A Dampener

Arora is concerned

Cheer up, Sunita!

Sunita Jajodia is in distress. Before the start of exercises, Shekhawat broke the news of her heart condition turning critical and that she would have to go for a surgery urgently. “Only after the operation, would doctors be able to attend to her gall bladder problem,” he informed.
The news was received with stunned silence and some trepidation. Sunita was present, but took her time to join the exercises. We all knew she was under medication for her ailing heart and does not exert herself too much. The gallstones were a recent development; but many assured her that it would resolve itself on its own.
“We don’t understand this,” Srichand Arora spoke out. “When the doctors need to attend to your liver, why are they after your heart?” Before Sunita could reply, Nahid Khan declared that since the heart had already been appropriated by Sunita’s husband, the doctors were left with the next best option – the liver.
Flawed as the comment was, nobody corrected her and everybody laughed. The idea was to cheer Sunita, much as all were concerned.

Bharat Shah is at the far end, in black T-shirt

Just yesterday, she had got into an altercation with Arora who had jokingly addressed her as “budiya” (old woman). “From what angle do I look a budiya?” Sunita demanded. Tara Chand had to eventually diffuse the situation by telling her that she had heard wrong because what Arora meant was “gudiya” (a doll) and not budiya.
Today being Independence Day-eve, Jagmohan Papneja presented a lowdown of all the events lined up tomorrow in the neighborhood – should anyone be interested. He drew particular attention to a Health Camp at Garden No 2 across the street where free check-ups of heart, blood, bone density, BMI, etc. would be conducted from 9:00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. by a team of eminent doctors.
However, as far as we were concerned, we could only be interested in the platefuls of deep-fried pakodas and chops, dripping rasmalai and tea served in sinful quantities early morning, courtesy Bharat Shah. He has just been blessed with a grand-daughter and needed to celebrate. Now it is for the doctors of the free health camp tomorrow to deal with us and the effects of Bharat Shah’s generosity.