An Update

Srichand Arora narrates his experience at the commissioner's office

Srichand Arora today gave an update on the status of our application pending with the Charity Commissioner for registration of the Club. He informed that in response to a summons, he, along with the other three badmashes of Badmaash Company landed at the commissioner’s office near Worli Naka the day before yesterday, only to find the big man gone. He had been summoned in turn to attend an ‘election duty’ meeting, thus leaving Arora and his sidekicks high and dry.
Since then Arora has been on a merry-go-round hobnobbing with junior officials, getting our papers in order, signing and countersigning wherever asked… “You people have only to see that office,” he narrated. “It is worse than any government office you could have ever seen. Forget air conditioning, there is just one fan in a hall and that too, placed above the babu so that the rest of us can die in the heat. There is a huge mela of people out there but nobody knows anything about what is going on!”

Nahid Khan

Monthi Serrao

Nevertheless, Arora is optimistic that the job will be done in a week. “I would like to believe that the elephant has got through and only its tail remains,” he explained. “And after it is done, we will have a grand party…” Before he could finish, Razia Khan intervened: “No, we will all give you a grand party.”
Meanwhile, the mystery around the disappearance of Monthi Serrao and Nahid Khan has been deepening with every passing day. Neither of them are the kind to stay away from the Garden for any length of time without intimation. And now, both are not even responding to phone calls.
Shekhawat, who claims to know everything about everyone, says that Nahid is not in Mumbai. And about Monthi, he does not know. Bhaswati Bose says she is suffering from cough and cold while Harbans Kaur says that she is busy with guests at home and could have even gone with them out of station. Nobody knows for sure.