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Leaving UAE after 44 years: Meet Indian expat who won the hearts of Emirati and Arab writers
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2/15/2025
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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00:00
This is very sharp, very dangerous than any bomb, pen.
00:05
Pen can change the world.
00:09
Pen can change the people.
00:13
You know, weapon cannot change anybody.
00:17
Weapon can spoil the people.
00:20
But the pen, you can change. Writer can change.
00:24
I came here 1977, July 24th, you know, Port Rashid, seaport.
00:38
I came from Bombay.
00:40
By ship, after five days, I arrived in seaport in Dubai.
00:46
Okay.
00:48
First I joined in Madrasatul Muhallab.
00:52
I am in Madrasa, you know, Muhallab school in Dubai.
00:56
I worked there in ten months.
00:59
So I left this job and came to Sharjah.
01:02
And I worked in a building.
01:05
Okay, six years, six and a half years here.
01:08
After I came here, Emirates Righteous Union.
01:14
Emirates Righteous Union, 1984.
01:19
September 1, I joined in Emirates Righteous Union.
01:23
Still now, I am working in Emirates Righteous Union.
01:26
Now I resigned the job.
01:29
The reason, because now I am 72 years old.
01:33
In Emirates Righteous Union, they not agree to resign me.
01:41
They told me to stay here more, more, more years.
01:44
But I cannot continue.
01:46
This is the problem, you know.
01:48
The age, old age, I cannot work now.
01:51
So I want to leave the UAE.
01:55
But I don't want in here.
01:58
In my heart, I want to stay here more, up to die in UAE.
02:03
Because I love these people too much.
02:06
When I joined the Emirates Righteous Union, I told you,
02:09
I read all the newspaper and gathered
02:12
any news about the Emirates Righteous Union
02:15
or any news about the writers,
02:18
especially in our member, I gather and keep it in a file.
02:23
Okay.
02:24
And you know, my profession, you know,
02:27
I am working here as an office boy.
02:29
You know, the office boy, what I have to do.
02:31
This, you know, everybody know, one office boy, what he have to do.
02:35
So I do everything.
02:38
The people, when the people come here,
02:41
I make for them coffee and tea and everything.
02:44
I make them for them, you see.
02:47
This is my job, real job.
02:50
And the people, you know, they never,
02:53
they never, you know, feel I am an office boy.
02:56
They never talk like this.
02:58
If you suppose, if anybody call me,
03:00
in Arabic, if anybody ask me,
03:03
in Arabic, who speaking,
03:06
then if I say I am an office boy Emirates Righteous Union
03:09
or in Arabic, I am a Farrashi.
03:12
They are very angry.
03:15
Why you speak like that?
03:17
You are our brother.
03:19
You are our brother.
03:21
You never speak like that.
03:24
This is your job.
03:26
This is your job.
03:28
Don't think like that.
03:29
You are office boy.
03:30
We never think about you, you are office boy.
03:33
You know, memories.
03:35
All the memories about me.
03:38
And what they need here.
03:40
You know, everything in my mind,
03:42
I have something write and keep it in my home.
03:45
When I return to my home,
03:47
I have a lot of time to write and everything.
03:49
I hope, I hope, you know,
03:52
if my health agree for everything,
03:54
I am ready to write.
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