Life@D-138, Part-III

I literally enjoyed working at Innodata and whenever I found time, we (me, Saurabh, and Nitu Bhaiya) talked only about Innodata at length and not anything else. Nitu Bhaiya liked English movies a lot and we our usual Bollywood ishtyle, so there was always a tussle between the three of us. He was a software junkie and used to spend sleepless nights while we rested our souls in the heavenly abode of D-138. That place meant a lots to us as we often felt as if we can spend our whole life-time here, much to the agony of our dear landlord. He always objected to our loud-music parties, which were pretty rare and had given us clear instructions that gals are not-at-all allowed in his house, which we often thought of owning.

As my Merc was getting older and older day-by-day, we often discussed the possibility of owning a joint car but to the chagrin of every one of us, we always went against that, considering our background of middle class families. Everyone used to say that how would the partition of such a joint property would take place, once we get married. Marriage was never on our minds but then every middle-class family boy thinks of that one day. The statement goes like: There is no point in remaining happy always, you should get married also. But, due to constant commutation problem, Saurabh decided to purchase a new 150cc mobike and I resolved to get my Merc repaired. Out of these two, one thing happened and the other is till getting to be done. The mobike costed somewhere around 50,000 INR and going by the salaries Innodata paid us, it was all but to get the bike cash-down. So, I offered an investment of 30, 000 INR and the rest was managed by Saurabh. So, me and Saurabh decided to put our hands on a navy blue Bajaj bike but with a condition that we want that to be delivered the same day we will pay the amount. As always, our destiny was against us and the dealer refused to deliver the navy-blue bike the same day, as he quoted some sort of shortage of the much publicized Hamara Bajaj bike. However, the dealer offered a black bike of the same model, which could be ours at once. Son, bang we decided and the black beauty was ours (I mean, Saurabh’s). The commutation problem was going to get solved, much to the disdain of any one of us, as one have to take a rickshaw any way to the office. We rotated turns and everyone enjoyed the rides, both of the black beauty and the rickshaw.

Innodata was about to get a new project that required a new leader to guide. Some guys were called to teach us the nitty-gritty of new project and eventually, choose a leader. I was considered too precious for my project (at least I thought so), so Saurabh was chosen to manage the project and giving him company was a PYT. Both were nominated by the company, which rose our importance of both of us in the organization. Both of us, being roommates, were considered to work very hard for our respective projects and our bosses also showed utter faith in both of us. Our responsibilities went on increasing and so did our liking for our job. We spend almost 12 hours in the office, returning just to have dinner and sleep. At some point of time, we were even called to attend offices at midnight when the servers crashed, considering the fact that our D-138 was located pretty near to Innodata.