Children still in school had no white pages to offer, just pages torn off from exercise note books did the record with pens varying in thickness and colour in accordance with the ones used at the time of making entries.
There was pay fixation, I knew but account transfer was yet to be effected. I left Delhi to meet my ailing mother. Once in Lamka, I felt the need of a septic toilet-cum-bathroom. In the meantime the arrears were in my account. In an age of atm cards. Its so easy to spend. And I used the money to get an all together new unit incurring not less than INR 60000/-
That was way back in 2011 (or was it 2012?)