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Arbit Chaudhary

ARBIT

  • Physique: slim, 5 feet 9 inches tall
  • Dresses: formal or informal as per the situation
  • Behaviour in comics: Can appear in the comics with any other characters. Can either make a wise crack or be at the receiving end
  • Character sketch: Arpit Choudhury, dude’s your average second-year MBA warrior at an ivy league B-school. His life’s basically a non-stop, caffeine-fueled quest to juggle tests, assignments, presentations, competitions, and case studies (more like case-struggles, amirite?). Oh, and there’s the mandatory dose of internet browsing, friend-fueled gossip sessions, and strategic ctrl+C, ctrl+V action. Food, sleep, and buddies? Nah, those are just side quests in the epic grind.

Now, like any self-respecting management hopeful, Arpit dreams bigger than his caffeine habit (which is saying something). Dude’s got visions of corner offices and million-dollar deals, even if his current “business acumen” mostly involves applying marketing theories to score free pizza. But hey, that’s what you get when “management is an art,” as he loves to say with a wink (because let’s be real, it’s basically a four-letter word with a silent “F”).

His “wisdom” usually leaves everyone in stitches, even if it’s mostly business mumbo-jumbo masquerading as profound insights. No wonder his friends nicknamed him “ARBIT” Choudhury” – dude drops more corporate buzzwords than a broken jargon machine.

Antique

  • Physique: healthy, 5 feet 9 inches tall
    • Dresses: formal or informal as per the situation. In informal settings, always wears a round neck t-shirt.
    • Behaviour in comics: Usually appears in comics with Arbit alone or with Arbit + Prof. / Arbit + Perplex Singh. Usually present in business jargon related or B-school life related comics. Can either make a wise crack or be at the receiving end.
    • Character sketch: Ankit “Antique” Jain, the undisputed king of the study jungle. This dude’s got it all: brains sharper than a laser pointer, focus tighter than a mama bear’s hug, and PR skills smoother than a politician’s promises. Kotler chapters? Piece of cake. Fortune 500 profits? Tip of his fingers. CEO face recognition? Dude knows ’em all like his own family (except they probably pay their bills on time). Dream job? McKinsey, baby, McKinsey.
Teknik

TekNik

  • Physique: muscular, 5 feet 11 inches tall
  • Dresses: formal or informal as per the situation. Hangs ID card in office in neck.
  • Behaviour in comics: Usually appears in comics with Arbit alone or with other characters in the IT company. Can also appear in start-up related comics. Usually appears in comics related to life in a corporate scenario. Can either make a wise crack or be at the receiving end.
  • Character sketch: Nikhil Tekade, closer to Arbit than his phone to its charger – college roomies back in engineer-land. Dude could code circles around anyone, knew IT like the back of his hand, but grades? Those were like dragons – rare and fire-breathing. Hence the nickname TekNik – brains were techie fireworks, grades were damp squibs.

First tech company on campus? Swooped him up faster than free pizza. Three jobs in a year and a half, each one doubling his pay like a magic money-making hamster. Now, wouldn’t you know it, TekNik and Arbit are neighbours again! City must be shrinking.

They meet up, chat tech versus biz. TekNik’s all “deployment, deadlines, debug this!”, while Arbit’s on “vision, mission, world domination!”. Every time, same story – they leave thinking the other guy’s got the greener cubicle. Maybe the grass is just astro-turf everywhere, huh?

Prof LR

  • Physique: healthy, 5 feet 6 inches tall
  • Dresses: Formal – full shirt and pants
  • Behaviour in comics: Usually appears in comics with Arbit alone or with Arbit + Antique / Arbit + Perplex Singh. Usually present in business jargon related comics. Can either make a wise crack or be at the receiving end.
  • Character sketch: Professor Lingampally Rangareddy? Forget Voldemort, this dude’s the Thanos of tough! Stricter than a ruler, he knows every number-crunching tool under the sun, from fancy-pants Factor Analysis to that six-sigma mumbo jumbo. And guess what? He expects you to wield them like lightsabers against every management problem that twitches.

