Lost and Found

Bijoy Gupta (l) is completely confused over the loss of his house keys 

Last year, we had put up a racy, 20-minute skit on our Annual Day function (ref post of September 10, 2016). Called Sone Ka Haar, it was about a missing gold chain and how, in a curious comedy of errors, the Club gets involved searching for it. The play ends in an anti-climax as the owner (played by Santosh Tyagi) eventually finds the damn thing!
Today, life imitated art. Bijoy Gupta reported early morning that he had lost his house keys in the Garden yesterday and were it not for his wife having a duplicate set, he would have been locked out. He had searched high and low, but to no avail. Siba Prasad Maitra warned Gupta that this was no laughing matter

Childish glee on getting back his keys

and for all he knew, the finder of the keys would one day, ransack his house.
So the search began. But scouring the Garden for two tiny keys (“one for the outer door, another for the inner door”,

Gupta quizzes the watchman

as Gupta explained) was akin to searching for a needle in a haystack. Before long, the search narrowed down to the spot where Gupta did his ‘uchhal kood’ yesterday, as Maitra put it (see post). Drawing a blank there also, Gupta relapsed into mimicking Dilip Kumar once again, completely forgetting about the lost keys.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, the keys materialised before Gupta’s eyes. The Garden watchman had found them lying around yesterday and kept them securely. The way Gupta’s face lit up on finding his keys was a sight to behold. So pleased was he that he promptly announced a lassi treat for everyone today. Kiran Prakash tried to dissuade him, saying that getting a new set of keys made would probably work out more economical. But Gupta was insistent. He was thrilled to bits, so much so that after the lassi, he wanted to take us for tea!
Maitra was to have last word. “Whatever happens, happens for the good,” he said, tongue firmly in cheek.
Bihari Milwani:
Now Bijoy Gupta knows where to find his keys the next time he loses them.