DURING my nearly four-decade-long tenure with a state-run bank, I witnessed my colleagues giving a wide range of contrived reasons for taking leave. Some of these were close to being ridiculous or implausible.
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During my service of four decades in a public sector bank, I noticed my colleagues’ dread whenever they were deputed to an office of the CBI. Stories of the premier investigating agency belittling bank officials did the rounds.
DURING his stint at the Accountant General’s office in Bengaluru, my maternal uncle often officiated as the presiding officer during elections. He recounts that government employees on poll duty had to attend a briefing at the headquarters of the city council before an armed police-escorted bu
During the early years at our ancestral home in Fraser Town, Bengaluru, three coconut palms graced the garden. They swayed majestically on a windy day. My father planted the first palm sapling where an aged guava tree once stood — it was gobbled up by termites and withered away.