Campus legend has it that before popping the question, the Professor QFD’ed his future wife, not with some hocus-pocus horoscope, but with cold, hard data! Talk about commitment to the cause, right?

So yeah, you can imagine Arbit isn’t exactly his golden boy. Arbit, the walking antithesis of all things analytical, operates on the “no sweat, all swagger” principle. Where the Professor preaches “think before you blink,” Arbit’s motto is “shoot first, ask questions… maybe later.” Their classroom clashes are the stuff B-school dreams are made of – think gladiatorial arena meets stand-up comedy. Buckle up, it’s gonna be a wild ride!

Mohini - The HR Business Partner

  • Physique: Curvecious, 5 feet 6 inches tall
  • Dresses: Formal – women’s top and shirt. Hangs ID card in office in neck.
  • Behaviour in comics: Usually appears in comics with TeckNik alone or with other characters in the IT company. Always says unreasonable or unrealistic things related to HR. Can either make a wise crack or be at the receiving end.
  • Character sketch: Some jobs are mysteries wrapped in riddles, sprinkled with jargon dust, and HR wins that crown every time. But Mohini? She’s a whole enigma Olympics gold medalist. This lady’s got all the HR superhero powers: stunning looks, smooth talk that could sell ice to Eskimos, and a vocabulary filled with more buzzwords than a bee convention. She could spin the most brutal policy into a “paradigm shift for employee empowerment” with a smile that’d melt the North Pole.

Now, Teknik and Monty, bless their nerdy hearts, think Mohini’s their oracle of office answers. They head to her desk with daily woes, eyes full of hope, only to leave more confused than a lost penguin in the Sahara. Her explanations leave them blinking like owls in a disco, muttering things like “synergy” and “optimizing workflows” under their breath. But hey, at least there’s free coffee in the break room, right?

Johnty Python - TekNik’s colleague

  • Physique: fat, 5 feet 6 inches tall
  • Dresses: formal – with buttoned up half shirt. Has 3 lines on forehead indicating daily puja. Hangs ID card in office in neck.
  • Behaviour in comics: Usually appears in comics with TekNik alone or with other characters in the IT company. Usually appears in comics related to life in a corporate scenario. Always at the receiving end of the wise crack.
  • Character sketch: Jatheswaran Chandrakutanand Piraswami, better known among friends as Johnty Python, the data-wrangling wizard with a name longer than a server log, is Teknik’s partner in deciphering Tech Codies’ corporate mysteries. A true-blue IIT-nerdian, his brain could build algorithms smoother than a buttered naan, but alas, the fickle US visa gods weren’t impressed by his multisyllabic monicker.

Stuck in Tech Codies’ sweatshop, Monty and TekNik formed a nerd alliance, navigating the labyrinthine decrees of their overlords, Kahar Barpakar and Mohini, with more confusion than a hamster in a maze. Their office banter was a hilarious symphony of code jokes, pop culture references, and exasperated sighs punctuated by the rhythmic clack of their keyboards.

Together, they were the reluctant heroes of Tech Codies, unraveling its absurdities with wit and caffeine, always one sarcastic comment away from a spontaneous code rebellion.

Maya - Arbit’s Girlfriend

  • Physique: slim, 5 feet 5 inches tall
  • Dresses: Informal – skirts, tops, jeans
  • Behaviour in comics: Usually appears in comics only with Arbit. Can either make a wise crack or be at the receiving end
  • Character sketch: Maya and Arbit, two peas in a pod since engineerin’ school, had a bond tighter than a double knot. Now, Arbit, smitten from the start, couldn’t confess his feelings for beans. But love works in mysterious ways, and Maya caught the same bug! One surprise proposal later, they were inseparable.

Maya, a simple gal who loved keeping things real, sometimes felt like Arbit’s fancy MBA degree had launched him to Mars. Dude spoke in corporate gibberish all day, makin’ plans that’d confuse Einstein. To Maya, it was all talk, no walk.

So, she became his anchor, reminding him Earth still existed and fancy words didn’t build bridges. This love story wasn’t just about hearts and arrows, it was about keeping each other grounded, one jargon-busting conversation at a time.

