Strip Tease

We’ve all heard about the strip tease in cabaret joints, pubs and sleazy bars. Some of us have even seen it staged. Today, in the Garden, Hari Naraiyani demonstrated what the show is like by exposing his beautiful body in all its grizzly glory.
This stern-looking, elderly gent (right) can be quite a cat. In many ways he is instrumental in lightening the monotony of the exercises with his constant jabbering, irreverent comments, singing off-key with the music system and refusing to adhere by anybody’s instructions. As Nafisa Syed reasoned, “Time-pass karne ke liye aate hain Harey Bhai (sic).”
This morning Hari-bhai was in an exceptionally garrulous mood. Twice, he was ticked off, but to no effect. He kept at his non-stop banter, not realising that before long, others were taking the cue from him and fooling around during the exercises. At one point during the silent laughter round, Arora-sah’b pulled up Razia Khan (much to Yusuf-bhai’s glee) for engaging the ladies in an impromptu mini-conference.
But Hari-bhai, being a law unto himself, was above all this… till someone pointed out that he was wearing his green T-shirt ulta. Without a moment’s hesitation, he walked out of the circle, took off the shirt in front of everybody, reversed it and walked back. It was a sight to behold, taking everybody by surprise.
Jokingly, Arora-sah’b remarked that he’d now take off his trousers as well. “Woh toh main apni bibi ke saamney kholunga,” was Hari-bhai’s prompt reply. Now, what can you say of such a person?

Renu Babani says:
Frankly speaking, everyone was dumbstruck at Hari-bhai's surprising actions this morning. We certainly had no intention of watching a strip tease this morning (or any other day). Hopefully it will not be repeated. Mr Arora is right in ensuring that the exercises are done with no interference and talking/discussions take place after the exercises are over. However, as usual, everyone was back to their usual wit and things resumed to normal.
--Renu

Derek Bose says:
Are you sure this was not Hari-bhai's style of Gandhigiri? After all, it was Gandhi Jayanti. And it was only fitting that he had attempted the 'naked faqir' act (to the best of his ability) on October 2!
--Bose