Summers

This post dedicated to my co-interns at SEBI- Ayush, Anjan, Aniruddha, Gopesh, Piyush, Shankar and Rohit.
It was the summer of 2008 and we arrived at humid Mumbai for our internship at SEBI. We were put up in a SEBI guest house at Malad. The apartment was semi-furnished and we were allotted two flats, each comprising of two rooms, a kitchen, a dinning hall and two bathrooms. The office was in Bandra Kurla Complex, some 25 kms away. There was an employee-managed bus service that helped us out for easy conveyance. A typical day started with getting up at around 7:15 am and getting ready to start off with the bus waiting near our apartment. The bus used to battle its way through the Mumbai traffic for around one hour to leave us at SEBI office in BKC. Then it was time for morning "paid" breakfast in the office canteen. Then we moved to our desks and get involved in our core activity, surfing the net. The "free" lunch timing was from 12:45 pm to 2 pm; and we used to be the first ones in the queue. Post lunch it used to be time for "getting aware of the happenings around the world" (also called reading newspaper) in the library. The office hours were till 5:30 pm and that was the time for evening "paid" snacks
and then getting on the bus for another 1 hour 15 mins ride through the thick traffic.
Listening to "Dekhta hai tu kya" (from crazzy 4) on Radio Mirchi all those memories of internship flashed across my eyes. Although it was neither my first experience of summer training nor my first time out of home; but still it was kind of different in many ways. The people I mentioned above were each with their own set of uniques and it was quite a time with them at Mumbai.