It is, by now, quite noticeable the weary tones of once vociferous CSOs of Manipur. I'm referring to the super abundant 'Civil Society Organizations'.
Going by the press handouts of the CSOs during the last few weeks, it is quite remarkable that they seem to be a little cowed down.
It's the remarkable success of the ongoing dirty war. We can also name it as the Chanakyan mode of waging war.
When you see faces on the street and watch their body movements, they also seem to be genuinely foxed by the spiral of events that engulf them.
Thses events seek to shift the playing field itself to a 'dirty' level. We need not talk of Rule of the Game here. 'Dirty' playing field need not have a Rule of the Game. Palpable lack of any Rule makes general people confused and felt loss.
We have the option of learning from the dirty wars waged during the cold war. Or, from the centuries old of Chanakya.
Here, it is better to write off the media complelety. The media is completely cowed down.
The learning may come from the rallies of the meira paibis or the various 'struggles' of the CSOs.
Here, we can only be optimists. Every crisis comes impregnated with an opportunity. I hope this society learns its lessons quickly and jumps to a higher level.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
We are medieval subjects
Yesterday, I badly needed to log into Yahoo account by 2 in the afternoon. But we had a bad power cut starting from early in the morning. We got it back by around 3.30 pm. When I tried to log into my account, I found out that BSNL Broadband was not working.
There was the same scenario this morning also. By around 1 pm I phoned the 'complaint room' and promptly got informed that we should be getting it back by around 2. I further asked him if we could get power tomorrow morning because I had some to finish in the morning. He told me for the period of High School leaving exam we should expect it only during the night time.
At arund 1.30 I got it back. I also found that BSNL's service was ok. To my surprise, I found the download speed markedly better than of average days.
Yesterday, I also visited a friend's place in Naoremthing in the evening. There they got uniterrupted power supply for 2/3 days into the curfew days. Now,there it was back to square one.
My point is--we are being treated like some kind of medieval subjects.
Why don't they try to book the culprits?
Once the culprits are in police custody, there cannot be any unrest.
There was the same scenario this morning also. By around 1 pm I phoned the 'complaint room' and promptly got informed that we should be getting it back by around 2. I further asked him if we could get power tomorrow morning because I had some to finish in the morning. He told me for the period of High School leaving exam we should expect it only during the night time.
At arund 1.30 I got it back. I also found that BSNL's service was ok. To my surprise, I found the download speed markedly better than of average days.
Yesterday, I also visited a friend's place in Naoremthing in the evening. There they got uniterrupted power supply for 2/3 days into the curfew days. Now,there it was back to square one.
My point is--we are being treated like some kind of medieval subjects.
Why don't they try to book the culprits?
Once the culprits are in police custody, there cannot be any unrest.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Is this the end?
When I hurried back home to skirt the 6 pm dateline of the start of the curfew, I found out that there was no light.
My first reaction--'Is this the end?'
Is this the end of the uninterrupted electricity we have been getting since the day after the murder of the three Govt officials?
Is there some breakthrough in Delhi the Chief Minister me the Home Minister there? So that the supply of uninterrupted power to the people won't be necessary at all?
Questions abound!
But keeping other thngs in the backburner, we should not here that we have been getting uninterrupted electricity since the last 7-8 days. It has been quite a experience for us Imphalites.
I'm loving this experience!
There was also a lot of official proclamations of how they were trying to give uninterrupted power at least throughout length of the high school leaving which starts on the 27th of this month.
So, I hpoe this situation persists at least a week or 10 days. Within these days I hope to finish some pressing works.
In the evening when I was pondering over all these questions out in my yard, I got hit by a drop of water and then another one.
'Is this rain'--I asked.
Sure enough, I got the first amongsth the first drops of the season's first rainfall on my face!
Now, there is a drizzle.
I'm already give title the post with the word 'end' but today also marks the begining of soemthing--season's first reainfall.
Cheers!!
My first reaction--'Is this the end?'
Is this the end of the uninterrupted electricity we have been getting since the day after the murder of the three Govt officials?
Is there some breakthrough in Delhi the Chief Minister me the Home Minister there? So that the supply of uninterrupted power to the people won't be necessary at all?
Questions abound!
But keeping other thngs in the backburner, we should not here that we have been getting uninterrupted electricity since the last 7-8 days. It has been quite a experience for us Imphalites.
