistics at Rama Road in New Delhi, on 14 October, 2012, from the office of VRL Logistics in Tuni, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh. This material reached the office of VRL Logistics at Keerti Nagar, in New Delhi, on 22 October, 2012 around 10:22 A.M. IST based on the information I got online when I checked the website of this transport system. The folks of Sunshine International collected this material from this office around 2 November, 2012. I searched online, located the existence of my consignment and informed them about it. Then only they collected my consignment. They took that much time to take my finished goods to their office. My wife and I were waiting for the related money after the counting of the cups at their end. On 17 November, 2012, when I enquired Muskan about the payment for this material, she said that about 27,000 cups of this consignment got damaged and the remaining amount of money is deducted towards the balance cost of machine. I got this answer after struggling in this risky venture from 2 July, 2012 to 17 November, 2012. What must be the feeling and suffering of my wife, who worked hard sitting beside me for many days like a bonded labourer? How shall I earn 50,000 rupees in this process if they take weeks and weeks for everything from their end?

THE ACTUAL FRAUD IN THEIR BUSINESS

I try to explain the core of their fraudulent business below.

1. They said that the cost of this machine is 70,000 rupees but in open market, one does not buy it for 10,000 rupees also. They make these machines with low quality material in their factory and sell them at very high costs thinking that all other Indians are innocent and foolish. So, initially, just by selling this machine only, they make a profit of 60,000 rupees. You should not talk about these things. Even if you talk about it, they don’t tell you anything about it.

2. They send 1000 sheets of paper cup raw material in one bundle. We need to get each of these sheets cut into 24 square shaped pieces at some print unit because we cannot do it manually. You need to find one printer to do it for you. They do it when they have time for it.

3. We cannot make as many cups as they proposed, in reality. If they said that we can make 12,000 paper cups on my machine, it means I can make 8,000 paper cups only on it. They cheat you saying that you can make higher number of cups to lure you into this mire.

4. We have to pack 100 paper cups into one suitable polythene cover. We have to pack such 50 polythene cover packs into one cardboard box. We have to buy suitable cardboard boxes for their dispatch. We have to pack every cardboard box very carefully.

5. It takes about 10 days for a consignment to reach New Delhi from Tuni generally. Sometimes it may take 14 days also. We have to simply wait for all these days and hear some news from that end. They don’t call you up proactively. After repeated calls from our end, they collect our consignment from the office of road transport.

6. They may take any number of days to count our material. Then, they say that most of our material got damaged during transport or that we sent wrongly shaped cups. We cannot check the reality going to their office in person. So, we have to accept whatever they say in this regard. They play with you like anything in this respect. They test your patience!

7. They don’t send adequate raw material continuously. If we ask them for four bundles for a week continuously, they send two bundles after another week. We need to wait 10 days to get it and about four days to get it cut into suitable square shaped pieces by the folks of print units in our region. It is an unreliable system of dispatch of raw material always.

8. This machine works on single phase current. It may consume about eight units of commercial type current if we work on it for about 10 hours. Power cuts are prevalent in the state of Andhra Pradesh now. So, we can work on it only when there is power supply.

9. Three strong and hard-working persons have to work on this machine continuously for about 10 hours to make 10,000 paper cups. If we calculate the costs involved in this venture of self-employment like cost of paper cutting process at a print unit, cardboard boxes, labour costs, packing process and transport system, we can earn about 10,000 rupees in a month, if we work continuously for a month every day for eight hours. It is also not possible for us because they don’t send raw material adequately.

10. We need to be alert and highly careful every second when making cups on this machine because the hot dies burn our fingers if we touch them by mistake. They cut our fingers if we put between them by mistake or in hurry of making them fast. They pay 25 paise for every cup made, sent and accepted by them. For every 25 paise, you are facing a risk of losing your finger or getting electric shock. They are not responsible for anything that happens due to this machine because we opted for it for the sake of livelihood. Many are doing it in India daily.

11. This machine may fail to work at any time because its quality is so. You need to call a local mechanic and get it repaired. If you do so, Muskan says that it is a blunder and that their technicians won’t come here anymore. You need to wait for a month or so for their technicians to come and repair our machine. Is it justifiable? She bothers you in every single imaginable way from day one whenever you call her up. I experienced it silently and helplessly because I deposited 64,000 rupees into their account just like that to make a living this way!

12. Once the money is in their current account, one can do nothing with them. One becomes a beggar. I experienced such life during the period between 2 July, 2012 and 17 November, 2012. They don’t scold you or harm you directly but indirectly as explained above. You have to wait for what they do but they don’t do anything as you desire or expect from them. You are just like a helpless slave to them. Money is in their bank account. There is no proof for it. You decided to make a living out of their venture of self-employment. You are helpless. They are miles away from you. You cannot reach them in one hour. You cannot go by airplane because such people don’t do such business with such rogues of India. You simply suffer in yourself. My wife, I and others familiar to me experienced such situation during all these days.

13. Muskan asked for my bank account number about one month ago. I thought she did so to deposit the money into my account after getting my first consignment but later I understood that she did so simply to trick me. Why should she ask for my bank account number when she knows that they deduct all that initial money for their machine cost?! You think that girls are soft and sweet. I lost this impression after communicating with Muskan during all these days. She talks carelessly. She considers you like a dog on streets. I experienced such communication from her. She cannot write even one sentence in English correctly. She never replies to your email. She does not change her subject line also when replying to you but just hits reply button if there is some disappointing information for you. I got such replies only from her so far.

