Exodus Continues

Yusuf Rassiwala is concerned about Naseer Putani Shah (l)

Another one from the Club has joined the 'great winter exodus'. Karun Sharma today declared that he would not be coming to the Garden from tomorrow as he is leaving for Benares to attend the Students’ Reunion of his alma mater – Benares Hindu University (BHU).
From there, he would be going to Delhi for an indefinite period.
The day-after, Yusuf Rassiwala shall be leaving for Surat for a week. The odd part is that those who had left earlier and were supposed to have returned by now, are yet to report to the Garden. Kiran Prakash is one such. He had returned from Egypt the day-before yesterday and was expected for the exercises

Karun Sharma

this morning. But there is no sign of him.
The reason such absences have begun to matter is that we are running out of people, even to start the exercises. This morning there were just three of us.

Shekhawat is concerned about Nahid Khan's (l) grand-daughter

(Later of course, many joined in, taking the day’s count to barely a dozen.) On top, we are faced with a disturbing trend of people falling ill due to a sudden change in the weather.
Today Naseer Putani Shah was in a bad shape, coughing continuously and unable to stand for long during the exercises. Yusuf R advised him to take rest at home and see a better doctor than the one he is consulting. Naseer suffers from acute breathlessness, which gets worse every time there is a weather change.
Worse still, is Nahid Khan’s situation. Her grand-daughter has been detected with dengue and was admitted to Cooper Hospital yesterday. The girl is very much attached to Nahid and insists that she stay by her bedside at all times. Nahid says she will have to “do night duty” now at the hospital, which might lead to her skipping the morning exercises in the Garden.
Let us pray that the child recovers soon.