Missing Rosogullas

Whatever calories were lost in the course of exercises yesterday, Tara Chand-ji’s laddoos more than squared them. Today, members were in for another round of sinful indulgence had not the security personnel of Calcutta Airport confiscated Bhaswati Bose’s dubba of 50 rosogullas from Assam, meant of the Club.
Srichand Arora had got wind of the incident and demanded (teasingly) where the sweets had gone when Bhaswati (right) reported at the Garden this morning. The lady was at pains to explain that greed got the better of the airport officials and she, along with two other hapless passengers, had to leave their rosogullas behind at the airport last evening. She recounted in graphic detail how the sweets were cleared by Dibrugarh airport, but it was at Calcutta, where she had to change flights for Mumbai, that the authorities decided to take away the dubba. No amount of pleading, coaxing and quarreling helped, as different airports apparently have different security rules. Significantly, last year, she had carried rosogullas for the Club, cleared from the same Calcutta airport!
Members broke into narrating their own horror stories at airports where consumables like liquor, baby food and even medicines had been arbitrarily impounded. Arora’s experience was most telling. He had once been stopped for carrying a particularly expensive brand of foreign cigarettes and he lost his head. Refusing to part with the cigarettes, he surrendered his matchbox instead and defiantly walked past the airport officers, saying: “Maachis bina, cigarette nahi jalegi! So what's your problem?”
Amidst all this talk, Pratap Bhatt (left) announced that he would be disappearing for a week as he has to collect the keys of his “redeveloped” apartment in Ahmedabad. He wished all the members a Happy Dussehra.

Renu Babani says:
Oh dear me, too bad the rosogullas didn't reach the members. The customs officer had a feast for sure! Anyway, I hope you had a great trip, Mrs. Bose and hope you brought back some beautiful memories.
--Renu