14. Pintu Singh and Rajesh Singh, who fitted 1 HP motor in my machine on 8 September, 2012, got me sign on an agreement of two papers. R P Shah, the great builder and king of the kingdom of this fraudulent business, got some lawyer scribble nonsense in these documents. I signed on them for the formality of it. As per moral standards of ordinary human beings, even the other party has to sign those papers and send back to me. Muskan did not do it till now. It means I should not have any proof with me, which may subject them to legal and moral distress in future. So, they commit frauds very strategically. They could cheat me working from New Delhi. I am M.A. English, blogger, writer, dreamer, idealist and visionary of India, as I often think about me. R P Shah can cheat even thinkers and dreamers like me. What about ordinary people in India? Can they write the stories of their pain and getting cheated by others this way?

15. I always wanted to earn money honestly. I thought this is an honest way for earning money. It is true also because we can earn money through a lot of hard work and patience this way. They did not pay me a little money even after waiting for 100 days. Are they honest? Are they reliable? They have a big work place in New Delhi, the capital of India, where VVIPs like Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Manmohan Singh are also living. They have an address. They are not cheating me from the sky or other country but just from my own country. My mistake is believing that all Indians are not cheats. I desired to live honestly depending on a fellow’s business originating from New Delhi. I got into this venture depending on a short classified ad given in Eenadu. I admire Ramoji Rao. That person only cheated me accepting such ads into his newspaper to make a little money. If Ramoji Rao cannot identify fraudsters before accepting ads into his newspaper, possessing so much of wealth and repute in India, with so many television channels and print media valor, how can poor, innocent, helpless and ideal Indians like me can recognize them initially? How can I know whether one is honest or not? Did Ambedkar or Kalam address this issue so far? I took about 100 days to understand the fraudulent nature of R P Shah, Sunshine International and all the members working in it publicly.

16. I took a loan of one lakh rupees, pledging the gold ornaments of my wife Srijana, on 2 July, 2012, from the office of Manappuram Finance, at Tuni, to get into this venture of self-employment and make a living through hard work. I am paying interest for it. When do I get profit from this venture to get back those gold ornaments? I could not earn even one rupee from 1 August, 2011, ever since I left the job in Hyderabad with a firm. I jumped into this venture of self-employment just to come out of that debt and distress trap. Sunshine International further complicated my life. My father-in-law, an ordinary Indian, working in an agricultural farm, away from Hyderabad, miles away from his native place, is funding my family for all these months. I depended on the business network of R P Shah to come out of this ditch. I wanted to live with self-respect doing something on my own at home, being in access to my family. It was not possible for me doing a job. Should not I desire to make a living through self-employment depending on another Indian, Mr. R P Shah? How many Indians are being cheated and bothered by him every day? Can Information Act regulate and correct Mr. R P Shah?

17. Ever since I bought this machine and started making paper cups on it, many familiar and unfamiliar ones cautioned me about the nature of business ventures originating from distant places like New Delhi? What if they cheat me cruelly? What is the purpose of working hard on a dangerous machine, along with my wife, depending on the credibility of R P Shah, a person whom I never saw in my life? I still continued to trust my fellow Indians in New Delhi.

18. I wrote a long letter to R P Shah explaining in what sense his business venture is going on in a very wrong direction because it is my moral responsibility as a thinker and dreamer of India. There was no reply from him or others related to him. Did he read that letter? Can he understand English? Does not he need English to cheat other Indians like me? Is it enough if he simply establishes such a fraudulent business venture and recruits a bunch of folks to do it on his behalf? R P Shah shares these business secrets with you if you can meet him in person in New Delhi. Meet his staff members at least to know how to cheat fellow Indians. Is this the kind of culture Hindus are learning going to temples frequently? Perhaps R P Shah must be requesting his favourite god to forgive him for living depending on the pain, suffering and tears of his fellow Indians. He cannot live without bothering and cheating others! I understood it!

19. How can I correct trained and experienced fraudsters like R P Shah, Muskan, Santosh, Mukesh, Rajesh Singh and Pintu Singh? They know that I am a writer. Rajesh Singh took a copy of my book Stories of Love and Beauty when he came to my house to repair my machine along with Pintu Singh. So, they believe that they can cheat anybody publicly. Shall I consult a lawyer? Shall I go to a court of law? How much money and time should I further invest in this process? Shall I beat or kill each of these idiots publicly or secretly? Can/should I do it? Others call me a sinner and criminal if I do so? Do police in New Delhi do me justice if I consult them? Can Anna Hazare or Kiran Bedi fight for me in this regard? Should a writer and dreamer become a shameless parasite and helpless victim to get justice in this nation? Then what about millions of ordinary Indians, who simply believe in others every day? The moment I desire to live honestly in India, depending on my pure hard work and standards as an individual, somebody is cheating me carelessly and shamelessly. This time it is R P Shah and his staff members at Sunshine International!

20. I don’t think I could narrate my story of pain and suffering, in order, in this flow of letters but I tried for it. Pain has no order. If anybody has doubts about anything in the process of my being hurt and getting cheated by the folks of Sunshine International, I answer them.

I will post the letter, which I wrote for R P Shah, earlier, and sent him by post, on this blog site, very soon, for all of you to read and understand this case study more clearly.