My Farewell Speech

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