‘Made in England’

Club president Mallika Kagzi greets Aman with a toffee

We had a special guest today. Two-year-old Aman traveled all the way from Bournemouth, U.K. to pay us a visit at the Garden this morning during the exercises. He was accompanied by his mother and doting grand-dad, Bihari Milwani.
This was Aman’s first trip to India. Coming from a sparsely populated beachside resort (located on the south coast of England), the tiny tot was hardly amused on seeing so many of us together creating a ruckus early morning.

Aman introduces himself

But he kept a brave front for the best part and was overheard pestering his mom constantly with queries like, “Why is she like that?” (pointing at Khatoon Baig) and “What are they doing?” (pointing at the rest of us). And when we were all to let out that blood curdling roar on the Lion and Lioness Laughter round, Aman concluded that enough was enough

Not amused!

“Let us go back!” he declared at that point, trying desperately to climb up his mother’s legs. The efforts of Yusuf Rassiwala, Geeta Latte and others

Safe in mom's arms

at engaging him in baby talk only made things worse. Ultimately, it took a toffee from Mallika Kagzi to calm our little boy and get him around.
Thereafter, he was on a roll.

The new 'Popcorn' war dance

The exercises over, Rakhee Bansi took Aman aside to a corner bench, plying him with chocolates and he in turn, digging into her handbag for more. The best part was Bihari beaming with pride all morning watching his grandson’s antics. He was the one to have christened the child, “Made in England" before going to see him first time in the Diwali of 2014.
In between, Karun Sharma had his first one-to-one counseling session with Kajal Babani after the exercis
es. He also introduced us to another game (on popular demand), funnily called 'Popcorn'. Apparently, this is a follow-up on the ‘Toy Handshake’ he showed us some time back (ref post of January 17).
Karun says he can teach us many such self-motivational games, but the only problem is whether we would be able to accommodate them in our one-hour routine. At best, we shall have to keep them discretionary, as many of us need to attend the yoga classes in the China Hut. Some others, like Bihari need to catch up with work and leave the Garden by 8:00 max.
Geeta Latte:
Soooooooooo cute pictures... phir bhi dil hai Hindustani💟💟💟