Mr. Bose woke up early on the chilly January morning and Rama, Mrs. Bose was already deciding the menu for the day. He got ready to go to the market with the list Rama had given him. On the way he met Mr. Ghosh and passed greetings "kemon achen dada" and rushed to pick up the ilish fish his wife would cook for dinner & pui saag for the ilish head to be cooked. He couldn't stop and smiled thinking about the awesome dinner. He rushed to the next store & picked up the rohu for the morning & lunch. It was already 6:30 and he rushes back home because Mrs. Bose would be waiting for him to return with the vegetables & fish to be cooked.
By 8:30 he was waiting at the dining table for Rama to serve the awesome smelling Rice, Masoor Dal, Phoolkaphir Tarkari & Rohu Kalia. While serving the food she tells him that their son Baban is becoming very naughty and the teacher was complaining about him, though busy eating he didn't pay heed. By 9 he realises it is very late and with the new biometric system or whatever it is he had to be in office by 10, now he would have to take a taxi to Esplanade. Like everyday the taxiwala is not ready to go and after a few refusals he finally got a taxi and he asked him to hurry but the traffic in Kolkata is just getting worse everyday. He also did not have enough time to read Anandabazar so he brought it with him and started reading but the Kolkata taxiwala will give the sudden jolt on the way, even after shouting a few times he decided against wasting his time to speak to him.
It was almost 10:03 when he reached office and he was thankful that it was allowed to be in the office by 10:05. He couldn't even puff his cigarette in all this hurry and now Mr Chatterjee (the boss) will be mad. Already the day started bad and now his boss will not even understand. Life was so good a few years back, with all technology and the new boys like Aniruddha & Sanjoy it is very difficult. Mr. Chatterjee shouted sitting in his cabin in between his thoughts "Bose, come inside...". He knew this meant some additional work but boss is boss what could he do. As usual Mr. Chatterjee told how inefficient he was and he could work on improving his speed. Also he gave him some work which he wanted by the evening which Mr.Bose knew was just to harass him. Now he needed a smoke because how can he work without that, it was the fuel for the brain to work. So, he goes down to have his smoke with a cha (tea) and then he joins the discussion on how Didi is the reason for their downfall, even when the discussion is just getting some heat he has to go because Chatterjee will take his case otherwise. Bill Gates could have just made the Windows without Excel & powerpoint, everything could have been just easy but the man didn't understand that instead of making life easy he just made it tough for the mankind, the accounts has to be made in an excel sheet which didn't make any sense when it could be done so easily earlier. Today the elaborate lunch of Biriyani had to be given a miss because Chatterjee wanted this. So, Bose just skipped lunch and kept working, but the cigarette cannot wait and at 3 he did go for it with chai. The school kids were going back home and suddenly he remembered that his wife had said something about Baban, he would have to ask her again. He was working on the excel and couldn't figure why & how Aniruddha did it so easily, the phone rang and it was Rama telling him to get egg rolls for snacks from Poltu and reminded twice that not to get it from Jhoru as last time Baban fell sick eating that. He again worked on the excel & he could hear Chatterjee shouting at some more fellow colleagues and knew that it was a really bad day. At 5:30 he took the excel sheet to Chatterjee and forget appreciation he had to just hear him shout even more for not being able to work on the powerpoint. But thankfully he asked Sanjoy to do that & he could go home.
He took the 5:50 bus back home which was packed with no scope of even a finger moving & got down a stop before his stop to pick up the rolls, on the way he met Biswas who was a supporter of Mohun Bagan and now the topic would stick to last night's match where they made only one extra goal than East Bengal. But the East Bengal team gave way to people like Biswas to talk. So the next ten minutes had to be an argument but Mr. Bose cannot let is team down and fought till the very end. It only struck him that he was late when Rama started calling the cell. He ran home and there was the angry wife waiting for the snacks, how worse could the day get, the rolls were cold. He ate it with the tea his wife served & asked about Baban. Rama started Zee Bangla which Mr. Bose tried to protest with a feeble voice but he knew he would lose the battle for the remote so just stuck to know what his son upto. Then, she started with the whole story and he came to know that the next wouldn't be any easier because there was a parent call from their son's school and it was always his fault because he was his son.
So, that was Bose da's day and was not any different from any other day. He just wishes Rama is happy and Baban gets into IIT he couldn't clear JEE & all he became was an accountant. Bose Da will still wish that East Bengal wins and he can rub it on Biswas's face. Also it would be great for Bose Da if he can go by bus in the morning without much of rush.
(Note: All characters in the story are fictional and any resemblance with any living or dead person is sheer co-incindence, phaaking trust me it is all phiction...)
