Priceless Moments

Srichand Arora was right when he said that there’s "real" fun and laughter outside the Garden, post-exercise, during the tea session. Harish Wadhwa too has been saying that the main motive for the Badmaash Company to meet every morning is the tea, suitably spiked by Kishor Babani’s piping hot jokes and that the exercises are only incidental.
Indeed, the exercises have become no more than a means for ‘earning’ those priceless moments over tea – more so, in cold wintry conditions. The early morning chill has also taken a toll on attendance (pic above) at the Garden, resulting in all-round dullness during the exercises. From Sitaram Hivarkar to Yusuf Rassiwala and Santosh Tyagi to Razia Khan and Geeta Sardhana, everybody seems to be taking life easy these days. For once, the ladies find themselves outnumbered with only Nahid Khan and Khatoon Baig being both regular and punctual.
In these circumstances, the Badmaash Company can be largely credited for keeping the Club banner aloft – albeit by default. Shekhawat and Grover are also there, but they are not tea drinkers. Besides, like many others, they do not have the appetite for grave worldly matters that agitate Kishor, Harish, Bose, etc. (apart from the jokes, of course). Today, for instance, they discovered a new tea shop and deliberated (bottom pic) on weighty issues like global warming, corruption in public life, vote politics, cannibalism, chaotic traffic, currency controls, water crisis, population explosion… even the future of civilization – all for kicks!
No wonder the chai session lasted well beyond an hour today.
Renu Babani's PICSPEAK:
* Will you please tell us what's so funny that you seem to be in splits and can't stop?
* Honestly, who is the best looking to promote the car?
Harish Wadhwa:
These Badmaash Company individuals certainly need a lot of "Services & Repairing" (see the signboard behind them) for discussing issues that we can do nothing about. Yet, they were shared and debated with enthusiasm like in the parliament as though there's no tomorrow. I wish and pray that some changes happen so that life becomes peaceful and better for one and all. Woh subaha kabhi to aayegi. Incidentally, the chai these days have acquired another companion in batata bhajji and vada pao. Simply irresistible.