Write about someone telling their family they won’t be continuing the long-standing family business.

Mehranpur is a big village, situated near a national highway and about hundred kilometres away from the national capital. There are small and big farmers in the village. Being proximity to the capital, Mehranpur has mostly pucca houses and concrete roads, better drinking water facilities, a Degree College etc.

Due to proximity to metropolis and increasing urbanisation day by day, land prices are skyrocketed in the adjoining areas. Mehranpur too is affected by this land development.

Due to increased urbanisation, character of this village has also been changed and political and criminal activities are taking place in the peaceful atmosphere of Mehranpur. With time, many small land farmers have sold their agricultural land to the builders on high prices and moved to the cities to live a lavish lifestyle there.

Ranvir Singh is the biggest land owner farmer of two hundred acres land in Mehranpur who is also a headman of the village and therefore, has immense respect and influence among the village community. Ranvir Singh lives along with his four younger brothers and his joint family is of odd thirty six members. Agriculture is the family business of Ranvir Singh who owns it with his brothers, nephews and younger son except his eldest son who is doing a small scale business in the city against the family's desire

Despite of increased urbanisation in the village, Ranvir Singh and his brothers are still holding this family business with dedication and affection, considering it heritage of their ancestors who had settled here many decades ago and is considered to be the oldest living family of the village.

Jorawar Singh is a petty farmer and is also involved in the business of property. Besides, he is also involved in political activities in the area. He is a cunning man and is jealous of Ranvir Singh for his respect in the village. Due to it, he always find ways to humiliate Ranvir Singh.

Ranvir Singh vast land falls near to the highway and has been an attraction for various property developers. But, Ranvir Singh has always refused the proposals of developers in the past and opted for to stick to the family business.

Jorawar Singh, a middle man of a multinational company, is also eager to take the precious land of Ranvir Singh and his family.

The whole world is also going through an economic crisis and due to recession in prices, agriculture is also suffered badly. Due to political tensions, import-export is also badly affected. Bad monsoon season has also aggravated the problems for farmers. Agricultural production has also been slowed down during the recent years.

Government's apathy also escalated the tension among the farmers of the country. All political parties are clueless to deal with this crisis.

All farmers are seeing their future bleak in this crisis.

Mehranpur,too, is affected by this recession and agrarian community of the village is suffering badly due to this crisis. Ranvir Singh and his family is also feeling the heat of the crisis. Like others, he is too worried about the future of his coming generations. He is holding meetings with his villagemen and today,too, he has convened a meeting at his home in this regard.

(In a meeting)

Ranvir Singh: Brothers! We have assembled here to discuss the critical situation we all are going through. This crisis includes-

* Our pending dues from closed mills.

*Less support price of our crops.

* High interest rates of loan.

Continuing his address, Ranvir Singh further elaborates the pitiable condition of farmers, particularly small land owners who are living on the brink of poverty. Further, due to high interest rates, our farmers are adopting ways of suicide. This pitiable condition has also threatened the survival of the big farmers who are struggling hard to maintain high growth rate of production despite of less demands, Ranvir Singh concludes.

Many others spoke about the crisis. Various ideas were mooted in the meeting and all were agreed to search for new markets to sell their crops and and pressuring mill owners to pay off their pending dues. For establishing a "Farmer Cooperative Bank", Ranvir Singh was appointed as a convenor to proceed in this matter.

Jorawar Singh was also present in this meeting and was looking all activities silently from the corner. He was not happy with the outcome of the meeting and was willing to give a jolt to Ranvir Singh and his plans to protect the interests of farmers.

One day, Jorawar managed to meet Ranvir Singh's youngest brother, Kultar Singh, who was of short temperament. During conversation, Jorawar explained the profits of selling land to land developers. He also hinted at his ancestoral two hundred acres land for sale in the return of high lucrative prices. Kultar Singh was trapped by Jorawar Singh by his charming talk and so, he had created suspicion in Kultar's mind about the profitability of continuing their family business.

That day, Kultar was thinking about it and discussed it with his wife. She was an illiterate lady and so, she agreed to her husband without any argument.

Next day morning, Kultar encountered with Ranvir Singh, his father-like big brother and put a proposal to sell their land before him.

Ranvir Singh got furious and surprised to hear the proposal from his own youngest brother, but, somehow, he controlled his anger and thought better to keep cool himself.

Ranvir Singh: "Kultar! my younger brother, you are too younger to understand a real game behind the sale purchase of this land. Land is our mother. Mother-Goddess! How can we sell our own mother? This is tragic and insult to our ancestors who had given to us to protect their heritage and which has made us to earn respect and influence in the area."

" We all are together to fight any crisis to protect our family business and we are not alone in this crisis. This is a trap of land developers to destroy our agriculture", Ranvir Singh states. But, Kultar Singh was today in no mood to relent.

Hearing a loud and heated discussion, other brothers also joined the chorus and everyone was blaming Ranvir Singh for downfall in their annual income through their family business and they, all, were worried about the future of their children because due to falling income in agriculture, their children would become poor one day. They also feared that their children would not cope up with the changing times in the competitive era and would be destroyed. Therefore, the discussion was continued in Ranvir's family whole day without any conclusion.

On the other hand, Jorawar Singh was planning to break the family bond of Ranvir Singh and therefore, he was trying to bring the entire land of Ranvir Singh in ceilings. For this, he was making a nexus between politics and administration and he got success in his game plan. Meanwhile, he had conveyed to the brothers of Ranvir Singh about proposed ceilings and loss of monetary benefits in exchange of land and suggested them to sell their respective shares of land to land developers immediately to escape from the ceiling plan.

At home, Ranvir Singh, too, was facing a stiff opposition from his own brothers whom he brought up like his own children. At this stage, he was feeling helpless as his own family was not supporting him. All had disowned him on this issue. For many days, this tension prevailed in his home,then seeing no alternative, Ranvir Singh gathered all family members and asked, " Brothers! For decades, our ancestors have been doing our family business and despite all odds, we all are living together to run our agriculture in prosperous manner, but due to changing time, it is becoming difficult for all of us to run this family business and being eldest of the whole family, I, Ranvir Singh, have decided that we all won't be able to continuing the long standing agricultural business of our family, so I request you to take your own share of land equally and live apart also to lead a peaceful life. Sometimes, distances are better to keep healthy relationship." Ranvir Singh concluded his words with tearfully eyes.

Within a day, the entire farm land and ancestral home of Ranvir Singh was divided equally among all brothers and they started living separately.

Since that day, Ranvir Singh called up his two sons and announced that now

we won't be able to continuing the long standing agricultural business of our family.