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Kiran Prakash obliges with his mobile

Even after nine days, there is yet no clarity on the person featured in the eleventh edition of the Pehchaan Kaun guessing game announced last-to-last Sunday (ref post of January 18). With one day remaining for the announcement of results, the Club witnessed hectic activity this morning as several hitherto reticent members made last ditch efforts to unravel her identity.

Mallika Kagzi being 'sized' up!

Kiran Prakash helpfully displayed her b&w mug shot on his mobile phone for the benefit of those who came in late and himself took a shot in the dark by naming Nahid Khan as his prime suspect. Srichand Arora targeted Mallika Kagzi. And Razia Khan switched from Mallika to Geeta Sardana, only to revise it to Ruksana Khan within minutes and then modifying it to “either of the two”! So take your pick.
Clearly, nobody is getting any wiser. But amid all this confusion, one name being mentioned most frequently is that of Mallika. Shekhawat did the unimaginable by producing a tailoring inch-tape with him to ‘measure’ her top to toe (one of the questions to be answered is to mention the height of the person) – so confident was he about his hunch.

Peering into images from Ajanta-Ellora

Within seconds, Santosh Tyagi made away with the tape and held one end just above Mallika’s head while Jagmohan Papneja and Sunita Jajodia quickly scrambled on the ground to grab the other end of the tape.
They got the ‘measurement’ they wanted, but Mallika simply could not get over the absurdity of it all. “They even fell at my feet, can you imagine!” she was to exclaim, while narrating how she literally jumped out her skin on finding so many people with a measuring tape around her. But Shekhawat cried foul, saying that was no way to measure anybody’s height; though he himself did not dare to take any chances with Mallika, even if were to be the right way!
Meanwhile, Bhaswati Bose held durbar with her laptop, flicking images from a recent trip to Daulatabad and Ajanta-Ellora (ref pics of January 25). She, along with Monthi Serrao, Fehmida Khan and Naseem Khan have returned from the three-day excursion last Sunday and at the request of Harbans Kaur and others, the photographs were played out to a largely female audience in the China Hut. From all appearances, they had had a gala time out there.
Bihari Milwani:
Answer to Pehchaan Kaun 11: Ruksana, photograph taken at the age of 17 years, she has 3 children and her height now is 5'8".
A:
The enthusiasm of all members to find out the correct answer to Pechaan Kaun show their eagerness to win the trophy. Hale them! Good luck!