I'm loving this experience!
There was also a lot of official proclamations of how they were trying to give uninterrupted power at least throughout length of the high school leaving which starts on the 27th of this month.
So, I hpoe this situation persists at least a week or 10 days. Within these days I hope to finish some pressing works.
In the evening when I was pondering over all these questions out in my yard, I got hit by a drop of water and then another one.
'Is this rain'--I asked.
Sure enough, I got the first amongsth the first drops of the season's first rainfall on my face!
Now, there is a drizzle.
I'm already give title the post with the word 'end' but today also marks the begining of soemthing--season's first reainfall.
Cheers!!
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Getting dirtier by the day
When I went to Manipur University some months back, I noticed an unusual thing on the road. BSNL officials were supervising the laying of fiber optics along that strech of National Highway 39. Most of the times, when BSNL lays fiber optics they do it on the sides of the road. This time they were doing it by digging up right at the centre of the street, that too along the busy National Highway.
Another unusual thing ws that unproportionately alrge numbers of important looking officials were there at thework site.
Back then, I thought--'Looking East policy in action'?
How could a layman,like me,have the wherewithal to connect the scene of a team of officials overseeing the laying of fiber optics(though a little unusual, even then, by the intensity of the works) and Hamid Ansari,the Vice President of India?
It now looks possible that they were working at the pace to enable the Vice President to make the first call from Mandalay to Moreh. That was during his recent visit to Burma some weeks back.
My pooint--India is engaging Burma at the highest diplomatic levels as a part of counter-insurgency measures in Manipur. See the team of Tata Motors in the official delegation of the Vice Presidential visit. There are also other ligh level corporate leaders trying to initiate citizen to citizen relationship besides the intense governmental-level efforts to persuade Burma to distance itself from Manipur's rebels.
Other important facet of this ongoing counter-insurgency policy is the doctrine of military restraint. If they start to use even some heavy artillery or even some combat choppers, leave aside the fighter jets, it will attract the attentions of international community. So, the doctrine of military restraint.
So, what's the missing link in this ongoing counter-insurgency policy?
The dirty war.
As a consequence of the doctrine of military restraint the Indian military is left with little option but to wage a ferocious dirty war here, most probably, engaging some of the brightest brain in their disposal.
Let's name some of the most glaring consequence of this dirty war:
bomb blast in ISKCON temple.
Gunning downof migrant workers.
Shooting down of a reporter.
Now, the murder of an important State Govt official together with two of his subordinate.
If we jump out of the box called Manipur and try to see the proceedings as a dispassionate observer from a purely whudunnit angle, it becomes fascinating to visualize how the dirty war mongers manage to lure the NSCN(IM) cadres to do the dirty work.
As the curfew 5 in the evening, I sat there pondering the issue:
'How did they manage to do that?'
Then, suddenly, a name came into my mind--JOHN LE CARRE!
I murmer to myself:
'My, my, Imphal is now the perfect setting of a John Le Carre novel'.
Another unusual thing ws that unproportionately alrge numbers of important looking officials were there at thework site.
Back then, I thought--'Looking East policy in action'?
How could a layman,like me,have the wherewithal to connect the scene of a team of officials overseeing the laying of fiber optics(though a little unusual, even then, by the intensity of the works) and Hamid Ansari,the Vice President of India?
It now looks possible that they were working at the pace to enable the Vice President to make the first call from Mandalay to Moreh. That was during his recent visit to Burma some weeks back.
My pooint--India is engaging Burma at the highest diplomatic levels as a part of counter-insurgency measures in Manipur. See the team of Tata Motors in the official delegation of the Vice Presidential visit. There are also other ligh level corporate leaders trying to initiate citizen to citizen relationship besides the intense governmental-level efforts to persuade Burma to distance itself from Manipur's rebels.
Other important facet of this ongoing counter-insurgency policy is the doctrine of military restraint. If they start to use even some heavy artillery or even some combat choppers, leave aside the fighter jets, it will attract the attentions of international community. So, the doctrine of military restraint.
So, what's the missing link in this ongoing counter-insurgency policy?
The dirty war.
As a consequence of the doctrine of military restraint the Indian military is left with little option but to wage a ferocious dirty war here, most probably, engaging some of the brightest brain in their disposal.
Let's name some of the most glaring consequence of this dirty war:
bomb blast in ISKCON temple.
Gunning downof migrant workers.
