Sourav Datta

The Basement Computer Room

Only a week ago, I was a programmer writing code in a tight, claustrophobic basement of a company that had always been on the verge of going bankrupt but never did. And today, I was strapping up my bags for the deep magma explorer submarine, which would take us down the volcanic corridor and up near the Arctic ice caps. It was almost unreal.

When the company finally went down, I could not stop myself from breathing a little sigh of relief. The competition was too tough, and I knew we wouldn’t make it another year. It was inevitable, and yet I forced myself not to imagine the possibility of the events that came after. Lisa, the company’s chairperson and chief executive for the last twenty years, called us all in the hall of the topmost executive floor to break the news. As usual, I got some weird stares from all the female employees and a tiny number of males in the audience. Lisa found [আরো পড়ুন]