8:15 am: Raga arrives hastily with a mild tension in his face. (Now dont ask why shud a person be
tense the very morning itself. Thatz how our raga is.. :-)

8:30 am: Raga with a "labtab" in heart with a scary look in his face (believe me..i doubt whether
he ud've received his 12th, 10th board exam results with this much anxiety ) opens the bugs from onsite.
People in adjoining cubes can see/hear the "navarasa" of raga.."Oh...it again got opened...shit...ha haaa...
how come?? hmm..oh no..thatz good.. "...and what not..

9:00 am: Raga jumps and picks up his scratchpad and vanishes...But he cud be spotted out in any of the conf
room or 45 series phones. Raga with his own audience of his project mates watching him silently, tries his best
to explain why things went wrong. The conf call goes for 40 minutes with Raga taking 36 minutes and others
taking the rest obvsly.

10:00 am: Raga is determined. He wants to set things right. He readily goes to the sishyas of his module
(letz take becharaa ajay as example). "What is this Ajay?" he starts... ( Guys, here i must say "What is
this" is absolutely a classic statement. He uses this right from the housekeeping guys to his Onsite PM..
but, you must see the way he uses it...I really fail with words...But, the bottomline is that it works !!.
Raga..U r really a Psycho(logist)..:-))

Ok..Coming back to Ajay, he shouts..err..requests..no..insists (ok..a mix of everything) "Whatz this Ajay?
Complete this da..From Onsite, they are shouting..waiting with a cane to hit me..(pressurizing tactics buddy)..
please finish this code by 1 hour da..See, I have opened a new file in Interdev. I have even opened
enterprise manager for u.. Half of the work is over. Just write the code."..Ajay meekly defends
"But, raga..i want explanasion..It is not simple man..".hmmmm...no use...raga succeeds...

10:45 am: Again, Raga vanished. Now in any of the conf rooms, having a heavy discussion with the PL alone...

Guys, if u guys think that Developer-ModuleLeader-Project Leader is how growth in infy is, im sorry...
u can see our Raga (with an year's work ex) is the ML, Technical Lead, Architect and what not...
But, read b/w words...i have not said tht Raga is a developer..(Going elementary, Whoz a developer?
A developer is one who writes codes)

11:50 am: Raga comes tired from the conf room. Now Nattu goes to Raga's place for a "chumma" chat...
Raga sadly discharges his feelings and indirectly curses nattu "U guys are all happily living.
Im getting all the brickbats...Im toiling...No one gets our sufferings" etc etc...After hearing all thse,
at one stage, you would be more sympathetic towards raga than you are to Ethiopians & Kashmirians ..

12:30 am: Raga atlast gets his call for lunch and nattu hears the much awaited statement from raga
"Machan, please query in radar, get the modulewise bug count, update it in the board, send a mail to team"...
before nattu cud tell something, again raga vanishes....

After Lunch:

2:00 pm: Some vetti guy (ok, i hate getting specific. neway to mention, say our Pav) floats a junk mail
asking "When shall we go for XYZ's treat"...the real fun started, all guys stage their great sense of
humor to the group...ne prj guy who returns to his seat after a gap of 10 minutes ud have to read/shift del
68 mails atleast...(Pav, is the number correct?). Raga, a veteran of this activity, with max. enthu
floats his share of mails..

2:30 pm: Ok, Ultimately guys decide by consensus to go to treat by 4 pm. Now, Raga waiting for the occasion
starts cribbing "No, da..I have got heavy work". If u go and ask, "Why dont u come Raga", u are gone.
Raga retards sharply "What?? our module is not as cool n easy as yours. Ours is the core module boss"..

4:00 pm: By 4, raga somehow was convinced to attend the treat and enjoys his time laughing for all that
comes from others .

5:15 pm: Raga now realizes that there was a deliverable to onsite that day. Raga becomes energetic, ecstasic ..

6:30 pm: Like a drill master, he jumps, runs across cubes, creates tension, stares desperately at his
screen, screams at praba for something...it goes on n on...

8:00 pm: Raga has lost his hopes that things would be over smoothly. Gently peeps into the PL's cube and
explains that something will not go with the day's build. PL agrees...What else one can do?

8:15 pm:

Case 1:

Raga asks Vittal and Nattu to send the earlier build and says "My van will leave by next 5 min"
and vanishes for the (n+(2n-1)/3n)th time...

Case 2:

Raga, making sure that the day's build has gone and the PL has left, wants to relax after a tiring day's work(?!)
He opens, one of the good "Detailed Functionality Document" (?!!) out of the huge collection he has in his mail box
(I cannot elaborate more. Mail etiquette is ther, right??) and starts reading it happily.

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