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Mohar Singh should better do something to himself and fast – grow a beard, get a wig, wear an eye patch… just about any disguise would do so long as he is not mistaken as one of the front-runners to Rashtrapati Bhavan. He ought to also hire some armed bodyguards before president Pranab Mukherjee retires on July 24.
So close is the resemblance between Mohar Singh and Ram Nath Kovind that it is hard to tell them apart at first sight.

Shekhawat celebrates wife's birthday

Their height, gait, complexion, spectacle frame… even their smile is similar. Predictably, this has given rise to the age-old theory of twins separated at birth and its many variations of losing one another

Karun Sharma speaks of World Yoga Day

at a village mela -- only to surface later in life, one at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, and the other, at Lokhandwala Garden No 4.
“Mohar Singh only needs to dress up stiff in a safari suit or with tie and blazer and enter the Garden,” opined his friend, Bijoy Gupta this morning.

Mohan Kanwar Shekhawat

“Then watch the fun. There will be total commotion everywhere.”
Strangely, Mohar Singh himself was blissfully unaware of his lookalike and only when told that he might have to take the salute from Shekhawat on Independence Day this year that he got somewhat unnerved.

Dilip Babani (c) treats us all to lassi

“I will go home and check the newspapers,” he said after posing for photographs in the China Hut this morning.
Meanwhile, Shekhawat celebrated his wife’s birthday after the exercises with biscuit packs. Dilip Babani was to supplement this with lassi later. Sadly, Mohan Kanwar Shekhawat could not visit us in the Garden today as she had to leave early morning to collect her husband’s blood test reports (ref yesterday’s post) from the naval hospital in Colaba. Here’s wishing her many happy returns of the day, once again.
Today happened to be World Yoga Day also. To mark the occasion, Yusuf Rassiwala invited ‘life coach’ Karun Sharma to say a few words on what yoga is all about and its benefits. Arun Patil joined him with his own perspective of what he described as a “way of life”. Gupta brought up the rear by speaking, not about yoga but on Chinese tai-chi and the benefits from practicing it. All the same, we returned home a little more wiser than earlier.
Lt Col Angad Singh (retd):
* Mohar Singh has to watch out. During World War II there was a double of Field Marshal Montgomery. He was used to mislead Germany in the war efforts. I am not sure whether Mohar Singh could be of use in a similar fashion.
* Happy birthday to Mrs Shekhawat. May she live a healthy, happy and long life.
* Yoga covers physical, mental and spiritual aspects of a person. It also helps in the eradication of ailments. Its training is imparted free almost in all parts of India.