Janardhan Karmakar returned from RMHC site for re-claimer capital repair work. On that day most of the important work from my department of Heavy Maint was over. I asked Janardhan whether he handed over the work to them. He nodded his head in positive way. I checked up the log book later to find the following interesting line
The work is complete and handed over to 'Mr.Jain' I enjoyed the comedy as I recalled my friend Jayanth (not Mr.Jain) from RMHC had later conveyed that the work was handed over by my team and that Janardhan was a very positive Charge man.
Frankly the name Jayanth was very simple and easy to pronounce, but some incidents (3 YEARS before the above incident and the latter mentioned below indicated that still it was not over yet) show that there was a serious issue with it.
Jayanth received his appointment letter in July and he was addressed as JAYANATH. Though it was a very slight mistake, we never thought it to be the beginning of a recurrent series of mistakes.
We had completed our induction training at Bhilai and were transferred to Durgapur .In our Training department we were supposed to sign the attendance registers. We were surprised to see one more modified version of the name Jayanth as
‘JAYAWANTH’ and this continued for almost a month. We started calling Jayanth by different names.
During our JOT/SOT invigilation/correction phase, we have to wait for our partners who were assigned to us only in the last minute. All of us were informed and Jayanth was shocked to see his name printed as
‘JAYAWTH’.
As expected, his partner found it difficult to pronounce his name and was unable to get to Jayanth as no body knew JAYAWTH. Jayanth anticipated the same and he made it to his partner in time. His name continued to be spelt likewise till he was posted to his department.
After a few months, we had forgotten the incident when one day Jayanth seemed extremely happy. We all asked Jayanth the reason for his sudden high spirits. He proudly showed his name in the mess register (we were having a self run mess and most of the hoteliers were members of it)
‘JAYANTH BELLARI’ (HIS FULL NAME WITH NO SPELL MISTAKES FOR THE FIRST AND LAST TIME)