'23 Kilo Days'

Bihari Milwani (r) presents his signature memento with a flower

Bose Babu today became the proud recipient of a rare commendation for a personal feat he was himself unaware of: He has completed 23,000 days on the planet. And who, but the club’s astute chronicler, Bihari Milwani was to remind him of this!
“He will complete 63 years in 10 days,” Milwani explained. “Taking 365 days to a year, there have been 22,995 days in the past 63 years. Add 15 days for the number of leap years during this period. The total comes to 23,010 days. Today he is 10 days short of his birthday. That makes him 23 kilo days to the day.”
Only someone wired up in algorithms (instead of neurons in the brain) is capable of rattling those lines. And this is not in respect of one person only. Milwani keeps track of every notable event in the life of each and every member of the Club. Small wonder, he is generally regarded as smarter than any computer.
But there is a softer side to this man also. He presented Bose Babu a freshly plucked red hibiscus with the following words (roughly translated from Hindi): “This gift from the flower pot of my home/ I offer you with one wish / May you remain forever happy and keep laughing/ And show us the way to be also happy and laughing.”
These were the opening lines of a six stanza poem in blank verse that Milwani had composed (and reproduced verbatim in his signature memento) for what he described as Bose Babu’s 23rd kilo day. “Just try lifting him and you’d know how many kilos he actually is,” quipped Bhaswati Bose.

Lt Col Angad Singh (rtd):
Bihari Milwani is a wonderful person. He is a running encyclopedia. He certainly is very fit to compete in Kaun Banega Crorepati. If he participates and wins the prize, it will be another feather to the Club's cap. Congrats to Bose Babu and Mr Milwani on his brilliant calculation. I wish both of them a very healthy life.

Karun Sharma:
The important thing is that Milwani-ji thinks about others and connects with interesting numbers. The numbers are meant to motivate and make one think of ways to celebrate life on this planet.