Mithra

Boring work-life and no life outside work ! As I listen to “Malare ninne kanathirundhal…” from the Malayalam movie Premam, my mind goes back to my days of working as a Technical writer in Bengaluru. Well, I had watched this movie on my office laptop between editing articles and documents. Let me admit that I cannot understand Malayalam, although I can recognize just a few words. Yet this song makes me fall in love with the voice of Vijay Yesudas again and again. Bengaluru… my city, my home that I left behind on July 24 th last year. I miss it terribly! Last year on the same day, I was cribbing about the traffic on ITPL road, when crossing Graphite India signal was like opening the doors to heaven. Back then, I was working for the first time in life and it felt good for a few months. As engineers we are always eager to get out of college and start working. Once we start working, we are cribbing about going back to college. Basically we all suffer from multiple personality di...

Happy Valentine’s Day I hit the send button and heaved a sigh of relief. I had at last finished the project report and mailed it to my manager. But my relief was short-lived because the clock on my screen showed the time - 19.10! A good 19 hours and 10 minutes delay! Damn! I had missed the deadline again and this was the second time in the past six months. The HR manager would certainly highlight this in the appraisal although I had met 27 other deadlines very sincerely during the same period. But I would worry about this some other time because I wanted to just relish this moment of finishing that report. I logged into my Facebook account and there it was screaming on my laptop screen: Happy Valentine’s Day! I was scrolling down even before I finished reading the second word. I was aware that today was Valentine’s Day because there was no way the E-commerce portals and advertisements would let you forget the day. I knew that there would be no message from Nanda,...