How Time Flies!

Khatoon Baig confides in Yusuf Rassiwala

It was a morning of comparing notes – the provocation being mainly Khatoon Baig who was showing up after a long, long time. The last anybody remembered of seeing her in the Garden was during monsoon time, about eight months ago.
Today she looked bright and chirpy, obviously happy on being welcomed back with great warmth and respect by all present. A fourth laugh was also raised in her honour when she arrived.
Vandana Kankanwar was also there today. She came with the news that her son

Vandana Kankanwar

had passed his three-year honours course in B.A.(Architecture) from a prestigious college in Bandra. We have seen the boy. He would now have to go through a period of internship before qualifying for an architect's licence, the proud mother elaborated.
“How time flies,” she remarked. “It seems like just the other day I was running from pillar to post trying to get him admitted in a decent Mumbai college. Three years has since gone by and I did not even realise it!”
“My grandson was born three years back,” Pushpa Gupta intervened. “So much has happened since, but I distinctly remember every moment, every step he has taken while growing up. Today, I cannot believe he is already three years old.”
Khatoon informed she has shifted residence, having put

A full house today.. after a long time 

her earlier two flats on rent and moving into a bigger place close by. “This is in Indra Darshan,” she said. “It is of course, very spacious but more important, it is closer to the Garden than where I was staying earlier. I shall be able to come regularly now, every morning.”
There is however, one bothersome issue. Khatoon revealed she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s last year (which explains her long absence) and after extensive treatment is now on the road to recovery. But she still requires to be administered medicines at short intervals which leaves her terribly drowsy.
“But I think I’ll be able to manage,” Khatoon said hopefully. “I need to come here daily. This place is like my maikey – maternal home. Where else would I get so much of love? Even Naved (her son) knows how attached I am to this Club and that is why he decided to shift to Indra Darshan. He did it for me.”

Karun Sharma:
It was extremely pleasant to meet Nahid Khan and Khatoon Baig after a long time. Both of them had glittering freshness on their faces as their birthdays are close by. May God bless and keep them healthy.

Lt Col Angad Singh (rtd):
When you are happy, time flies as if it has wings. You realise this only after "so much time has passed". Live happily and enjoy this gift of nature. Its bounties are immense. May God keep everyone hale and hearty.