I have some relatives who suffered a lot of loss in property deals and had to sell their own land and houses to give back the mo ney invested by others and had to finally leave Mangalore because of the gossip and anger it created in people . It was mainly because they had no experience and started big rather than take one step at a time that the venture failed and not because they were cheats . However , now after more than a decade the family is trying to rebuild and are back in Mangalore but I see many people still spreading malicious rumors and bringing up old issues ,going to the extent of calling them criminals . I feel such behavior is very bad , hitting people below the belt is not a nice thing to do esp when they have paid the price for their mistake and are sorry. I find most people have a negative attitude towards others when such issues come up. They fail to think that such things can happen with anyone , one of their own too...