Best Laafer Award!

Professor Mirajgaonkar, better known as “Guru-ji” to members, came up with a funny proposal this morning. He wants a Best Laugher Award (sic) instituted by the Club, to be presented every year on World Laughter Day – the first Sunday of May. He also urged that this news be published in a local paper at the earliest.
The idea, he said, occurred to him when some members gathered to celebrate Laughter Day at the Garden yesterday. This blog had already observed the Day on May 1 itself. Now, since yesterday was Mother’s Day (May 8), Srichand Arora maintained that it would be better to celebrate Laughter Day today. So we raised an extra Ha-Ha after the exercises this morning – in effect, scoring a hat trick of World Laughter Days for the year.
As for the new award instituted, Guru-ji (above) spelt out the criteria for qualifying: one, the person should be regular in attendance and two, s/he be able to laugh the loudest and in the most carefree manner. Both the factors would presumably demonstrate a person’s seriousness towards laughing. Furthermore, as a token of appreciation, the Club should award a replica of the Laughing Buddha, he suggested.
Everybody gave Guru-ji a patient hearing and looked towards Shekhawat-ji for implementing the idea. To start with, this would involve maintaining a roster for marking daily attendance, according to Arora-sah’b. Shekhawat-ji just looked the other way, as in any case, he will be off on a holiday from Thursday.
The other person who is proceeding on vacation is Monthi Serrao (right). Today was her last day at the Garden before she leaves for Mangalore for three weeks. We wish her a safe journey and enjoyable time with her folks and look forward to her return on May 30.