Mobile Yoga?

Kiran Prakash (on the phone) is lost in his own world

Today we got to witness how a seemingly inconsequential act can be blown out of proportion and become the subject of intense speculation in the Club. More significantly, it was Kiran Prakash, of all the people, who had to bear the brunt of all the needless, yet hilarious hullaballoo.
Kiran Prakash’s only crime was that he had withdrawn from the exercise circle and kept himself occupied with his mobile phone on a bench. Nothing unusual about that though. From Naseer Putani Shah to Shekhawat to Karuna Waghmare, anybody feeling unwell or exhausted would withdraw to a bench to rest. Why, Kiran Prakash himself spent the best part of the morning yesterday resting on a bench.
What made all the difference today was the mobile phone glued to his ears. The ladies were the first to notice and sure enough, they smelled a rat. “He must be speaking to his girlfriend,” was the common refrain. Khatoon Baig put it politely as a “personal matter” and requested everybody not to disturb Kiran Prakash.

Karuna Waghmare demands an explanation from Kiran Prakash

“He has become Majnu,” she remarked. "Surely he must be getting response from the other end..."
Bhaswati Bose added a new perspective by describing the unending phone talk as “mobile yoga” – clearly a fallout from the World Yoga Day yesterday. Dilip Babani launched off on a spiel about the harmful effects of talking on a mobile for long periods. “Kiran Prakash does not realize the damage being done to his brain due to radiation from the mobile,” he said while the exercises continued uninterrupted.
Bijoy Gupta listened intently to Dilip, large-eyed but did not understand a word. He turned around and asked in a loud whisper: “Has Kiran Prakash been made the new president of the Club?” He went on to explain that our past presidents were famous for being a law unto themselves and would never follow what others do. “Why else is he not exercising with us?” Gupta asked.
From where he was sitting, Kiran Prakash had no inkling what was being talked of him. Truth is he has been advised not to exert himself for a few days, following a particularly strenuous medical test recently. But then he is not obliged to explain anything to anybody. Nobody is.
Bihari Milwani:
Kiran-ji has become an evaluator for all of us and would shortly announce who is entitled to receive the prize for doing correct (and disciplined) exercises.