Ekhono ghurche (translated into English it means "still turning"

B wanted to go one up on his son....his son a grade 8 student was already running around his father when it came to a computer. After all B was a mechanical engineer from the IIT and he was a Sr Manager of the design department of Disco - a famous name which also makes steel....

So B came to A and said he wanted a computer....A was a sales guy who had till that date sold nothing and constantly his boss would say " ebar earn your salary please or else like bad furniture we will have to toss you out". So A fresh from engineering college was all ears.... Unlike a Bollywood movie there was no chants from heaven or any blessings for Lakshmi...but to A, B was a God send....

B managed to buy and A managed to sell him a top of the line Pentium computer, the highlight being , B asking A " Ami Kintu Pentium chai amar chele school e AMD use kore ( I want Pentium as my son uses a AMD in school).... A different time and a management degree later A would surely have got into B's head to figure out " why this kolaveri on his dear son".

Soon B received his spanking new Pentium machine along with installation services and a host of pirated software being provided by A...those were the days when "windows" symbolized a part of the architecture of a house and "word" was associated with a Hindi film dialog like " Maine tumhe juban diya hai". All was well and then one day he'll broke loose...

It was a day in the life and after finishing the daily chore of wiping his table clean ( In those days A performed all services in his office or as the Bengalis put it colorfully...he did " juto selai theke chondi paath") he was just about to surreptitiously start one of the dos based computer games, when suddenly his desk phone rang.... On a given day A received at best 1 call a day when his mum called at lunchtime to ask "Babuta khabar khe cho" and then subsequently a call in the evening when his father in his baritone asked " Badite kokhon phirbi".... But this was different....

To cut a long story short, it was B and B had a problem with his brand new Pentium PC....the problem was that for the last 2 days his windows 98 machine was frozen aka in B's own language " machine ta kichu bolche na"....

B: A amar machine ta kichu bolche na
A: Aapni screen e ki dekhte parchen....
B: Acha Aapni screen Kaun jinish ta ke bolchen
A : Oi computer er TV ta ke
B: Acha Ekta Halka neel screen are tate Ekta damrur moton jinish
A: Feeling he understands this as this is nothing but a hung computer suggests the universal response B da aapni control alt are del tipun tar pore amake bolun ki dekhte parchein
B: Acha

After a gap of a couple of minutes B says : A ekhono ghurche.....
Hearing this A barely controlling his laughter now says ... Aapni machine take off kore din
After a split second B says ...Ei Toh off kore dilam.... The A says... B da ebar machine take abar on korun.... In a split second B is back and says .... Acha on hoe geche....A who is well versed with the trails and tribulations of turning on and off a windows device is suspicious...he asks aapni machine ta kothai off korchen....to this B says ami Toh TV take off kore abar on korlam.... Now A is at his wits end and says : B da machine omni kore off hoe na aapni niche CPU r switch take off korun... After a couple of minutes, he hears B upto something and then B gives the gem " Acha switch ta koto jore tipbo" A is now uncontrollable ...he says B da jor lagiye tipun are tokhon porjonto tipun joto Khon na monitor ta off how jai....

This time the machine truly turned off....so B said Ei Toh screen ta puro kalo hoe geche...A breathes a sigh of relief and says " ebar B da machine ta ke on korun are botam take to to Khon tipun jate monitor ta abar start hoe jai....B does it and then after a 5 minutes A asks...B da ebar ki dekhte parchein......

To this B says " Ekta blue screen are dot dot dot dot....." It's the blue screen of death for the uninitiated,....


Well after some trials and tribulations B did manage to get his machine up and running and thanked A with his heart for the remote help...A left the company and the town where DISCO company was based....but A learnt an important lesson that day....if you want something to be universally used, you have got to make it simple and ...till this date the guys in Seattle are still trying to do that....