A Comet's Voyage

I really don't know whether the title of the blog is really appropriate for the story that I am going to post here. It will not showcase my talent as a blogger to think something else and publish it in front of my viewers but it will surely test my skill whether I am a good story teller or not? It is a real story that I heard from one of my colleagues at my new office, Webfil limited. His name is Mr. Abhijit Chatterjee, around 55 years of age. He told me about a real incident that happened in his life in the year of 1978-79 when he was off to the then Bombay for some training.

In that training many foreign students and professors also came. They were staying in a dormitory at a rent of Rs. 2. No man it is not a joke but that was the rent of the dormitory at that time which includes fooding and lodging. But in return they had to do some work like gardening or washing bathrooms. Every day they were assigned a job which they had to do during their free time. On one day Mr. Abhijit Chatterjee was assigned a job of cleaning the bathrooms along with a foreigner whom he did not know prior to the job. He was given brooms, washing soda and buckets to complete the job. he went to the bathrooms and wandering where was his partner? After waiting for sometimes, he started his job in not so good intentions. He was trying to complete his job as early as possible. In the mean time a foreigner entered and shook hands with him and with out losing his time started his job. And he was doing the job like he was cleaning his own bathrooms. Mr. Chatterjee was just spellbound how much effort he was giving in the job. More shock was present for him. Latter he came to know that the foreigner was the HOD of Economics department of Oxford University. My God hearing this I just fell down from my chair.

On the next day he was assigned the job of clearing stones from garden. He gathered those and made small small heap which looked quite nice. In return some British commented that he is doing job like British people not like Indians.

On that night, some french girl invited him to sleep with them. After dinner he went to their room and felt asleep. Next morning when he woke all girls had left. If there happened any mystery that night I did not know. Jokes apart.

But it gave me a lesson that if a HOD of Oxford University was enthusiastic in cleaning bathrooms of dormitory then I must perform my physical job at my office whole heartedly. That is the reason why I have given this title.