Duel at Dawn

Playing to gallery: Shekhawat challenges Gupta over Rs100,000

It looked like a day of reckoning for Shekhawat and Bijoy Gupta. The latter wouldn’t pay the Rs100,000 he had promised to the Club should he be made chairman. And the former wouldn’t allow him to stay in peace, now that he had relinquished the post by a written undertaking in Gupta’s favour.
The matter has been flogged to death over the past two months and frankly, nobody could be interested any longer. But Shekhawat wasn’t willing to give up on the illusory Rs100,000. He has called Gupta names, embarrassed him no end and like every other day, needled him right through the exercises today. Things reached a head when Jagmohan Papneja had to intervene, even extending Gupta the facility of EMIs (equated monthly installments) over a period of one year. Angad Singh was even more gratuitous. “You can pay at the rate of Rs100 a year,” he advised Gupta.
Still, nothing was coming of it.

Arora wants to know about the car that hit Mumtaz 

So after the exercises, Shekhawat confronted Gupta head on to part with the cash. The altercation fast drifted towards a classic ‘duel at dawn’ with Gupta striking the pose of a boxer. Shekhawat riled him as a no-man before a group of bemused ladies. “A man talks with one tongue and keeps his word,” he reminded Gupta. Out of nowhere Banoo Apa piped in, “I am a lady and I also talk with one tongue,” thereby throwing the two combatants instantly off-gear. A potentially violent situation soon diffused into laughter and the duel was averted for the day.
Meanwhile, Mumtaz Jahan was to show up, complaining to Srichand Arora of how the Club no longer cares for her (actually she has been hibernating in Kashmir for long) and that nobody had even checked on her after a recent accident near Lokhandwala Market. A speeding Innova grazed against her, sending her crashing to the ground and leaving her with multiple bruises on her ankle and arms. “What about the car?” Arora asked earnestly. “I hope it wasn’t damaged?”
That brought an end to Mumtaz’s tale of woe.
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