Other Journaling Days
I am at Accenture these days. It has been 4 years since I left Chandigarh by the end of December of 2021. It was a rainy morning last week (and raining when I was having my aloo parantha and ginger tea at the Accenture cafeteria) when I first thought of pulling this piece up. Accenture's cafeteria hall on ground floor block 9 gives me the memories of Infosys Chandigarh's cafeteria hall. Memories intensified by the aloo parantha and ginger tea available here similar to back those days at Infy Chandigarh. The large hall, few people here and there in spots but mostly empty seats. The tricolor (orange, white and green) theme of plastic chairs. The greenery outside the window. The rainy weather last week, and pre-rain weather today. All of these things bring up the past memories. I think as I sit down here to write this piece of recollections of the breakfast table at my previous employer, I am getting recollections that I can put up in one short narrative. What I am sort of getting are flashes of memories spread across time and space. And with people in it like Anil Dahiya. No need to mention that I don't have anyone here with me today, primarily the reason why I am able to do this writing. :D The problem I am observing is that I don’t have any images or pictures of Infosys memories to share with you right now and as I am getting reflections of the memories from Infy these are more of a collage, a reel with music and sliding pictures rather than a narrative. I think I forgot the name of aloo parantha outlet vendor but I think the tea vendor was “Karma Tea Stall” (but bhaiya used to work at Karma and his name was Gyanchand Jain whom Anil used to call Gyan ji) - haha, getting harder and harder to give you the specifics. Similar to Infy Chandigar, here also you get aloo parantha from one vendor and tea from another. Aloo paratha is served in a square three block plate with butter and curd. At Accenture, you can get an extra butter cube for free upon asking but at Infy they used to charge some 5 rupees extra for another butter cube or some extra curd. Anil used to come to the office by 8-8.30 and he used to sit next to one of those meter wide square pillars (probably because the pillars had sockets in them). Here at Accenture cafeteria, I observed there are meter wide square pillars 🙂 Just that I was sitting by the window with my food. Eating and reminiscing…
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