Under the Weather

Bijoy Gupta

Bijoy Gupta turned up for the exercises unusually late and within minutes, began to hyperventilate. Much as he tried to make light of it, he was requested to take a seat and quietly relax. Eventually he relented, but his condition turned from bad to worse. He looked flushed and kept wiping his face.

Exercising in China Hut while it rains cats and dogs outside

“I don’t know why I am sweating so much,” he complained.
It was apparent that he was in distress since he kept shifting position to be directly under a fan in the China Hut. It was raining continuously outside. Ultimately, at the instance

Yusuf Rassiwala

of Nahid Khan and Razia Khan, he agreed to go home and take rest. He was escorted out through the heavy downpour and deposited safely at his place.

Zarina Khan

Banoo Apa

Gupta is not the first victim of foul weather this year. It is unlikely that any one of us has been spared by the current monsoon spell. Banoo Apa is yet to recover from the viral epidemic that struck her a week back. Zareena Khan is similarly down since last Tuesday. Kiran Prakash is also indisposed. Yusuf Rassiwala was nursing a sore throat, body cramps and fever till he had to rush to Surat on work, braving torrential rains. The good news is that he returned yesterday, secure and sound.
Significantly, there are some members who are quite fine and yet, have stopped coming to the Garden. They do not obviously want to take chances. With the virus in the air, the general apprehension is that they too would catch it while exercising in the closed confines of the China Hut. But then, do we have a choice?