Shooting down of a reporter.
Now, the murder of an important State Govt official together with two of his subordinate.
If we jump out of the box called Manipur and try to see the proceedings as a dispassionate observer from a purely whudunnit angle, it becomes fascinating to visualize how the dirty war mongers manage to lure the NSCN(IM) cadres to do the dirty work.
As the curfew 5 in the evening, I sat there pondering the issue:
'How did they manage to do that?'
Then, suddenly, a name came into my mind--JOHN LE CARRE!
I murmer to myself:
'My, my, Imphal is now the perfect setting of a John Le Carre novel'.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Two words procession
The three death bodies were carried in a procession towards Singjamei passing the street in front of my house. The coffins were wrapped in simple white cloths. They were put together on a Tata truck.
The procession returned passing the same route after one hour or so. I was confused for a moment but they were bringing home the coffin of the murdered man of Singjamei and returned carrying back the other two coffins of the men of Uripok and Nagamapal.
So many sad faces there on the procession.
By now, the last rites of the murdered men would have been completed.
Three good, upright and duty-bound men were murdered for no faults of them.
And here we are all standing helpless.
The truck carrying the coffins was wrapped around by a festoon with just two words:
"Henmalle-ko, NSCN(IM)."
The procession returned passing the same route after one hour or so. I was confused for a moment but they were bringing home the coffin of the murdered man of Singjamei and returned carrying back the other two coffins of the men of Uripok and Nagamapal.
So many sad faces there on the procession.
By now, the last rites of the murdered men would have been completed.
Three good, upright and duty-bound men were murdered for no faults of them.
And here we are all standing helpless.
The truck carrying the coffins was wrapped around by a festoon with just two words:
"Henmalle-ko, NSCN(IM)."
Sunday, February 22, 2009
HOW?
I thought I got an interesting post yesterday. I was really excited to go in for the actual task of making the post. But when I tried to log into my blogger account, I found out there was no internet connectivity. I even tried NetOne, the dial up service from BSNL. That was not working also.
Well, I lost an interesting post.
We got curfew relaxation from 9 in the morning upto--when??
I realy didn't care. Around 9.30 I went out and did some shopping and returned home as soon as I was done with that! Then, I charged into my daily chores. Sundays do not offer any respite from my daily chores like making meals.
When I was preparing to eat my lunch, I heard the police patrols using public address systems to announce that the curfew relaxation time was over. They were exhorting people to go home. I even didn't care to check the time then also.
Damned the curfew.
When I glanced at the headlines this morning, my feeling was that Manipur's situation is increasingly looking like a formulaic Bond film. There is one particular Bond film in which the baddie guy publishes the news before the actual event materializes. Then, he 'lets' the event 'happened'.
That's more or less same situation here.
They are 'letting' upheavals 'happened' here.
The only difference now and a year back is that the baddies' tentacles now reach the hills.
With the media forcedfully made to understand that 'they(the baddies)' are the part of the mosaic of what we call the 'actual power equations' of their present day society, they(the meida men) are effectively shieled from publishing what they think, suspect and then, investigate. The media men are unotrusively made not to make investigations.
The media is not doing its duty.
With the media in such a decay, how would the small men and women of this society make the beginning of a tough soul searching to identify and defeat the 'dark siders' who are 'scripting upheavals' here?
HOW?
Well, I lost an interesting post.
We got curfew relaxation from 9 in the morning upto--when??
I realy didn't care. Around 9.30 I went out and did some shopping and returned home as soon as I was done with that! Then, I charged into my daily chores. Sundays do not offer any respite from my daily chores like making meals.
When I was preparing to eat my lunch, I heard the police patrols using public address systems to announce that the curfew relaxation time was over. They were exhorting people to go home. I even didn't care to check the time then also.
Damned the curfew.
When I glanced at the headlines this morning, my feeling was that Manipur's situation is increasingly looking like a formulaic Bond film. There is one particular Bond film in which the baddie guy publishes the news before the actual event materializes. Then, he 'lets' the event 'happened'.
That's more or less same situation here.
They are 'letting' upheavals 'happened' here.
The only difference now and a year back is that the baddies' tentacles now reach the hills.
With the media forcedfully made to understand that 'they(the baddies)' are the part of the mosaic of what we call the 'actual power equations' of their present day society, they(the meida men) are effectively shieled from publishing what they think, suspect and then, investigate. The media men are unotrusively made not to make investigations.
