This is the story of a man named Pratik Rane living in a small house called Aundh Villa. He had a decent job and a real good job profile. He is a healthy looking personality and belongs from a more than well-to-do family. He has a short height, got a side-partioned hair and the most attractive attribute are his lovely little dimples which makes all the girls go mad on him.
We (refers to Rane's friend) knew him since our engineering and we all made a good company with each other. We enjoyed, laughed, shared things, spend time, studied, played, cried and did all the possible and impossible things together. It was a great time!!! I still cherish those moments.
After our graduation we all came to Pune excluding Rane. He did come but late because his joining date in the company was late. Yes you are correct excluding Rane we all landed up in the same damned company called TechM and he was the only one to get a different job in a renouned company called TAL. He did something different. We all got a job of 2.8 lacs package and he got it for 3.8 lacs. A straight away difference of 1 lac.
He joined us and we decided to all live together. It was a great fun once again. However, this guy, as I have already mentioned, had a great standard of living, directly used to buy a new shirt when he had nothing in good condition to wear to office. We guys were really poor to afford a new shirt every week. Sometimes we even felt jealous of him but he being a friend we were always happy to see him prosper in his life.
Previously when Rane had not joined the room we used to keep our clothes in the suitcase itself but as soon as he came he bought a new Kabat for himself. This made us think that even if you earn money u need to have that King-Like standard of living as Rane. Seeing him even we bought Kabats but that too took around 6 months for us to think for a new kabat.
There is another case that I would like to share. This guy (Rane) never liked to wash his clothes himself. Now this was something which I was doing since 4 years ans the rest of my room-mates since 6 months. Now what this guy did was he bought a new WASHING machine for himself. It was a blessing for us and we also were freed from the pain from washing clothes. We again thanked god and Rane for this and we prayed for his success.
Such instances kept on happening. He also got an electric gas, a laptop, 2 multimedia phones and a brand new collection of clothes and what not.
Last but not the least, which had happened quite earlier was the YAMAHA R15 that he had bought for himself. Iss baat ne toh hume pagal hi kar diya. Now for these above mentioned reasons he got the nick name as LORD Rane.
But after that something really bad happened which we had never imagined even in our wildest dreams. RANE LEFT THE ROOM. Yes guys and not only he left the room but also left us in a terrible condition. We are the same as before. Washing our clothes with our own hands, no net at home, striving hard to earn the same standard of living that we had in the presence of the LORD. We really miss our friend!!!!
--- poor Karan Malkan