Toffees ‘n’ Lozenges

Tara Chand Seth celebrates with toffees...

...and Bhaswati Bose says it with lozenges

Toffees and lozenges all the way… from Birmingham to Lokhandwala Garden, with Tara Chand Seth and Bhaswati Bose today celebrating India’s thrilling five-run victory over England in the ICC Champions Trophy final on Sunday. The celebration would have been more appropriate yesterday (see post), but since the match had ended in the wee hours of the morning, nobody had come prepared. Tara Chand admitted he did not expect India to win and had actually fallen asleep with the TV on even as the match was in progress. “I woke up when there were only five overs remaining,” he said. “That was when I realized the match was worth watching.”
A mad scramble broke over Bhaswati’s lozenges when she declared that there was one lozenge for every person who had watched the match and an additional one for those who supported her idol M.S.Dhoni. Automatically everybody got two each till some people pointed out that Dhoni had got out for a duck. Promptly she made a bid to take back their lozenges when others announced that they hadn’t even watched the match and would not return their lozenges. In the scuffle that followed, Ved Prakash Grover could be heard yelling that he was entitled to three lozenges because he was the first to phone Bhaswati and inform her of the match result!

Santosh Tyagi

Meanwhile, concern is mounting over Santosh Tyagi’s continued absence since last week. She is one member who rarely takes a day off without informing. This time there is complete silence from her end, leaving Grover and Srichand Arora to speculate that maybe she is preoccupied with shifting residence to Mira Towers. Arun Patil’s comment of “lafdewala building” kindled Geeta Sardhana’s curiosity and she immediately wanted to know more. What emerged from piecing together different accounts by members was a sequence of coincidences which were nothing short of bizarre.
It seems that the Shiney Ahuja rape case had taken place in the building where Santosh was staying earlier – Tarapore Towers. Later, she shifted to Samarth Aangan where the Arun Tiku murder case took place last year. Now she is moving to Mira Towers, which again is in the news, this time for a high-profile prostitution racket that was busted last Thursday. At this rate, any news hound would kill to be in Santosh’s shoes.
Srichand Arora:
* Santosh-ji, what is wrong? Where is it wrong? And why is it so? You have to give us a fair explanation please.
* Thank you, Bhaswati-ji and Tara Chand-ji for the 24 hour long delayed and awaited celebration.