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Monday, December 25, 2006

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Ramesh entered the class room. He did not have any books in his hand. He had a stand which held some 8 glasses of water. He exactly knew what to do. Go around the classroom once, and provide water to the "annas" writing exam. As a 11 year old boy, he had never attended any school. He worked in the college whenever there was any exam. Sometimes he had to be there for the whole day when there were exams during the morning and evening session. He didn mind that. He was very excited being in the college and especially when he crossed the labs with different equipments that he has never seen before. He used to look at the people writing exams, some seriously writing, some thinking, some looking outside through the window. Everything amused him and he too wanted to be a part of it badly. He wanted to study and become a big officer one day. His dad was not in a postion to send him to school. Rather he thought of sending him to work to get some more money.

Today something was different there. Usually there used to be only one "Sir" in a class going around checking if the students were writing the exams without cheating. But today there were three people. But Ramesh continued with what he used to do.

Sandip was trying to solve the last question. He very well knew his life was dependent on this exam. This was going to be the last company in the set of firms that were supposed to visit the college for campus placements. If Sandip misses this chance, then life gets very tough. He tried to concentrate hard and tried to solve all the puzzles.

The test was for a short duration and Sandip came out few minutes early. He was not sure of what he had done. As he came out, he came out and stood near Ramesh and waited for his friends.

Ramesh turned and looked at Sandip and thought when will i become a officer like this "anna" and Sandip was thinking when he will become an officer.