Suresh was born in a slum area. His mother was a maid servant and father, a junior carpenter in a local furniture shop. One day during a political campaign, the slum area children were shown a film for free. Suresh had never seen a film on such a big screen and he considered that incident to be the happiest moment of his life. The hero of the film was basically playing the role of Robinhood – the fairy tale character who used to rob the rich and distribute the…
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CMC Ltd.
Tenure : 7 months. Salt Lake Branch. My salary was Rs.2500/- (Two thousand five hundred only. 3 lates = one absent – so my average take home was – around Rs.2000/- to 1800/- per month ! So—here I was – kind of back to square one !! Look at my salary life cycle >> 1500/- (Trend India)> 1000/- (Inspiration Advt. Agency) > 1600/- (Salora) > 800/-(School) > 3000/- (The Park) > 3500/- (HCL Infosystems) > 2500/- (CMC Ltd.). Another girl who was a counselor as well was around…
Read MoreHCL – Frontline – continued
continued from previous page…….. It happened suddenly – I got over Him – absolutely, completely! Suddenly !….he had mentioned that if we do not tie the knot by April 2000, we will never get married– NEVER—coz’ Mother will not allow our marriage anymore if it delays any further than Poila Baishak (14th April) of 2000 ! Well – I do not want to get married – I thought! Not required. 12th June,1999 it was – I got down from the Charted Bus – gave him one last look –…
Read MoreHCL Infosystems
Tenure : 8 months. After sitting at home for about 4 – 5 months I got a call from NIIT by some Raja who asked me to come down to Royd Street regarding placement. He told me of the 2 available options : HCL and Daewoo (car). I opted for HCL since it was an IT Industry….and moreover I had dreamt some 4-5 months ago that I am entering a big offce with HCL written in steel at the entrance. I went for the interview – got selected –…
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Tenure : 4 months I went to the dingy building (a bit further from Dharmatala’s KC Das) – match box sized offices (imagine from The Park deluxe – spacious office premises – I suddenly came back to where I had started from : Trend India Mktg. kind of Office !There was another guy standing in front of the closed room – the room number I was to report to ! His name was Partha Majumdar. We started to chat and found out that both of us belonged to the…
Read MoreThe Park Kolkata – More incidents
Mother Teresa’s sad demise and the blasting music from ‘SomePlace Else’ The Park made a hell lot of money during Mother Teresa’s death – since all reporters and journalists put up at The Park as it was closer to her residence / orphanage. There was this Mr. Charles Hackworth from the Christian Society – he had become very pally with me – he took my snaps and showed me the pictures of his Grandson, daughter, wife etc. He even presented me The Holy Bible. One day he came up to…
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The ‘Executive Office Celebration’ event : There were 2 xerox machines – one at the Business centre and the other at the Executive Department. I could use any as I was working on a very important Project “Editing the HR manual”. So one such day I reached the Executive Office and they had this huge cake – the biggest I had seen during In-house celebration – which was being cut. I had lot many photocopies to be made so I was standing there when everyone had a big piece –…
Read MoreThe Park – Kolkata
Address : 16 Park Street, Kolkata—700017. Tenure : 1year, 3months Professional Practice (PP) Trainee—3rd Year of GNIIT Curriculum. I joined the Service Industry as a Trainee from NIIT. I went for the Interview and to my surprise I was interviewed by a very pretty looking young Lady Mrs. Malaya Das. She was so young and good looking ! She was the Human Resources Manager at The Park. She had a huge cabin all to herself and she asked me very simple questions about myself. I had gone with another…
Read MoreNorth Point School (Salt Lake, Baishaki)
Tenure : 3 months Designation : Computer Teacher I upgraded my NIIT course from I year to 3 years of GNIIT Curriculum.I even got a watch for upgrading myself – in fact sometimes I think that it was for the watch that I upgraded !! Anyways I was in immense hurry to complete the course. As time was running out . I was already 25 (in 1995) – I had several things running on my mind parallel-y! First & foremost was my marriage with Somnath (Somu). I had…
Read MorePositive Electronics Ltd. – Continued
Life was dragging on when…. One day when I was standing for the bus (to go to Office) I saw Somnath – after about 2 years or so ! He leisurely asked me my Office Telephone . It was the last week of September,1994. In the meantime our maid servant (supplied by my sister residing at Tea Gardens) went raving mad ! – She used to be fed by our other maids – she stopped working and used to watch TV only. One day while my parents were watching…
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