Who is Ram Kapoor?

Gita Latte pets Ram Kapoor

Whatever anyone might say about the countless parties in the Club or the calories we keep piling every day, there is really no one to beat our good friend, Ram Kapoor when it comes to fondness for food. He hangs around at the gate of the Garden – not stepping in and not abandoning his post.

Swati Punjabi

The moment he sees anybody from Big Laaf, he would waddle up wagging his tail, expecting his share of the food saved from a morning treat.
Needless to say, we all love Ram Kapoor. In fact, many habitually pack breakfast for him from their homes every morning. But it had been a mystery how he had acquired his name, till Swati Punjabi owned up the other day: “I noticed he was turning obese. Somehow, whenever he sees me, he loses his head and rolls on the ground in joy. He has become really roly-poly… So I started calling him Ram Kapoor. The name has since stuck.”
Today everybody calls him by that name. It seems he too likes to be addressed as Ram Kapoor and no longer responds to 'Sheroo', the name he was known by earlier.

Navin Shah's (in white) Cosmopolitan Party

Mallika Kagzi's tea party

Vinod, the juice-wallah at the gate, had tried pinning another name, ‘Raja’ on him till Ram Kapoor bared his fangs and growled at him. Vinod got the message that day: “He associates ‘Raja’ with

some bad memory that he wants to forget.” Sadly Ram Kapoor could not catch today’s party because it started at the unearthly hour of 6:00a.m. – well before his waking time. An old friend of the Club, Navin Shah had invited the whole Garden to his annual bash meant to celebrate what he describes as Cosmopolitan Day. With wife Aruna playing the gracious hostess and Anna, the idli wallah landing with his bicycle outside the China Hut, the celebrations continued to almost 8:00 a.m.
If that were not enough, Mallika Kagzi separately hosted a ‘special’ tea party under the flowering tree at another corner of the Garden -- exclusively for Club members.
Bihari Milwani:
Are we coming to the Garden for exercises or having parties?