Dramatic Twist

L’affaire food continued, but with a dramatic twist today. Out of the blue, Nazma Sayed remembered to celebrate her birthday (never mind, she was being nine days late) and came to the Garden carrying a big box of chocolate cake. Somewhere along the way, she dropped the knife she had brought to cut the cake.
Trouble started when Shekhawat had to leave for Colaba midway through the exercises. Nazma summoned Shekhawat and asked him to take a bite before leaving – only to realize she was without a knife. As she struggled with the scotch tape trying to open the cake box, Shekhawat hovered around hopping mad while his car kept honking outside. Some ladies rushed to Nazma’s aid and finally tore open the box. By then Shekhawat was gone.
But that was not the end of Nazma's misery. A search party of ladies, headed by Nahid Khan set out to find the knife amid the tall grass of the Garden, even as the exercises continued. Nazma sat on a bench, guarding the exposed cake and directing the search party on the route she had taken from the gate. Clearly, she was on the verge on tears.
Enter Harish Wadhwa (left). Seeing the lady in distress, he promptly strode out of the Garden without uttering a word. In 15 minutes he was back, holding aloft a deadly 18” dagger he claimed to have borrowed from a grocery (that only he found open) nearby. But it looked every inch a butcher’s knife. Yusuf Rassiwala, in fact, commented that it had just been used to slit open a goat’s throat, throwing Ramila Mistry into spasms of ‘Ram, Ram, Ram…’
Thus, with dagger drawn, the cake was cut and served. The search party returned and posed for this keepsake pic -- of a memorable birthday celebration. All’s well that ends well!
Harish Wadhwa:
* These women seem to be enjoying a picnic. Blog Monster, you have dramatised the knife incident so much that readers must be wondering, what these folks were up to. It was an action-packed morning and fun-filled.
* Missed Arora-ji and his terror. Grapevine has it that he has fled to 'Pattawa' (from Singapore) for enjoying the beach. Is Arora-ji reading this... LOL