The media is not doing its duty.
With the media in such a decay, how would the small men and women of this society make the beginning of a tough soul searching to identify and defeat the 'dark siders' who are 'scripting upheavals' here?
HOW?
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Y-E--S
Y-E--S! They make it!!
The third day is even better. We are getting uninterrupted electricity from early morning without a single break of even 1 sec! Stellar performance here!!
Just when I finished posting my last post, light went out. I'd to shut down my computer. But there were lights in all my neighbours houses. So, it was likely to happen that the socket in the transformer connecting my particular line was fused. It was nearing 10 pm. 10 pm is late for workmen(I feel that field staff of the Electricity deptt or any other Govt deptt are jsut workmen--well-meaning workmen) and they, in all probability, plugged the phone cable from the wall socket and gone to bed.
S, I refrained from phoning them. And, I could not go to their office, even if it's just a stone's throw away because of the continuing curfew.
So, I went to bed.
In the morning, when I got up from my bed, I found the light was still out. My thought was: 'Are they going to let a lonely man stray away from his TV or PC, even on a day they found it necessary to impose curfew?' 'Are they going to give a man, even if he is alone and a loner, the incentive(by not giving him the electricity!)to come out to the streets and start making troubles?'
Even when tormented with such dark thoughts, i decided that it was too in the morning to phone them.
Just when I finished toilet and readying to sit down for my breakfast, electricity just abandoned the whole neighbourhood. How did I know it? I knew it from the start of the rumbles of the generators of the mobile towers in the neighbourhood.
My thought: 'So, are they ging to let the whole neighbourhood to stray away from their TVs and PCs and to push them out to the streets?' 'What about the troubles that are likely made by the men and women unplugged from their TVs and PCS!?'
So, there, eating my breakfast, I refused to believe that the power that be would let the whole neighbourhood to stray away from their TVs and PCs on this crucial third day. Remember, this is the third day!
Then, suddenly, an incipient thought started gnawing at me. 'What if they switched off the whole sockets in the transformer to repair that particular fused socket that connects the line to my house?'
'That must be the reason why the electricitry go out so early in the morning unlike those last two days!'
'That must be the reason why all the neighbourhood mobile towers generators start rumbling so early in the morning!'
But such thoughts were incapable of lifting my already collapsed moral. With a heavy heart, I started the procedure to fill myself up with the breakfast!
Hardly had I been into the procedure for, may be, 20 minutes, than I heard the momentary stutters of the neighbourhood mobile towers generators before the beginning of their engines dying out. People killing generators engines. Come one. Involuntarily, I looked inside my rooms.
VOILA! My light was in!
God bless my gut feelings!!
The power that be should not fail us--the people, the mass, the citizens, whatever the terms they like to use!!!
Well, when the afternnon started to die out into a sombre evening, I became weary of my computer and internet. Even then, I refused to stray away from devices which need electricity for their lives!
I turned on music system.
"You found me" by the Fray.
There is somethng in that song. The songs moves me.
POSTSCRIPT: I can't resist asking this ALOUD: 'How is that I descended into this world so elegantly hardhired with such a dependable gut feeling?'
HOW ABOUT THIS?!?
The third day is even better. We are getting uninterrupted electricity from early morning without a single break of even 1 sec! Stellar performance here!!
Just when I finished posting my last post, light went out. I'd to shut down my computer. But there were lights in all my neighbours houses. So, it was likely to happen that the socket in the transformer connecting my particular line was fused. It was nearing 10 pm. 10 pm is late for workmen(I feel that field staff of the Electricity deptt or any other Govt deptt are jsut workmen--well-meaning workmen) and they, in all probability, plugged the phone cable from the wall socket and gone to bed.
S, I refrained from phoning them. And, I could not go to their office, even if it's just a stone's throw away because of the continuing curfew.
So, I went to bed.
In the morning, when I got up from my bed, I found the light was still out. My thought was: 'Are they going to let a lonely man stray away from his TV or PC, even on a day they found it necessary to impose curfew?' 'Are they going to give a man, even if he is alone and a loner, the incentive(by not giving him the electricity!)to come out to the streets and start making troubles?'
Even when tormented with such dark thoughts, i decided that it was too in the morning to phone them.
