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Ladies and Gentlemen,

This edition of ‘Your Daily News’ is dedicated to our friend, the one and only, G Satish.
I am very disappointed. Satish is leaving Internal Audit and there are no demonstrations. No self-immolations. Nothing. To top it, none of his colleagues who spoke/wrote about him, choked with emotion.

Before I start, let me warn you, this is meant to be an emotional write up. So, even if you do not feel like choking, try and swallow a chewing gum.

Satish will be really missed. You probably think how can somebody not miss someone as broad and well built as Satish...he has such ‘huge’ personality. Especially his million-dollar smile. That’s the only time when one can associate another skin colour with him!
For a person, who buys movie tickets one week in advance, to being asked to relocate to a new city in 4 days is like expecting Sachin to say, “Main, Vijay Deena Nath Chauhan” in typical Bachchan ‘Agneepath’ style!

I am sure he loved this place. No, it has got nothing to do with the soup/coffee/biscuits/ lunch/birthday cakes/evening snacks/internet connectivity....that was just office work that tragically got intertwined with this long list!

This is the place, where he taught me multi-tasking skills. I could chat, be on the phone and at the same time check those really funny forwarded mails. And of course work...
Now he will never be able to draft audit points at work.
Abhishek Saraf will no longer bother him with his excise queries. Neither will Satish get the luxury of being gifted with Cadbury’s Dairy Milk every time someone traveled from Guntur to Anaparti.

Rahul Banthia will stop calling him to advise him with his latest stock tips. Who will organize Chummery parties with him henceforth? Who will convince the ‘hardworking/home loving’ auditors to join the gang for a movie after work? Who will share his Dhania Dosas? Who will jump at the sweets in his lunch box, for a bite, and then not return them at all? Who will discuss audit observations with him as if it was a Hollywood movie?
Sai Prakash will only have Prabal Chandhok at his mercy for his long, difficult and sometimes boring Tamil conversations. Saurabh will not know who to shower his difficult English language on. Sidharth will wonder who else will give him the respect of an Englishman. Sharad will no longer be able to shower his warm (and at times alarmingly warm) brotherly feelings. Pankaj will not know who to discuss the next ‘person’ with. Meenakshi will now have to wait for another disc partner!

This guy is fun and nothing else. I have very rarely seen him serious in life. And those rare occasions have been when he urgently needed to attend his nature calls and the washroom was at vicinity.

The only talent that God mistakenly gave him was his voice. Not when he tries his level best to pronounce difficult English words without his Tamil accent. But when he sings. This man is a rebirth of Mohd Rafi. With his receeding hairline and his ever increasing waist line, he will surely go a long distance.

I hope and pray to God to please send on Earth more of such motley fools. Without people like him, all of us would be like characters of Ekta Kapoor's serials.

We will miss you Satish.
Best of Luck and God Bless.

Abhishek Gupta.