At their usual Chai-pe-Charcha session, this time at the US Club at Colaba, Meherbai’s Mandli drove the waiter crazy (so what’s new?) with each one ordering a different dish and different preferences ranging from “Don’t put salt!”, “Put more salt!”, “No Ajinomoto in the soup!”, ” Yes, more Ajinomoto!”, “Make it sweet!”, “No sugar please!”, […]
Meherbai’s Mandli met at the PVM Gymkhana for a chai-pe-charcha, usually referred to by their husbands as ‘Khotta-Kharcha’ – the usual, boring male point of view being – why spend on tea or coffee at Clubs, five-star hotels or expensive Coffee-Shops when you can easily make tea or coffee at home. The female point of […]
After an entire year (2016) of tea-parties, lunches, coffee-mornings in various clubs of Mumbai, from Colaba’s US Club to Bandra’s Otter’s Club, Meherbai and her group of ladies were exhausted. “Let’s be serious now. I mean really serious “ she said as they gathered in the last week of this year at the Wodehouse Gymkhana […]
Meherbai loved her hubby of 50 years very much and did her best to show her love on a daily basis. Theirs was a beautiful relationship wherein they gave each other gifts, red roses, perfumes and chocolates even if there was no occasion and specially if there was one! On New Year’s day, Meherbai cooked […]
Two weeks ago Shirin Merchant wrote a beautiful article in Parsi Times called ‘15 Ways To Show Your Dog Your Love’. Meherbai got an ‘aha-moment’, an inspiration, a revelation, a Eureka and phoned her entire group of friends that the next ‘Chai pe Charcha’ will be on ‘A Few Ways To Show Your Husband Your […]
Meherbai got up on the morning of her coffee-party lamenting: “Asal no Jamano Gayo. Once, money meant gold-coins, Sona-Mohar. Later we had silver-coins. I still remember how one rupee silver-coin fallen on the ground sounded like the one-rupee coin of ‘Sholay’ in Dolby-system – KHANNANG!! Su Vajan ne purchasing power!” Then came tamba-coins (copper-coins). After […]
From time to time, Meherbai used to have a tea-party with some of her school friends. Last Thursday, they met at the Parsi Gymkhana, Marine Lines, and the hen-party turned into a hilarious evening with every lady commenting on the recent US elections, especially why Tehmulji Trump won and why Coomi Clinton lost, adding their […]
And so it came to pass (sounds Biblical) that our dear Meherbai received an invitation to her old girls’ association from her school. The invite was for the ex-students along with their respective spouses. Meherbai was overjoyed while her bitter-half, Meherwanji said, “Your friends will die with envy when they see you. You have the […]
It was the month of May, hot as hell and all Meherbai’s friends were abroad on vacation. “Marerey! Sorabji Shakespeare was so right about the middle of May being hot and stuffy when he wrote ‘Beware The Ides Of May!’”, she said. “Arreyrey! What ‘Gotala Ma Goss’ you are doing! It is ‘Beware the Ides of March’.” “March […]