Presidential Feast

Mallika (r) attends to her 'guests'

Only the cutlery was missing. We had to make do with paper plates and plastic spoons, but nobody was complaining. The huge helpings of keema-pao and veggies, followed by unending rounds of tea, were as sumptuous as a morning feast can be, befitting hostess Mallika Kagzi’s exalted position as our new president.
“I felt really bad when there was not enough food to go around on Saturday,” she said by way of an apology on under-estimating her popularity at the Club meeting (ref post of April 2).

Banoo Apa

“I did not honestly expect so many people to turn up and honor me.

Party time, once again!

Since some friends went away disappointed, this is my way of saying sorry and making amends.”
For most of us though, this proved a ‘double treat’ as we had managed to not only help ourselves on Saturday, but also gorged on the grand repast today. It was also an occasion to wiggle a thumb at those who could not go on the Royal Hills’ picnic yesterday and to remind them in different words, of all the fun and games they missed (check slideshow in the panel alongside). Nahid Khan, Swati Punjabi, Geeta Latte and others were shown snapshots and video recordings of the picnic taken on mobile phones only to make them green with envy.
A silly old man however, struck a discordant note. Not known to any of us, he picked on Banoo Apa in the middle of the exercises and lectured her on a Marathi proverb, which, in translation, meant that “drum beats sound good from a distance”. Taken aback, Banoo was at a loss to figure out the intention behind the lecture and why, of all the people, was she being singled out to hear such tripe. She flared up and unceremoniously packed off the foolish old fellow.
“I don’t like being called out by some random stranger,” she muttered to herself before resuming the exercises.
Lt Col Angad Singh (from Mohali):
It appears that the 'laafter club' pays more attention to the belly rather than fitness of the body and soul. Let us be more attentive towards laughing and joking and be happy and healthy.