Reunion

A festive air prevails on an otherwise cold, winter morning 

A festive atmosphere prevailed over the Garden this morning as many, who had gone missing for long, marked their return in the New Year. Santosh Tyagi for one, showed up with a box of crispy revdis from Delhi. Zarina Khan, for another, had a packet of chocolates to celebrate her ‘home-coming’. Likewise, there was Kajal Babani, back from a family trip to Lonavala. And then we had Kiran Prakash, having landed last night after a 16-hour flight from New York, catching up with all he had missed during his absence.
Bijoy Gupta also turned up, after what he described as a “very heavy” New Year celebration at home with his son, who is here from London. Clearly, it has taken him three days to sober down from the “daami drinks” (read expensive Scotch) he has been imbibing all this while. He said he had come only for Shekhawat’s party (yesterday’s post) and became completely disoriented upon finding it postponed yet again.
This time though, Shekhawat did not commit to any date.