Crazy World

CORONATION CEREMONY: Razia 'caps' Mallika

It’s a crazy world we have created around ourselves. A pen drive, that refused to open anywhere, wakes up magically this morning and plays folk songs on Arun Patil’s speaker box. A new member gone missing, is sought to be tracked through his wife. A diamond solitaire, long given up as lost, was discovered by its owner today in the Garden… And into this mad, mad world, a new member was admitted with a Club cap!
Mallika Kagzi has been religiously attending our exercises and within three weeks has endeared herself to all members. So when she complained of the terrible heat this morning, Srichand Arora left the exercises for home and returned with a Club cap to cover her head from the blazing sun.

MISSING: Bijoy Gupta

The ‘coronation ceremony’ that followed makes Mallika a member in principle, pending a formal approval by the Club at its next meeting.
Another newly inducted member, Bijoy Gupta became a cause for concern after he did the vanishing trick. For more than a month, there has been no trace of him, thus leading to all kinds of speculation. Shekhawat today added to the mystery with an ambiguous comment: “He cannot come to the Garden because of his wife”. “Chalo, let’s find his wife then,” suggested Nahid Khan. Somehow, that sounded as the most brilliant solution to our make-believe problem.
Shekhawat himself was in a fix over a pen drive someone gifted him in his village. It contained rare recordings of Rajasthani folk – just that he was unable to play it. He tried the music player at home, the PC, DVD player, laptop, TV set… nothing worked. His wife concluded that he had been made “ullu” of with a dud pen drive.

LOST AND FOUND: Is it a genuine diamond?

So to prove her wrong, he brought it today to the Garden and lo and behold, Arun got the damn thing playing. It was an incredible moment of triumph for Shekhawat as he can now tell his wife that he is not what she thinks.
Another happy person was Bhaswati Bose who found a diamond piece shining amid the grass of the Garden this morning. Two days back, she discovered that the diamond in her wedding ring had fallen off and since then, she had been moving heaven and earth trying to trace it. She didn’t stand a chance because she had no clue when it had fallen off, where (it could on the roads or at home, even in the sink) and most important, it was no more than a tiny speck. But for pure sentimental reasons, she persisted with her search. And there it was today, in the Garden, waiting to be picked up. Everybody dismissed it as too much of a coincidence. But she took it home and tried it on her ring. It fitted perfectly. Now what remains to be checked is whether it is the genuine diamond… or a worthless glass imitation.
Jagmohan Papneja:
* We are pleased to welcome Ms Mallika Kagzi as a member of Big Laaf -- one of the most inspiring clubs around.
* People like you, Bhaswati-ji are known to work towards their goal every day without fail. As a result you were able to get back your precious diamond. No doubt you have proved that diligence is the mother of luck.
Harish Wadhwa:
Miracles do happen, just that they don't happen to me (sob, sob)! But congratulations to Bhaswati-ji for finding the diamond of her ring. But the diamond she owns (as a husband) outshines the glow of the one she found after such diligent search. Lucky she now boasts of two diamonds locked in her home and her heart.