Huzefa Kapasi wrote: noteable among them being one revolving restaurant in mg road called topkapi owned by amjad khan. i once puked in its toilets after getting excessively drunk on gin and tonic -- my first instance of throwing up on alcohol. my father had some unconventional methods of raising kids.

Huzefa Kapasi wrote:my (deceased) father owned a plot in halol (now we own it). even he did not know its whereabouts for my uncle was carrying its deed in the ill fated A320 flight of bangalore, 1990. maybe in my future trips to bangalore i might be able to trace it. i need to learn dakhini to be able to converse with the land records office goons.
if i find and sell it, it will probably foot the higher education bill of both my kids. this is going to be an adventure.

doofus_maximus wrote:
LOLu.. good luck with learning Dakhni.

the land is probably long gone. some politician or industrialist must have grabbed it for development purposes.

PS: 50 plus replies on the post that I started. Most of them unrelated to the main topic. So you guys consider me irrelevant eh.. so be it.

Huzefa Kapasi wrote:noteable among them being one revolving restaurant in mg road called topkapi owned by amjad khan.

doofus_maximus wrote:the land is probably long gone. some politician or industrialist must have grabbed it for development purposes.

Huzefa Kapasi wrote:

doofus_maximus wrote:the land is probably long gone. some politician or industrialist must have grabbed it for development purposes.

you are right. laws of adverse posession also apply if somone else has been in possession of it (esp. if it is for agricultural use -- halol is partly agricultural i hear). but i have a feeling it is intact. my father had bought it along with a tamilian friend and his plot and ours were adjacent. i did not even know about it till a year or so before my father's demise when the tamilian friend came into contact with my father and enquired if he wished to sell it to him & that he would take care of the paperwork. strangely my father seemed disinterested and brushed him off. shortly after my father's demise, the gent contacted me but i too brushed him off as my mind was preoccupied. everyone has either died or moved in the intervening period. but i have a way to contact that gent who i think is still alive and he must have guarded this property. i will contact his nephew, once my close friend and who is now in the us, via email today and restart the chapter.

Kris wrote: Reminds me that I need to check with my dad about some land he said he bought in an area where a lot of IT stuff is happening now, in chennai. We were driving by once and took a brief detour at his suggestion to show me where it was, but couldn't pinpoint the plot. Hope he has the paperwork somewhere.

Huzefa Kapasi wrote:

doofus_maximus wrote:the land is probably long gone. some politician or industrialist must have grabbed it for development purposes.

you are right. laws of adverse posession also apply if somone else has been in possession of it (esp. if it is for agricultural use -- halol is partly agricultural i hear). but i have a feeling it is intact. my father had bought it along with a tamilian friend and his plot and ours were adjacent. i did not even know about it till a year or so before my father's demise when the tamilian friend came into contact with my father and enquired if he wished to sell it to him & that he would take care of the paperwork. strangely my father seemed disinterested and brushed him off. shortly after my father's demise, the gent contacted me but i too brushed him off as my mind was preoccupied. everyone has either died or moved in the intervening period. but i have a way to contact that gent who i think is still alive and he must have guarded this property. i will contact his nephew, once my close friend and who is now in the us, via email today and restart the chapter.

Huzefa Kapasi wrote:ha ha, sure!

Huzefa Kapasi wrote:ha ha, sure! i did send an email to my friend yesterday and promptly he called me back. there seems to be hope.