Bonding Time

As the intensity of the monsoon increases, attendance at the club decreases. Today, only five members showed up, dripping wet, fresh from the early morning showers: Shekhawat, Rane, Grover, Bose and Monthi. Later, Mumtaz, Bhatt and Kiran joined in. For the rest, the warm comfort of the bed was obviously more tempting than stepping out of home and getting dirty in the park.
After the exercises, Shekhawat (see pic) made a formal announcement about this blog. He invited everybody to visit the site and post their comments – the idea being to make this blog as interactive as possible. As these are early days still, we realize there is plenty of scope for its improvement. But in another fortnight, we should be up and running. This blog will become a regular feature – a kind of daily bulletin (with photographs) on whatever happens in the club, be it the constant scraps and pranks played between members or Santosh-ji’s narration of jokes, birthday celebrations or strange visitations of birds of passage. You would agree that a lot happens during that one hour in the park, much of it hilarious, which you'd like to share with your families and friends, wherever they are. Some of you might have children/grandchildren out of Mumbai (and/or settled overseas) who would like to know the kind of company you keep. Even you – for the mornings you miss coming to the club – will now be able to keep abreast of the happenings through this blog. Maybe, all this might not matter to you today. But six months later, or a year down the line, when you revisit these pages, you will realize its importance.
So please treat this as your own blog – like you treat the club your family. Just click on comments below and type whatever you like. Already, Arora-sah’b has sent in a lovely comment from Singapore in our previous page. Now we know what he is up to and likewise, he is able to keep track of us long-distance. This is what bonding is all about. And our blog is meant to only strengthen this bonding.
--Big Laaf