Friends this is Shwetabh from Delhi. Here I look forward for help from Indi of a very grand scale. The people of delhi must have heard/ read about Mr. Sahay, the old man who sells puppets at CP, A Block. There are various blogs / facebook pages about him and various people pledge to help him.
Read his story here : http://www.thedelhiwalla.com/2011/08/25/mission-delhi-%E2%80%93-pm-sahay-connaught-place/
This feb I met him and the pic I took of him generated huge response (100+ likes, 100+ shares and close to 60 comments).
Buoyed by the response, Me and Dipali sharma ( another Indi member) went this 6th April to know the full story from the man himself and how we could help him. These are the current facts about him irrespective of whats written earlier -
Mr. Sahay has now shifted to Bahadurgarh. The bank in which he used to work was an American bank which is no longer in operation. Against the pension amount, he already had taken money to construct his house,marry off his daughter (who resides in Delhi). He doesnt have any details about his son`s passport number or certificate ( passport was not made by the time of his knowledge and documents were with his son as he was applying to various jobs).
There is NO confirmed news of his son`s death(as some blog accounts read). He doesnt believe in his son`s death and neither does his wife. He thought that maybe his son & daughter in law came to delhi to look for office space. Told earlier also, he supports his wife and married daughter with her kids ( her husband become unemployed and left her).
He is found in CP, A block. On the odd days when business is not good, the max. he can go is B block. The delhi metro helps him by giving him the services of the wheelchair. Now he doesn`t go to Old delhi railway station to collect the puppets. The man helps him by giving the puppets him there at CP. The man keeps only a very small amount with himself of the sale and gives the rest to Mr. Sahay.
Mr. Sahay now doesnt want to be a burden on him ( he greatly acknowldeges the help). When we asked him what he wants to do if people wanted to help him ( also told him the response his pic generated). He says that puppet selling is not viable due to his health & also because of his helper. All he wants is some office space in DELHI where he can get some agency/ dealership of some kind. That would be a much better option than the present. Me and Dipali have his number but we wont be sharing it here due to the fact that some elements are making a fun of him and saying a lot of negative things.
Inspite of him being a bit vary of the pics clicked by people and misused, he agreed for a snap when he saw the help which we were trying to do. So now that you know what he wants, please come out with your ideas and lets decide something by which we can turn this help into reality.. We have his son`s name and the tentative year of his passing out, can any CA friends chip in with the limited info we have?
What help we are really looking forward to -
1. Any CA friends who can help in knowing the whereabouts of his son in India/ Bahrain.
2. An office space in Delhi.
3. Any agency/dealer/distributorship of any kind.
The 2nd and 3rd points are charities of huge proportions and so we are looking forward to huge response in this regard. We have seen the dissapointment in his eyesand we truly wish to visit him again only when we have any update / progress in this regard (and soon too).
So who is coming forward in helping? Its time bloggers came forward and helped.
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