Ganesh Chaturthi 2013

Happy GANESH CHATURTHI!

A new dawn. The beginning of a new week. More significantly, Ganesh Chaturthi, the beginning of ten-day festivities nation-wide in celebration of the elephant-headed deity – the harbinger of all good, the remover of all obstacles, the god of all auspicious beginnings…
Sardar Teja Singh Bhambra began a new inning in the Club today with a boxful of rich Bikaneri barfi for all at the Garden.

GENEROSITY PERSONIFIED: Teja Singh offers barfis to all

He had returned from a month-long visit to Faridabad, his hometown and was so generous with his offering that many on the walking track were simply taken aback when he stopped them midstride with those sweets. Some picked up two or three pieces together, unable to resist the temptation. And it all started with Nahid Khan, gamely (if not shamelessly) asking what he had brought in his bag this morning. “Bikaniri barfi laya ji,” was his reply.
If this should be a happy augury (as is commonly believed), well, we could be in for more sweets and sweets and sweets… in times to come. And the bonhomie and merry making that usually accompany such celebrations will allay all concerns of diabetes and rising blood sugar levels. We raised an extra laugh for Monthi Serrao’s birthday yesterday and for the first time, punctuated each round of our exercises with a full-throated chorus of “Ganapati Bappa-Moriya”!
Indeed, Happy Ganesh Chaturthi everyone.
Jagmohan Papneja:
May Lord Ganesh give you a promise for every care, an answer to your prayer. Wish you all a happy Ganesh Chaturthi.
Srichand Arora (from Singapore):
Teja Singh-ji, welcome back. Please don't forget my share of Bikaneri sweets. I am last in the queue. But that doesn't mean I don't need them. Please keep a little for me when I get back.