Fiction: Sriman is terrified after witnessing an incident he shouldn’t have

The huge structure was rising daily before his eyes. Many shops and apartments were already booked. The work was progressing very rapidly, and like a man in a trance, Sriman started to look after everything in the minutest detail. His father began visiting the site occasionally. His father had also taken up the job of commission booking of flats and commercial spaces in the building. He spent his days now meeting friends and acquaintances trying to convince them to invest in the project.

Sriman was greatly amused at this.

It was decided that Sriman’s family would be allotted two large shops below and two apartments on the upper floors. The apartments were not very big. They were modest with about fifteen hundred square feet of carpet space each. Ramen said he would lay the floors of the flats with good marble and tiles and install Jaquar fittings in the toilets. Even the two shops – his brother’s consultation chamber and his pharmacy – would be done up free of cost. What if a little modest, the apartments would turn out to be beautiful ones on the fifth floor with wide balconies. The terrace was also free for use. The matter of cash payment...

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