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Monday 15 March 2021

          A STAR IS BORN

      What a great start to the POP

month ! A warm welcome to S Murali, distinguished 100th member

who rejoined yesterday after his furlough. It was great to see him join the Bangalore Torpedoes in the 39th anniversary celebrations along with Ian, Ajay, George and Venu. 

Welcome also to the 99th member, the one and only Bala -known to the world at large as "Balls", not for nothing. Some more additions after S.No. 95 went almost unnoticed. Welcome to the never-ageing Sanjeev Upadhyay and our only rep from the North East, Surchand Singh, who has sportingly and characteristically not uttered a word in protest after being labelled Chu Chan Chin in these columns numerous times. The much awaited annual ML from Navnit did not materialize but he more than made up for it by his photo-coverage of the festivities in the Tri-city which he organised. It was actually Joe who gave a kick-start to the proceedings with a moving voice-message and he followed up by attending the event at Chandigarh along with Bhupi and Arvind.Mohinder chipped in, in his usual style by sharing a video speech with positive vibrations. Lest it be forgotten, never one to be out-done, Vicky posed before his own well-stocked bar in Hyderabad and posted the snap as his contribution.Andrews was probably on a trip- one way ticket to nowhere.

The clarion-call was sounded by Dile, well in advance in true CSM style and the well-organised Dilli Dhamaka in DSOI that followed was covered in excellent fashion by SBT. He has become a virtual media-house by himself assisted no doubt by Ankit, his journalist son. Photographs and videos with running commentary in Meerut Hindi were aired in almost real-time

mode.Sanjay Soi missed out while Sanjay Mishra was spotted frantically searching for the venue at the last minute.SSP was conspicuously missing.

It was nice to see Rakesh Luthra from Agra and AK Roychaudri from Indore join at Delhi. Mandy and Rajbir came all the way from Punjab and managed to attend without any incident requiring the intervention of the UN Peacekeeping forces. It is said that there was severe tension at the Singhu Border during the proceedings and a fleet of tractors had been kept on standby mode there just in case.

Narayan, Handa,Pratapda,Saxy, Pandit Tripathiji, Obi,Naithani and Umar added to the festive air and Satbir was seen livening up the event with his wit.Somayya was definitely looking younger than ever. Dile and SBT ominously twirled and compared their moustaches on the side.

Talking of Punjab, the Chandigarh photos showed a dapper US Gill in a very handsome new avatar. Like the New Improved Cherry  Blossom Shoe Polish of bygone days. It is fervently hoped that this version is not a silent one and we see this Unrelenting Sardar in his old articulate form once more.

The Puneri Paltan celebrated in style with home-made wine on the night of the 12th itself. Vijay, Vidur, Bharat Bhushan, SM Pande, Kullu Brar and Kadam graced that event with their majestic presence.

Nirbhye and Vish cheered on from their respective overseas perches.

St.Patrick and Lawrence of Arabia along with similar souls of an exalted nature maintained their stoic silence.

Not so, Katoch. As senior-most in NT-33, he felt obliged to drill in some sense into errant souls with a lecture on Course Camradrie ( Pitamah may correct the spelling).

Having done that, being the wily fox that he is, he softened the blow with an old Hindi senti song. The kind that must have melted many a fair and lovely heart in his heydays.

Out here, it only succeeded in prying out some real dirty " post 8pm" jokes from the ringleader of the Dirty Dozen- Ajay Deb.

In Channai, there being no chapter but only a book, Prem was seen driving up and down Anna Salai with a crate of chiiled beer, while posting some lively numbers to entertain.

The King of Tambaram decided to visit his homeland.Ostensibly to collect revenue and settle disputes amongst his subjects.But there was a hidden agenda. Having spent a whole year planning the extermination of his age-old enemies,he had procured a WMD.

Tambaram has since been witness to a genocide, the likes of which has not been seen since WW-II.

A high-level delegation has gone to the UN to lodge a strong complaint against him.Our noble Alfred has also been indulging in propogating use of this WMD among similar bloodthirsty tyrants elsewhere in the country. In the middle of these nefarious activities, he took time out and made an attempt at distracting attention by bringing to light the anti-national activities of Manjeet Singh Sidhu. It seems this incorrigible lambu had the temerity to climb a Himalyan peak way back in the eighties and forgot all about it. Just goes to show, never underestimate anything, even if it looks more than seven feet tall, moves as if it cannot disentangle the left foot from the right ,keeps posting messagees unpalatable to some and generally pretends to be the village idiot personified. Hats of to Sidhu praji, but Sirji, if u kindly only tone down your rhetoric a little, u will find many more fans here. Speaking of that, just remembered that there's yet another mountaineer in our midst. He even got a Sena Medal for it - Sanjay Anand. Kindly OWN UP, Sanjay and refresh our memories on this score. And of course HK Murali has found more than a lakh admirers of his song.

We all are at a stage like the last leg of the 10 mile. The Excellent and Good enclosures are already closed.

It is seen that Saxy has started the day as usual with Gita-Gyan.It's equally certain that by the end of the day he would be imparting some Gupt Gyan too.

Whatever anyone may say, ye Course ek nasha hai, that has matured like wine over the years.

The cup overfloweth.Enjoy it like Amrit or suffer it like Vish is upto you.

So, good tidings all over. Have a great week ahead, GeeeSheees.