A 72-year-old Indian expat from Kerala, who won the hearts of Emirati and Arab writers and journalists, has left the UAE after 44 years.
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00:00This is very sharp, very dangerous than any bomb, pen.
00:05Pen can change the world.
00:09Pen can change the people.
00:13You know, weapon cannot change anybody.
00:17Weapon can spoil the people.
00:20But the pen, you can change. Writer can change.
00:24I came here 1977, July 24th, you know, Port Rashid, seaport.
00:38I came from Bombay.
00:40By ship, after five days, I arrived in seaport in Dubai.
00:46Okay.
00:48First I joined in Madrasatul Muhallab.
00:52I am in Madrasa, you know, Muhallab school in Dubai.
00:56I worked there in ten months.
00:59So I left this job and came to Sharjah.
01:02And I worked in a building.
01:05Okay, six years, six and a half years here.
01:08After I came here, Emirates Righteous Union.
01:14Emirates Righteous Union, 1984.
01:19September 1, I joined in Emirates Righteous Union.
01:23Still now, I am working in Emirates Righteous Union.
01:26Now I resigned the job.
01:29The reason, because now I am 72 years old.
01:33In Emirates Righteous Union, they not agree to resign me.
01:41They told me to stay here more, more, more years.
01:44But I cannot continue.
01:46This is the problem, you know.
01:48The age, old age, I cannot work now.
01:51So I want to leave the UAE.
01:55But I don't want in here.
01:58In my heart, I want to stay here more, up to die in UAE.
02:03Because I love these people too much.
02:06When I joined the Emirates Righteous Union, I told you,
02:09I read all the newspaper and gathered
02:12any news about the Emirates Righteous Union
02:15or any news about the writers,
02:18especially in our member, I gather and keep it in a file.
02:23Okay.
02:24And you know, my profession, you know,
02:27I am working here as an office boy.
02:29You know, the office boy, what I have to do.
02:31This, you know, everybody know, one office boy, what he have to do.
02:35So I do everything.
02:38The people, when the people come here,
02:41I make for them coffee and tea and everything.
02:44I make them for them, you see.
02:47This is my job, real job.
02:50And the people, you know, they never,
02:53they never, you know, feel I am an office boy.
02:56They never talk like this.
02:58If you suppose, if anybody call me,
03:00in Arabic, if anybody ask me,
03:03in Arabic, who speaking,
03:06then if I say I am an office boy Emirates Righteous Union
03:09or in Arabic, I am a Farrashi.
03:12They are very angry.
03:15Why you speak like that?
03:17You are our brother.
03:19You are our brother.
03:21You never speak like that.
03:24This is your job.
03:26This is your job.
03:28Don't think like that.
03:29You are office boy.
03:30We never think about you, you are office boy.
03:33You know, memories.
03:35All the memories about me.
03:38And what they need here.
03:40You know, everything in my mind,
03:42I have something write and keep it in my home.
03:45When I return to my home,
03:47I have a lot of time to write and everything.
03:49I hope, I hope, you know,
03:52if my health agree for everything,
03:54I am ready to write.