Just when I finished toilet and readying to sit down for my breakfast, electricity just abandoned the whole neighbourhood. How did I know it? I knew it from the start of the rumbles of the generators of the mobile towers in the neighbourhood.
My thought: 'So, are they ging to let the whole neighbourhood to stray away from their TVs and PCs and to push them out to the streets?' 'What about the troubles that are likely made by the men and women unplugged from their TVs and PCS!?'
So, there, eating my breakfast, I refused to believe that the power that be would let the whole neighbourhood to stray away from their TVs and PCs on this crucial third day. Remember, this is the third day!
Then, suddenly, an incipient thought started gnawing at me. 'What if they switched off the whole sockets in the transformer to repair that particular fused socket that connects the line to my house?'
'That must be the reason why the electricitry go out so early in the morning unlike those last two days!'
'That must be the reason why all the neighbourhood mobile towers generators start rumbling so early in the morning!'
But such thoughts were incapable of lifting my already collapsed moral. With a heavy heart, I started the procedure to fill myself up with the breakfast!
Hardly had I been into the procedure for, may be, 20 minutes, than I heard the momentary stutters of the neighbourhood mobile towers generators before the beginning of their engines dying out. People killing generators engines. Come one. Involuntarily, I looked inside my rooms.
VOILA! My light was in!
God bless my gut feelings!!
The power that be should not fail us--the people, the mass, the citizens, whatever the terms they like to use!!!
Well, when the afternnon started to die out into a sombre evening, I became weary of my computer and internet. Even then, I refused to stray away from devices which need electricity for their lives!
I turned on music system.
"You found me" by the Fray.
There is somethng in that song. The songs moves me.
POSTSCRIPT: I can't resist asking this ALOUD: 'How is that I descended into this world so elegantly hardhired with such a dependable gut feeling?'
HOW ABOUT THIS?!?
Friday, February 20, 2009
The day after
I again spent all day indoors. And I even didn't go out when dusk set in!
Today is the second consecutive day when I got uninterrupte electricity. It went out at around 5 in the evening and came back at around 7. Not bad!
We also got something more--CURFEW.
The police are using public address systems to announce that the curfew starts at 5pm and it ends at 3. Is it 3am or 3pm? I could not hear it properly. I bet it must be 3pm.
I also heard murmurs in the neighbourhood that the other three State Govt employees were also found murdered in different places in Ukhrul district. I could make out only one place where the murdered bodies were found --LITAN.
It's now well passed 9 pm but Ican still hear explosions of mock bombs used by the police to disperse crowd. That means there are mobs roaming on the streets.
The sound of the explosions mainly come from the direction of Uripok.
Today is the second consecutive day when I got uninterrupte electricity. It went out at around 5 in the evening and came back at around 7. Not bad!
We also got something more--CURFEW.
The police are using public address systems to announce that the curfew starts at 5pm and it ends at 3. Is it 3am or 3pm? I could not hear it properly. I bet it must be 3pm.
I also heard murmurs in the neighbourhood that the other three State Govt employees were also found murdered in different places in Ukhrul district. I could make out only one place where the murdered bodies were found --LITAN.
It's now well passed 9 pm but Ican still hear explosions of mock bombs used by the police to disperse crowd. That means there are mobs roaming on the streets.
The sound of the explosions mainly come from the direction of Uripok.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Real surreal!
The day I got back my phone, I spent the night surfing the net like a maniac! I so enjoyed that because I was deprived of the WEb service for several weeks. I got no time for blogging!
But I was determined to get back to blogging the following night.
In the afternoon, I went to Uripok to meet a friend. There, I got the news of the triple of the buereurocrats of the STate government posted out to Kasom Khullen in Ukhrul district. When I went there a vigorous road blockade was being put up by the citizen of that locality.
I felt sad--completely exasperated. I let the night passed by me --completely wasted. I even felt like losing my moorings, even if it was for a short spell of time.
Today, I spent inddors all throughout the day. I was keeping up with the daily grinds--like, breakfasting, showering, cleaning utensils, preapring and eating meals!
Only when the dusk set in, I ventured out into the streets. My first impression was that there was (and still is) spontaneous outpouring of grief by the general public. If a bandh can called 'total', this is it.
I even encountered several marriage parties on their way home proudly decking the brides in their midst. All the parties were still led by the customary orchestral bands--but they were not playing their music. Instead, they seemed to be bowing their heads to honour the departed souls. Awesome sights.
