The letters seem to be dancing and blurring on the computer screen as Digvijay can hardly control the sleep from fatigue of overworking for long hours. “This project needs to be completed anyhow before I go on leave” he has been telling himself. He has been pushing himself to his limits for the whole of this first week of May. The deadline for the project delivery is not till the end of next month. But the testers need around one month time to test the program files of the application he is developing for a renowned multinational company. Though he has a reputation of developing bug free programs, business protocol demands, that the application be properly tested before delivery. Over and above he has been working at breakneck speed to complete the application. He is now creating his own record of completing a project at such a short time, where even the experts will require not less than 2 months to complete this project. His boss, though, brought in this project at the last moment when Digvijay was winding up his pending works in the office last Saturday.
“D.J. we have got this prestigious project from our overseas client just now. I have promised them that we will deliver them within two months. They have agreed to award us this project solely depending on the lowest time frame we have quoted. And I have taken the project solely depending on your expertise and skill. I have every faith in you my boy. If we can deliver them this project, then they have promised us to give permanent contract for developing their PDA and mobile phone applications. This means we can take our business to greater heights and compete with the market bigwigs. Surely you understand the importance of this project by now, don’t you?”
“But sir I am going on leave next week!”
“D.J., I have explained you the situation. Haven’t i? I am requesting you to put in your best. I know you would not disappoint me my good lad.”
“Well let me see”. And so his instrumental music album and loads of coffee has been supporting him for the last week as days blur into night and night into day. He has been virtually eating, sleeping and working from his corner cabin for the last week uninterrupted by anyone.
Digvijay or D.J., as everyone calls him at his office, had completed his engineering in Mechanical Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Powai. In fact he was a gold medalist. Then he went on to complete his Masters from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States. After that he had come to Pune and joined a small start up company as a trainee programmer. His intention was to do a job and do programming on software for robots. Robotics was his Major subject in master’s degree.
Within 6 months he had made his bones, as his dad would proudly say, and become a programmer. Only one year later he had become a senior programmer and after two years he has become a legend not only in his office but also in the Indian industry of mobile phone and PDA applications development. International companies have been calling him everyday to give him lucrative job offers. But he has kept turning them down saying that he did not want to go overseas for doing job. He preferred to stay in his own country. Now he has made a position in his company which nobody has a name what to call and is his boss’s most trusted and prized employee. His boss has offered to make him a partner from this June which D.J. has accepted. Already he has moved to the corner cabin next to his boss’s. But he told his boss that he will still be a programmer and let his boss run the company as he loves to create applications.
When six foot tall, dark shoulder length haired, muscular and fair skinned Digvijay sits on his Bullet, heads are bound to turn. White and blue are his favorite colours. The Aviator sunglasses go well with his long drooping moustache. The strong jaw line and the broad forehead add to his muscular appeal. Nobody would say that, the 23 years old D.J., is a renowned software programmer and is about to become a partner in a successful and prestigious Indian software company.
The whiff of fresh coffee wakes D.J. up.
“Where are we my boy?”Seeing that he has woken up, his boss asks D.J.
The whole of last week, everybody in the office saw how D.J. has been working. The boss himself had prohibited anyone from even slightly disturbing him. A new coffee machine had been installed in his cabin. And that too, when he had gone home, to freshen up and change clothes. “Give me only two hours and the completed application will be at your desk”.
“WHAT? My God. You are a wizard or what?”
The face boss made, brought a slanting triumphant smile on his face.
“And sir, today afternoon, my flight is booked. I am going on leave for 20 days.
"Not before I see the application.”
“Of course.”
And obviously the boss was satisfied. He congratulated D.J. by shaking his hand.
“Enjoy your vacation my boy. You deserve it.”
This time he has planned to see the interiors of the lush green North eastern state of Tripura. A tourist bus facility has been launched recently from his home town Agartala to all the major attractions of Tripura in a 7 day’s tour package. Initially he will spend a week with his mother and father at home. He will only eat his mother’s specialty dishes and sleep. Then he will go onto the voyage. Later he plans to go into the interiors of the hilly state to spend a relaxing week, clicking away at his newly bought digital camera which is his only hobby other than programming for robots. Thinking about the vacation itself has a relaxing effect on him. Soon he falls asleep in the cool air conditioning of the flight.
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