That’s the Spirit!

Srichand Arora (below, left) is not one to ordinarily own up to physical distress. However severe the pain, he would gamely soldier on and maintain that he is “perfectly fit and fine”. So this morning, when he sat through part of the exercises, many were shocked. Nobody had ever seen Arora breaking out of the exercise circle for a breather on the bench. Later it turned out, he had over-exerted himself during his morning walk and the excruciating pain in his heels had got the better of him. He could not even stand.
Kishor Babani (right) is no different. Last week-end, he collided with a handcart in a busy marketplace and had hurt himself. But not for a day did he miss coming to the Garden. All he had to show for the accident were a few abrasions on his right forearm and elbow. He joked about those tell-tale marks, mimicked a one-armed mannequin during the exercises and merrily drove around in his car. But behind that cheerful exterior, there was pain. Eventually good sense prevailed and he got an X-ray done. It revealed two hairline fractures. This morning, he was at the Garden, his arm in a sling.
Casualty three: Moti, the headstrong octogenarian (best known for authoring the Thought of the Day quotes on the Garden blackboard) was doing his regular rounds on the walking track when suddenly, he felt faint. Before he lost his balance, two ladies walking alongside raised an alarm and Moti was made to sit on a bench. A crowd gathered, but the man did not accept even a glass of water. He insisted he was fine – just that he had been fasting since yesterday and was continuously on his PC for six hours. Before long he stood up, dusted himself and strode out of the Garden.
All this had to happen this morning.
Renu Babani's PICSPEAK:
* The hilarious bunch... We will never change!
* "What pain? Our positivity keeps us going always!"
Harish Wadhwa:
* Our injured folks are sher-dil-jawan and therefore they keep up a brave front.
* A suggestion to all married men in general: Treat your wife as goddess, give in to all her demands, eat whatever she cooks, do all the housework and never raise your hand or feet... to avoid appearing on the 'Album of the Injured'. All the ladies in the lead pic are in agreement with this suggestion, as it appears from their smiling faces.