Headless Chickens

Kiran Prakash appeals to everyone to participate

Time is ticking away and there has been no headway on the Annual Day function scheduled on January 16, 2016 (ref post of December 16). Not one rehearsal has been held so far. Razia Khan, who took the initiative in mobilizing members and had even drawn up a detailed ‘program sheet’ for the evening, has apparently developed cold feet now. She has stopped coming to the Garden.
Clearly left in the lurch, Kiran Prakash today appealed once again to the collective conscience (and individual talent) of all members to “actively participate” in the function and make it a bigger success than the last time.
“I expect you all to take part,” he emphasized. “I want you to tell me by tomorrow morning what you would individually like to do for the function. After tomorrow, we shall not be able to entertain any request from anybody!”
Harbans Kaur repeated her wish to sing two Punjabi folk songs while Fahmida Khan parroted her intention to stage a ‘mimicry show’. Swati Punjabi

Razia Khan

and Monthi Serrao said they were ready to do whatever they were told and Mallika Kagzi, as usual, reiterated she was incapable of doing anything. Mumtaz Jahan said she is an accomplished singer-dancer-actress rolled into one while Bhaswati Bose offered to put together a 15-minute AV presentation on the Club’s recent South India tour.
But all that is not enough. What Kiran Prakash needs is someone with organizational skills, prepared to devote time and inspire by example, conduct rehearsals at odd hours and effectively, get his/ her hands dirty. A supervisory command-and-control mechanism can never work. For ours is a peculiar Club with a distinctive herd mentality. We always like to follow the leader. We need a driver to push-start the car and once it is up and running, everybody else will climb in automatically.
Right now, our best bet for such an inspirational and capable driver is Razia Khan. Sadly, the last time around, she did not get the kind of support and encouragement she had expected from the Club for volunteering her services. Unless she can be persuaded to change her mind (or someone else is identified in her place), we shall be left with a lot of headless chickens and a very slim chance of staging the Annual Day function on schedule.
Kiran Prakash:
Rest assured, the Annual Day function will be held on schedule and we shall do even better than last time. Razia Khan is very much there with her super organisational skills to get the best out of every participant and make the event a grand success.
Anonymous:
Dear Kiran Prakash-ji, your event manager is not working as per your schedule. Please deduct one day's salary from her as a deterrent penalty.
Kiran Prakash replies:
Our event manager is working double-time. She is working even from home. She deserves two day's additional salary as reward. Please keep watching her and you too will admire her commitment and effort.