Kahar Barpakar - TekNik and Johnty’s boss

  • Physique: healthy, 5 feet 8 inches tall
  • Dresses: Formal – full shirt with folded arms and pants. Hangs ID card in office in neck.
  • Behaviour in comics: Usually appears in comics with TeckNik alone or with other characters in the IT company. Always says unreasonable or unrealistic things. Can either make a wise crack or be at the receiving end.
  • Character sketch: Dude, Kahar Barpakar? His name screams “control freak” louder than a toddler with a megaphone. This guy runs his projects like a drill sergeant, obsessed with customers, details, budgets tighter than a mummy’s wrap, and deadlines that’d make Einstein cry. Forget empathy, teamwork, or feelings – dude’s EQ is flatter than a pancake. TekNik and Monty swear his ancestors used to ride whips, ’cause that’s how he treats us.

But guess what? Those ironclad rules vanish faster than coffee at a meeting when it comes to the bigwigs in office. After a while of Kahar’s drill-master routine, Teknik and Monty became numb as a dentist’s waiting room. They just grin and bear it, dreaming of the day we escape Project Torquemada.

Arbit

Arpit Choudhury, dude’s your average second-year MBA warrior at a Ivy-league B-school. His life’s basically a non-stop, caffeine-fueled quest to juggle tests, assignments, presentations, competitions, and case studies (more like case-struggles, amirite?). Oh, and there’s the mandatory dose of internet browsing, friend-fueled gossip sessions, and strategic ctrl+C, ctrl+V action. Food, sleep, and buddies? Nah, those are just side quests in the epic grind.

Arbit Chaudhary

Antique

Ankit “Antique” Jain, the undisputed king of the study jungle. This dude’s got it all: brains sharper than a laser pointer, focus tighter than a mama bear’s hug, and PR skills smoother than a politician’s promises. Kotler chapters? Piece of cake. Fortune 500 profits? Tip of his fingers. CEO face recognition? Dude knows ’em all like his own family (except they probably pay their bills on time). Dream job? McKinsey, baby, McKinsey.

TekNik

Nikhil Tekade, closer to Arbit than his phone to its charger – college roomies back in engineer-land. Dude could code circles around anyone, knew IT like the back of his hand, but grades? Those were like dragons – rare and fire-breathing. Hence the nickname TekNik – brains were techie fireworks, grades were damp squibs. First tech company on campus? Swooped him up faster than free pizza.

Teknik

Prof LR

Professor Lingampally Rangareddy? Forget Voldemort, this dude’s the Thanos of tough! Stricter than a ruler, he knows every number-crunching tool under the sun, from fancy-pants Factor Analysis to that six-sigma mumbo jumbo. And guess what? He expects you to wield them like lightsabers against every management problem that twitches.

Mohini

Maya and Arbit, two peas in a pod since engineerin’ school, had a bond tighter than a double knot. Now, Arbit, smitten from the start, couldn’t confess his feelings for beans. But love works in mysterious ways, and Maya caught the same bug! One surprise proposal later, they were inseparable.

Johnty Python

Matheswaran Chandrakutanand Piraswami, better known among friends as Johnty Python, the data-wrangling wizard with a name longer than a server log, is Teknik’s partner in deciphering Tech Codies’ corporate mysteries. A true-blue IIT-nerdian, his brain could build algorithms smoother than a buttered naan, but alas, the fickle US visa gods weren’t impressed by his multisyllabic monicker.

Maya

Maya and Arbit, two peas in a pod since engineerin’ school, had a bond tighter than a double knot. Now, Arbit, smitten from the start, couldn’t confess his feelings for beans. But love works in mysterious ways, and Maya caught the same bug! One surprise proposal later, they were inseparable.

Kahar Barpakar

Dude, Kahar Barpakar? His name screams “control freak” louder than a toddler with a megaphone. This guy runs his projects like a drill sergeant, obsessed with customers, details, budgets tighter than a mummy’s wrap, and deadlines that’d make Einstein cry. Forget empathy, teamwork, or feelings – dude’s EQ is flatter than a pancake.