Scare Tactics

Shekhawat (c) is unusually cold towards Gupta

Fahmida Khan (l) buttonholes Bijoy Gupta

Bijoy Gupta met his match in Fahmida Khan this morning. Having failed to provoke Shekhawat enough during the exercises today, he was on his way out of the Garden when Fahmida stopped him at the Gate. Pointing at the gold chain around his neck, she tried to put the fear of God in him: “Don’t you know there are chain snatchers prowling around?”
Not one to be cowed down easily, Gupta dismissed Fahmida saying that he had already met many chain snatchers in the area. “The other day, right opposite my apartment complex these two guys stopped their motorbike in front of me and one of them got down,” he narrated. “I was wearing my sleeveless vest, displaying my body-shody. The gold chain was also prominently visible. I knew they were after it. I struck a threatening pose flexing my muscles and instantly, they started the bike and fled!”
Fahmida wasn’t impressed. She spun a tale of three women (which later became four) sitting on the footpath a few hundred metres down the street. “I know one of them drives an autorickshaw. But they all look very attractive. Any man will fall for their looks and the way they speak English. But the moment

Gupta continues to rave and rant about Shekhawat

you get talking to them, they would strike and you won’t even know when your chain is gone. Even women have fallen victims to them. So you need to warn your wife also!”
This time Gupta’s mouth dropped. He made some noises about wearing nakli gold, only to be told that the women will reappear next morning and give him a tight slap for fooling them with fake jewellery.
Getting slapped by a woman was obviously far more insulting than anything he had ragged Shekhawat about all morning. The odd part was that Shekhawat was unusually cold, just refusing to respond to all of Gupta’s raving and ranting today.
And here, Fahmida had stolen a march on him. Tightening the screws further, she informed Gupta that even our Razia Khan was robbed of her chain on the way to the Garden, just that she is too ashamed to admit it. “That was three months back,” Fahmida said. “Razia was still a kid then. So you too, better be careful now about your chain!”
Bihari Milwani:
Bengal Tiger got scared by Mumbai Lady? Unbelievable!