Veg or Non-Veg?

Santosh Tyagi takes Mallika Kagzi to task

The Saturday picnic madness (see post) spilled into this morning with three crazy lines of conversation dominating today's proceedings: One, why did Srichand Arora, Shekhawat and other club biggies abruptly abandon the picnic after the exercises? Two, where did all those who went on their own to Juhu Beach disappear? And three, did Santosh Tyagi really consume non-veg without her knowledge?
On the first count, Arora’s explanation was that he was already running late since he had an appointment to keep at 7:30 a.m. He had merely given Jagmohan Papneja and Ved Prakash Grover a lift home while Shekhawat confessed to a desperate need to do ‘soo-soo’. And Bihari Milwani had to report for work.
On the second count, those who could not fit into the cars (or otherwise turned up late) insisted they had followed us to Juhu Beach and then lost us. In other words, we had given them the slip and they spent the morning searching for us in vain.

Fehmida Khan explains

Only Fehmida Khan was honest enough to admit that she had met a long-lost college friend on the beach and the reunion was more important to her than searching for us.
The third and most critical issue was Santosh Tyagi’s conversion to a carnivore because she actually “liked the taste” of whatever Mallika Kagzi gave her. The latter had only to say that it was keema-pao and Santosh instantly saw red! She refused to believe that anybody could defile her being with ungodly food – turning her into a sinner for straying away from the vegetarian path. The more Mallika reminded her that she had sounded everyone about keema being a pure non-veg dish, the more Santosh got upset. Amid rousing laughter she charged towards Mallika, almost beating her up. Mallika retaliated by threatening (or was it a promise?) to give Santosh “bade ka paya” (buffalo femur soup) next time.
Santosh did not have the stomach to hear any more of it and walked away in a huff.