weekend parties . kamla raheja gold medal

first the all nighter saturday night at mukuls place where a small get together for ak/mj with tejas, nishesh, shweta, mukul, ranjit, sonal and me which we spent sitting in the balcony overlooking the borivili skyline drinking smooth heady irish cream made at home. in the morning we woke to tea in the same nook.

the kelwan for adheem, my baby cousin who is marrying sharon a girl from bandra was a sunday lunch at pramod mamas place. it is always a pleasure to meet sunita maushi who is here from himachal and looking as beautifu as ever. chaitra and her kid anoushka were there too and so were all the other cousins including chinmaya and anuja who showed us the powerpoint presentation they had made in honor of their mothers 50^th birthday. very cute.

i must say as an aside that i was most impressed with tony- sharons father who also came for a the party. adheem is so lucky to have a future father in law with a mohawk, a punk three column beard, a huge ear ring, gold chains on his chest and innumerable gold rings on all his fingers.

anand and me ran out of the madness for a good hour in the middle to hunt for tickets to see ‘omkara’. we needed 22 tickets and naturally only two or three were available in any of the theaters we went to. instead we sat with ak and had coffee at cac before joining in the general revelry again.

also on saturday the kamla raheja gold medal jury was held for the best thesis of last year. kalpit won the medal for his strange chemical mutations on falkland road thesis- well deserved, i thought. neha sabnis and namrata got citations. no real surprises here.