EXTRACT

FROM EDMUNDE BROOKE LESSONS

" .....Papa and Ammachi would go around telling relatives how earnestly they keep pleading with Liza & Aarcha to come back.

These visits to Liza were despite my stern warnings. For, in the first place, it was due to Papa’s interference into her office duties that she had left after differences with Papa.

This was Papa's style of micro-management which saw all the top professionals in our organisations - Navodaya & Kishkinta, leave. But Papa would entice 'good press' from relatives coming to gain favor.

Papa’s subsequent constant appeasement efforts by intruding into Liza’s home and workspace undermined my reconciliation attempts.

Liza would berate me for not keeping Papa and Ammachi off her back. I was left looking like a fool because of my parents. These actions had made me the person irrelevant and insignificant in the lives of my loved ones.

Why did I put up with this?

Surely, the 5th Commandment.

By 2006, Papa would do the same intrusion and interference with Aarcha after she came of age.

By 2016, Josmon would tout to all our relatives the assistance Josmon offers my daughter - which her irresponsible father (myself) fails to do.

And after buying Aarcha a flat without my knowledge, Josmon has the cheek to tounge-in-cheek that his help for Aarcha is ‘an insurance against her future inheritance claims’. Inheritance  ... meaning, the wealth Jijo was defrauded by falsification of Jijo's signatures in family and company deeds !! ....."