Pappus

Not sure where the name came from - possibly some bollywood movie with a character called 'pappu mobile'. The pappus are a group of friends from a software company in Mumbai with a whacky sense of humour. The humour sometimes borders on the line of irritation, ridicule, or tragedy; depends on the listeners capacity to take it. Rakesh and Vaibhav are the irritators; those who have taken a taste of their humour might be ready to call them the terminators. Vinod and Rajendra are the ridiculers who are ready to find wrong with anything in the world - the subject could be as valid as George W. Bush, Sourav Ganguly, or Mandar and as unacceptable as Sachin Tendulkar and Amitabh Bachchan; but I think the favoured subjects are the bright ideas of managers they work or don't work with.

Each from the group gets a name e.g. 'pappu vilaayati' for somebody who has been to onsite very often. The pappus had a very dynamic member (and interestingly never called a pappu) called 'major'. Wittingly or unwittingly major provided a lot of ammunition to the pappu reign of terror (aah, as they say... those were the days). All the pappus miss major a lot as one fine day fate played a cruel game and major was out of the company. Major visited the pappu group once in a while - he was also very depressed with having to leave the pappu group. But now the whole pappu group is joining major's company. And that is major's power.

Vaibhav introduced a lot of TLA's to the pappu dictionary. Yep, Three Letter Acronyms. I am sure he can speak complete meaningful sentences using TLAs (great idea to rename Vaibhav as the 'pappu TLA'). A couple of the all time favourites are CPP (Chai Piya? Piyega?) and LKK (Lunch Khaya? Khayega?). The pappu group was so used to these TLAs that some may have used it at home to some astonished faces. No surprises though if somebody at Vaibhav's place give a call for DKK (you may have guessed what that means by now).