Mumbai man charging rent from the ghost living in his flat

Mumbai man charging rent from the ghost living in his flat

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In what could be called a bizarre side-effect of soaring real estate prices in Mumbai, Dhanpat Agrawal, a city based management executive is charging rent from a ghost living in his flat.
Bhootiya Gupta, the unfortunate ghost, earlier used to live in a deserted fort outside Mumbai. Bored of monotonous life of the fort, he decided to move to the city and took shelter in Dhanpat’s flat.

“It’s 5th of May, where is last month’s rent?”

“I thought, I would get away with it. But to my surprise, Dhanpat shamelessly asked me to share flat’s rent if I wanted to live there. Who the hell behaves so rudely with a ghost?” wondered Bhootiya recalling his first meeting with Dhanpat.
Feeling insulted, Bhootiya initially refused to accept Dhanpat’s offer claiming that it was the fundamental right of a ghost to live somewhere without paying a rent.
“Not only he refused to acknowledge this right, Dhanpat told me that if I continued to live in his house without paying rent, he would stop getting afraid of me!” Bhootiya disclosed the mental torture he had to go through.
Stumped by Dhanpat’s resistance, Bhootiya started looking for a new house, where he was offered similar deals by Mumbai residents. Finally, unable to find a rent-free space, he settled down in Dhanpat’s house after a formal agreement to pay half of the rent.
To many, it may look like a case of human atrocity on the innocent ghost community who are habituated of living in houses without paying a penny, but Dhanpat doesn’t think so.
“Man, it’s too expensive to get a flat in Mumbai. I can’t share it just for free with anyone!” said Dhanpat while talking to Faking News. Dhanpat is also planning to recover half of the brokerage amount from Bhootiya.
Sociologists and thinkers feel that such a business based friendship between a human and a ghost could harm the social fabric and the idea of India.
However, as per Dhanpat, he shares a normal human-ghost relationship with Bhootiya. “I remain afraid of him and scream out of fear every single time I see him, which makes him very happy. It’s perfectly balanced and all is well here!” Dhanpat claimed.
Meanwhile, on suggestion of a friend, Dhanpat is planning to start a brokerage firm which will help ghosts to find suitable flats in Mumbai.
“As ghosts require almost zero physical space to live, I think many families would be ready to share their flat with them. Besides helping people earn few extra bucks to cope with high rentals, it will also make their life a bit more adventurous,” explained Dhanpat.

Ghosts are shy and introvert

Ghosts are shy and introvert

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A research paper published in a leading international science journal by an Indian origin scientist, Dr. Bhootnath, claims that ghosts are intrinsically shy and introvert.
Dr. Bhootnath, who has spent years researching on behavior of ghosts and ghouls, has cited some valid reasons to support his conclusion. Few of them are listed here:

“I am what I am”

1. Like any other normal introvert person, ghosts enjoy solitude. They love to live alone in deserted bungalows and old forts. They hate socializing and prefer to spend time alone. Probably that’s why you never find them at crowded places like discotheques and shopping malls.
2. They avoid doing attention seeking things. For example, look at their clothes. With so much power, they could easily manage to get top brand outfits, but they don’t. No ghost yet seen in Gucci or Armani suits, but so many in simple white unbranded sarees. They are simply not comfortable with people staring at them.
3. Introverts are good listeners, so are the ghosts. They listen to people all them time, without even letting them know. They sit quietly in a corner of room and watch people talking for hours – without taking part in the conversation.
4. They like to think a lot and choose their word carefully before speaking. They just don’t like to talk crap. Be it making gothic sounds or sending some impactful message, they only use well-thought-of words. Talkative ghosts are very rare.
5. They believe in deep and meaningful relationships. If they decide to come after you, it’s hell of a job to get rid of them. Even in movies, you must have noticed that they focus on destroying only one family. Introverts too have very few relationships, and those few have strong bond.
6. Like a typical introvert, ghosts too dislike conflict. In fact, they hate it so much that they often kill people to end the conflict.
7. Ghosts prefer to work alone and and are not a big fan of team work. That’s why incidents of ghosts attacking in group are hardly reported. They move alone and hunt alone. Although, some exceptions are there, like a ghost woman being seen with her ghost child.
8. Like an introvert, ghosts often express themselves through writing. There are many cases of ghosts scribbling words on walls to pass their message. If required they even use blood of others to do that, they are so passionate about writing.