Second Winter

Recounting happy moments from Saturday

Sunita Jajodia wore the club cap for the first time today. She had not felt the need to cover her head earlier, even when it was peak winter a few weeks back. Now, with what is being attributed to “upper air cyclonic circulation”, we are in the midst of unseasonal rainfall and literally, a second spell of winter. It was so cold this morning that many, including Sardar Teja Singh did not turn up. The Garden looked almost deserted. Those who came were wrapped in woolens. Even then, the exposed parts of the body were numb in the freezing cold. One brave young man in skin-tight T-shirt and with his navel exposed, exercised solo a short distance, blissfully unaware that his pajama was slowly slipping down his huge paunch. Suddenly, he was left posing gloriously in his blue V-front underwear, arms raised in a yogic posture and pajamas neatly bunched at his feet!
None of this bothered us though. Meeting after the Saturday picnic (see post), there was enough warmth generated in recounting how Santosh Tyagi had danced for the first time, the songs Ved Prakash Grover sang with the others, some of the home-made food we shared, the joy of boating together in the afternoon rain… all the while wondering if we would ever again get to enjoy so much. Everyone agreed we should organise one such outing every second-Saturday of the month. Dilip Babani said he’d do a recce of the Hanging Garden, Byculla Zoo and Botanical Garden before deciding on the destination for our next picnic.