Lasting Impact

Last Saturday’s tamasha (see post) seems to have left a lasting impact on the ladies of the Club. This was evident from the way they were all anxious to fill Monthi Serrao with the details when she reported to the Garden this morning (left) after her 20-day vacation at Mangalore. She had very graciously brought some mysur paaq for us and it would have been only appropriate to enquire about her wellbeing and allow her to narrate how she had enjoyed herself back home. Instead she was bombarded with a blow-by-blow account of all that had transpired with those upstarts of the Yoga Group – to the exclusion of all else that had happened in the past three weeks.
Significantly, some other ladies of the Yoga Group also joined in, mainly to side with us. It was clear that they differed with the views and attitude of their colleagues and from the way things were shaping up at their end, there could be a showdown soon.
Earlier, Razia Khan informed that she might have to cancel her Bangalore trip tomorrow as the condition of her sister has worsened (see post of May 25). At present she is on a ventilator. At the instance of Srichand Arora, we observed a one-minute silence, offering our prayers to the suffering lady.