I have also this feeling that there would be similar outpouring of grief by the folks in the hills as well.
It's quite apparent that there is a gang, powerful and ruthless, trying to steer the society away from the path which is likely to hurt their interest. We can see the hands of the same gang in the bomb blast in ISKCON temple, murdering of migrant labourers, recent shooting down of a journalist and now, the killings of the three buereurocrats.
The only consolation is that non-state actors are ruling the roost in today's world. African pirates are plundering the ships of powerful nations. Mafias are operating across several national boundaries, that too of developed and powerful ones.
The sad irony is that the gang operating here will get more powerful and daring in prportion to the size of the 'developmental funds' from the federal government. May be, 'development' has its own dark side.
As i'm typing this, the atmosphere is really surreal(real surreal!). See, one powerful group is scripting upheavals by murdering innocent people. What's the response of those responsible sections, like those in the governemnt?
Their response---give uniterrupted electricity for some days, let them stay indoors infront of their tvs and computers so that there would not troubles brewing up in the streets!!
We got uninterrupted power supply all throughout the day and night!!
In the preceeding weeks, we hardly got two hours of that scarce commodity, even during the day time.
Real surreal!
But I was determined to get back to blogging the following night.
In the afternoon, I went to Uripok to meet a friend. There, I got the news of the triple of the buereurocrats of the STate government posted out to Kasom Khullen in Ukhrul district. When I went there a vigorous road blockade was being put up by the citizen of that locality.
I felt sad--completely exasperated. I let the night passed by me --completely wasted. I even felt like losing my moorings, even if it was for a short spell of time.
Today, I spent inddors all throughout the day. I was keeping up with the daily grinds--like, breakfasting, showering, cleaning utensils, preapring and eating meals!
Only when the dusk set in, I ventured out into the streets. My first impression was that there was (and still is) spontaneous outpouring of grief by the general public. If a bandh can called 'total', this is it.
I even encountered several marriage parties on their way home proudly decking the brides in their midst. All the parties were still led by the customary orchestral bands--but they were not playing their music. Instead, they seemed to be bowing their heads to honour the departed souls. Awesome sights.
I have also this feeling that there would be similar outpouring of grief by the folks in the hills as well.
It's quite apparent that there is a gang, powerful and ruthless, trying to steer the society away from the path which is likely to hurt their interest. We can see the hands of the same gang in the bomb blast in ISKCON temple, murdering of migrant labourers, recent shooting down of a journalist and now, the killings of the three buereurocrats.
The only consolation is that non-state actors are ruling the roost in today's world. African pirates are plundering the ships of powerful nations. Mafias are operating across several national boundaries, that too of developed and powerful ones.
The sad irony is that the gang operating here will get more powerful and daring in prportion to the size of the 'developmental funds' from the federal government. May be, 'development' has its own dark side.
As i'm typing this, the atmosphere is really surreal(real surreal!). See, one powerful group is scripting upheavals by murdering innocent people. What's the response of those responsible sections, like those in the governemnt?
Their response---give uniterrupted electricity for some days, let them stay indoors infront of their tvs and computers so that there would not troubles brewing up in the streets!!
We got uninterrupted power supply all throughout the day and night!!
In the preceeding weeks, we hardly got two hours of that scarce commodity, even during the day time.
Real surreal!
Got it.02
The day before yesterday, in the afternoon, I was actually startled by the sound of my phone ringing, which, by the way, had been completely dead for at least 2 weeks then.
The phone guy, known universally as the 'lineman',was on the line telling me that I was the first subscriber getting back the service. That's some records of sort! I was the first guy in my locality, which is facing blanket disruption in phone service since November last year--that's me getting the first service reconnection now!
It's apparent that this time the underground cables were not broken by construction machineries but, by thier own staff to transfer all the lines to a brand new fat pipe. In a sense, they are doing the underground cabling all over again.
Now, I guess we would get better service.
The phone guy, known universally as the 'lineman',was on the line telling me that I was the first subscriber getting back the service. That's some records of sort! I was the first guy in my locality, which is facing blanket disruption in phone service since November last year--that's me getting the first service reconnection now!
It's apparent that this time the underground cables were not broken by construction machineries but, by thier own staff to transfer all the lines to a brand new fat pipe. In a sense, they are doing the underground cabling all over again.
Now, I guess we would get better service.
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