Saturday, October 24, 2015

Welcome Relief

Tian Serrao, Raman and Akshat Chaudhury take centre-stage
Festival fatigue has set in, right and proper. Muharram began on October 13 and attendance at the Garden crashed immediately. The nine-day Navaratri festivities running concurrently ended with Dussehra on October 22, making way for Ashura – the most auspicious day of the holy month of Muharram.
Tomorrow, the Durga Puja idols would be immersed and soon after, we shall have a train of mini pujas and celebrations, beginning with Vishwakarma Puja, Laxmi Puja, Jagaddhatri Puja, Kartik Puja
Three Musketeers
and climaxing with the mother of all pujas and festivals on November 11 – DIWALI.
Thus, it is only natural for the daily headcount to drop at this time of the year. We have got used to this by now. But what we are not accustomed to is the spike in humidity conditions during the festive season. Kiran Prakash felt so uncomfortable today that for the first time he wanted to abandon the exercises and go home.
Lion and Lioness Laughter!
Even Ved Prakash Grover kept complaining about the heat and went away eventually. Fehmida Khan paced up and down restlessly, unable to continue with the exercises…
In all this, what came as a welcome diversion was the presence of three little kids – Tian Serrao, Raman and Akshat Choudhary. They were our saviors for the morning, taking centre-stage and regaling us with their antics -- so much so that they kept our minds away from the maddening heat and humidity.
Akshat is of course, a veteran by now, which probably entitled him to turn up fashionably late today. By then, Tian had got us all charged up with Raman matching him step for step. The former is Monthi Serrao’s grandson, and in many ways, Akshat’s senior -- even as both are six years old and studying in the first grade. Tian had made his debut in our midst as a seven-month-old in 2010 and was instantly conferred life membership of the Club. In comparison, 12-year-old Raman is a new entity.
Lt Col Angad Singh (retd) from Mohali:
Humidity saps energy very swiftly without letting you know. You should drink lots of fluids. Lemon water is the best remedy.

1 comment:

Angad Singh said...

Humidity saps the energy very swiftly and without letting the individual know. It brings down the energy considerably. One should drink lot of fluids. Lemon water is the best remedy. Attendance in the garden will increase once the festivities increase.