Churning

Harbans Kaur

Nahid Khan

We are yet to stabilize after all the comings and goings that had started after Diwali. The numbers have no doubt swelled, such that we were a healthy 20-plus this morning. This was in spite of the absence of regulars like Razia Khan, Monthi Serrao and Mallika Kagzi. And now news comes in of Nahid Khan taking off on her annual vacation to Lucknow by the early morning train tomorrow. She will be back on November 28.
If that were not enough, Harbans Kaur is also leaving us tomorrow, for her home town Ludhiana. She has been quite irregular to the Garden of late, mainly because of her knee problem. Despite that, every time she showed up, she had brought some sweets – the last occasion being the day after Guru Nanak Jayanti (ref post of November 7).

Bihari Milwani, back to the pavilion

She had to come by auto-rickshaw as she could barely walk. We hope and pray she gets a good doctor in Ludhiana who would provide her some relief. And a very Happy Birthday (in advance) to her on November 29.
Meanwhile, Bihari Milwani marked his return from a trip to the United Kingdom, where he had gone to see his one-year-old grandson for the first time. Srichand Arora, as usual, joked with him (they go back a long time) on whether he had gone to fix his own marriage – if not, if it was his daughter’s marriage – if not if it was a baby born… Milwani was clearly too tired to argue as his flight back (Air India, of course) was delayed by eight harrowing hours. He was supposed to be in Mumbai yesterday morning, but could get out of the airport only in the evening. In that time, anybody could have flown twice up and down Heathrow. But then, as they say, all’s well that ends well.
Srichand Arora:
Friends, let me share this good news with all. We had applied for registration of Big Laaf in the month of December 2013 and since then, we have been making countless rounds of the Charity Commissioner's office to clear so many hurdles. We wanted the registration for BIG LAAF only without adding a single word like company, foundation, association, etc. to it. Finally this has been approved and the Registration Certificate should be issued in 2 to 4 days time. I personally am very thankful to our dear members -- Mr Derek Bose, Mr Harish Wadhwa and Mr Arun Patil for the trouble/ pain they took for the purpose. Without their support, this would have never been possible. Special thanks to dear Arun Patil who was always with us for this purpose. I would appreciate if you all put an extra laughter for them tomorrow. They deserve this. THANKS!