Ramazan Eve

Fahmida Khan (c) gets birthday calendar from Kiran Prakash

With a day to go for Ramazan, Banoo Apa treated us to chilled mango milk shake after the exercises today. From tomorrow she, like many others, will not

Preparations for cake-cutting

be able to visit the Garden for a month. It shall be a period of severe austerity and fasting – which just turned even more acute due to the extreme summer conditions this time around. Needless to mention, Banoo Apa’s absence would mean

Sharing the first bite of the cake

a month of enforced deprivation for the rest of us in the Garden.
By a happy coincidence, it was Fahmida Khan’s birthday also today. And so we had a double treat on the eve of Ramazan – what with a formal cake cutting ceremony,

Banoo Apa (c) treats us to mango milk shake

followed by south Indian snacks outside the Garden. Fahmida had ensured that close friends like Rukhsana Khan, Banoo Apa, Naseem Khan and others were present on the occasion and it was among them that the first slice of cake was shared.
Earlier in the morning, Kiran Prakash did the honors of presenting Fahmida with her birthday calendar on behalf of the Club and we raised a fourth laugh for her, as per Club tradition. We sang the birthday song as we always do… but Bijoy Gupta was not there today to add that extra zing with his zany musical outbursts. Looks like he is yet to recover from last week's viral attack.