A Hiccup!

Dilip Babani informs about objections raised over our Annual Function 

With not even five days to go, Shekhawat raised an alarm this morning, expressing grave doubts over the feasibility of holding the Annual Day function on February 23.
Apparently, some people in the Garden had raised objections yesterday to our holding rehearsals and making merry while the nation was mourning the deaths of 40 security personnel in Phulwama (ref post of February 16).
“I do not know the people who had objected,” Shekhawat replied to a pointed query from Yusuf Rassiwala. “They demanded that we defer the function, better yet, scrap it altogether. To be rejoicing at a time when our jawans are being killed in Kashmir does not reflect well on the Club.”
Dilip Babani, who was to join us after the exercises, repeated Shekhawat’s story and added that the men

Razia Khan (c) is recovering in hospital

were quite aggressive when they accosted him last evening. “Don’t you have the elementary common sense not to rejoice when everybody else is condoling the loss of so many lives?” he quoted them as saying.
“Oh, they were possibly people from the candle march taken out in the evening to pay homage to the slain jawans,” surmised Siba Prasad Maitra.

Rukhsana Khan treated us
to sohn papri today

“But then, we had already held a condolence meeting in the Garden on Saturday morning. And on the function day, we are including a special patriotic song in keeping with the solemnity of the occasion.”
Turns out that our annual function would coincide with a ‘musical programme’ scheduled in the neighboring Celebration Club. Both events are contemporaneous with each other. This leads us to the obvious conclusion: Should the musical programme across our boundary wall be held on schedule, we have nothing to worry about. Our show would also be on. But if one has to be canceled or postponed, the other would perforce have to follow suit. Till then, let us stay focused on what we had set out to do. Hiccups happen. No point fretting over what is beyond our control.