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ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು, ನವೆಂಬರ್ 13: ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾರೀ ಚರ್ಚೆಗೆ ಕಾರಣವಾಗಿದ್ದು, ಮಹರ್ಷಿ ವಾಲ್ಮೀಕಿ ಪರಿಶಿಷ್ಟ ಪಂಗಡಗಳ ಅಭಿವೃದ್ಧಿ ನಿಗಮದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದಿದೆ ಎನ್ನಲಾದ ಅಕ್ರಮ ಹಣ ವರ್ಗಾವಣೆ ಪ್ರಕರಣ. ಈ ಪ್ರಕರಣದ ತನಿಖೆಯನ್ನು ಸಿಬಿಐಗೆ ವಹಿಸಬೇಕು ಎಂದು ರಿಟ್ ಅರ್ಜಿ ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆಯಾಗಿತ್ತು. ಈ ಅರ್ಜಿಯನ್ನು ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಹೈಕೋರ್ಟ್ ವಜಾಗೊಳಿಸಿದೆ. ಈ ಕುರಿತು ಯೂನಿಯನ್ ಬ್ಯಾಂಕ್ ಸಲ್ಲಿಕೆ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದ ರಿಟ್ ಅರ್ಜಿಯ

A sermon on the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women reveals shocking news!

This morning I awoke to find a claim published in the Mail that I was not a sex worker. 


It is a direct attack on my integrity as a writer, to claim that I lied. And I have been prepared.

When the case goes to trial, I will have to present evidence that I was a sex worker. Starting with this - an Archive.org snap of my first escorting ad from October 2003 (link NSFW).

(Readers of the first book may recall this was the session with the grumpy photographer I wrote about. As I have often said, it was that experience - being made to wear terrible lingerie, awkward poses, all the rest - that first made me think, 'hey, I should be blogging this.'

And if you read the third book, I made a reference to a restaurant on Old Compton Street that has the same name as my working name - that is, of course, Taro.)

I will also be presenting my bank records from 2003-04, showing the cash deposits from the money I earned as an escort, and tax records from the same years showing that this income was declared to HMRC and tax paid. Here is a sample:

 
I also have the notebook in which I recorded details of appointments, etc. In several instances I have been able to piece together entries from the notebook, deposits to my accounts, and the corresponding entries in the book. If pressed, I will name a client, but only as a last resort.

The Mail also claims I didn't own nice enough clothes so couldn't have been an escort!


That's from December 2003, and is the same red silk top I wore to meet the manager for the first time (as written about in the first book). The next is at Henley Regatta in July 2004, suit is from Austin Reed, the bracelet was a gift from a client.



The Mail claims I was in Sheffield when writing the blog, but I moved to London in September 2003 and started escorting in October, starting blogging a few weeks later. All of which is easy - trivial, even - to prove.

Oh, and the "former landlady in Sheffield, who did not wish to be named", where I supposedly lived for three years? Who apparently saw me in 'Oxfam jumpers'? Hmm... I lived one year in university accommodation (St George's Flats),  one year in a shared flat with an absentee landlord I never met (Hawthorne Road), and one year on my own in a house let through an agency (Loxley New Road). All well before moving to London. So either the landlady is lying about the timing of my tenancy and having met me, or (shock, horror) they made it up.

There's much more but it would be boring to put it all here. It's amazing to me the MoS made no effort at all to match anything they printed against things that are easy to find and in the public domain. But that's by the by, and will come out in due course.

It matters because this is a concerted and direct attack on my work as a writer. When I was anonymous, being real was my main - my only - advantage. The Mail on Sunday have made some frankly nonsense claims, and I will be going to town on this.

Because I know people do not trust the word of a sex worker, that is why I saved everything.

I look forward to the opportunity to rebut all claims in court. (The MoS claim the trial is expected "within weeks." In fact it is scheduled for June 2015.)

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News reader applications like Feedly or Flipboard are great for browsing and even searching through news items, but they lack the ability to send notifications proactively.  Emails from Google Alerts can be tardy, and at other times, articles can slip by completely.

Never fear!  Used together, two web applications, IFTTT and Feed Rinse,  solve this problem easily.

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