‘Pol Khol’ Programme

Brainstorming over the New Year's Day programme

Kiran Prakash’s persistence in having a New Year’s Day celebration in the Garden has finally paid off. After extensive discussions this morning, an uproariously zany programme was conceived

Zarina Khan returned from
Qatar with chocolates

that should leave us all in splits for the rest of 2019.
To be called Pol Khol Programme, this shall be a brainchild of the Club’s two most naturally gifted jokesters, Bijoy Gupta and Fahmida Khan. It is being devised as an unsparingly, all-inclusive, runaway laughter riot befitting the occasion -- something that is refreshingly original, never before witnessed in the Club.
However, details are being withheld, for obvious reasons.
Kiran Prakash had been resolutely pressing for such light-hearted entertainment to usher in the New Year, only to discover that every play, skit or sketch being planned was getting hijacked for the relatively high-profile Annual Day function.
At one point, it was even decided to merge the two events (ref post of November 24) into one. (This would be a pity as we already have a budget allocated specifically for the New Year Day’s celebration.) Were it not for Kiran Prakash’s initiative, we would have drawn a blank on January 1, 2019.
Bijoy Gupta, for one, was visibly ecstatic by today's outcome. With Fahmida as his sounding board, he started bubbling with ideas and even came out with a rough format for the programme. On Yusuf Rassiwala’s suggestion, the two would now fine-tune the details and together hammer out a workable script in the next few days.
As always, light snacks and refreshments would be served on-the-house to all participants at the end of the programme.

Bihari Milwani:
Come on, friends. Your countdown for Annual Function has started. Only 31 days left.