When I joined this lab, O'dear,
I came across people
Who immediately became close and near
Arpita, Madhu, Subhadeep and Lubna
Our first trip to Shantiniketan was euphoric
And a total hit, hai na
We collected our cyano from there
And all of us
Started taking their care
Ma'am said, we are sitting on gold mine
True it is, they are precious greens
That could make our lab shine
On fridays and saturdays, we were visited by a special guest
Not actually a guest, Ada became one of the labmates,
The smallest, the cutest
Neha, Gyan, Sushma, Devdas, Madhvi, Shreya
The trainees kept the youthfulness alive
With their chitchats, their hehe haha
Samrat and Mayuri accompanied me in the coursework
We went back to college days
With our assignments and homeworks
Arijit, Abhishek and Pijush became our labmates
In no time,
We started sharing our fates
Postdocs were more like friends and less like a senior
Diyadi, Rajibda, Adityada guided in our works,
Made concepts clearer
I got married and had to leave Kolkata
The difficult truth of our society
I got Delhi as my new pata
But, my fate was tied with this lab
I successfully convinced my near ones
That we do good work, that our lab is fab
I came back to Kolkata and found newbies with their own sets of tool
Shashikant, Asha were later joined by
Priya, Geeta, Subhajeet and Kajul
I wish that this lab grows and becomes the best
Believing and leaving to the juniors
All the rest
