A Heartfelt Farewell

A Heartfelt Farewell

 

 

Hey Parija Babu! Your pardon

beg each Nalconian in person

failing to be present by your side

when your health started to slide

to lighten your painful burden

and pray Lord for your salvation.

But cursed by the pandemic flu

none could manage to reach you.

On the news of your admission in ICU

except praying to Lord we had no other clue

Nalco collective sincerely prays for you

with its gratitude while bidding you adieu.

 

In roles multidisciplinary

excellent and exemplary

were your deeds indeed!

a Nalconian of the rare breed

inducted to Nalco in her need

as a manager at field to lead

to make up the delays initial

bred by interface duels, critical

Thus your entry as an architect

enlivened the enervated CPP project

putting it in track to the date targeted

and turned yourself as the most trusted

to Nalco’s top management

thus onward without abatement

at the pivotal positions, you always led

the company to surge ahead

In due course of your elevations

you could head with distinctions

each and every branch of engineering

where many innovations you could bring

using your awesome technical acumen

that overwhelmed your crewman.

even you headed personal administration

branches beyond your subject of graduation

from civil to technologies on the operation

to finance, IE, HRD, and administration.

Enviable was your journey in Nalco

that your meteoric rises amply show.

You came as a civil engineer at site

to build and maintain civil edifice right

but changed your cadre being multifaceted

and as Nalco’s HRD head you superannuated..

Everywhere you proved your success

your source of expertise we fail to assess.

In the ash pond debacle

your network did the miracle

you used your family relation

fir help of district administration

to mitigate the crisis of the company

cite we may, such instances many

to speak of your love and dedication to Nalco

Thus, you with gratitude, Nalconians bow.

To us as a colleague and a neighbor

for many years sharing the same shelter

when you turned as a boss to boss over

you could amalgamate all of them together

with harsh reprimands at work lapses,

off the job as neighbor sharing dishes

and playing cards in the club as a partner

harmoniously you did them with wonder

not for a year or two but for many a year

replacing smoothly the frowns by laughter.

A reflection on your life story

submitting humbly to speak of your glory

With tears and pang in heart, I sing in your praise

tha respect, your choice on a career in me raise.

From the profession of a professor

and from a post of PWD engineer

to industries with hard life and labor

day in day out pollutants of highest order

sacrificing a life with prestige and power

and security of life with bulging pension fatter

you embraced a life of turmoil and tensions

to live with pollutants in all dimensions

straining health mental and physical

risking your parameters biological

that young age and youth may sustain

surely at old age as it appears as bane.

With no adequate medical support to assist

succumb one to the ailments and tremble to exist.

But you did it

In it you found yeoman’s merit.

During service career, true to your spirit

uppermost in your mind were Company’s profit

left, you, your family to shape their own fate

All your sacrifices are really great.

But under financial pressure

I have heard your murmur

with the inadequacy of interest on deposit

the only source of income to exist

with the spiraling cost of medication

being ashamed to ask dole from the relation

But to my query “ Was it your repentance?”

You told, “ No it is my prayer with penance.”

 

You are one of the proud architects

we bow with gratitude and respects

With all odds against Nalco

from her input to output flow

you and a few carved out Nalco

as the nations’ proud show

The critics on the investment

were silenced and proved errant.

as the company, you built in the public sector

thrives ahead without dole from any quarter

competing with peers the world across

Nalco since inception never incurred loss

she is cash-rich unlike any public sector

her success pinnacles the country’s honor.

Hey Lord! Us you did not permit

to bow at our colleague, at his mortal exit

for the reasons to you, best known

But give Pparija a place near your throne

with peace and bliss to his soul forever

that we Nalco collectives piously pray for.

 

When he was on his electric pyre

his kith and kin and colleagues in prayer

in exile at distance

As if Parija babu whispered at that instance

“ During my career, my body devoured many pollutants

at my final exit I ensured no pollutants, Hey Man, errant!”

 

 

P K Routray

in the service of Lord

 

(M S Parija an Ex Nalconian left for his heavenly abode on 11/5/2020. This is a tribute in his honor)