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Thanks for reviving old Bombay

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Gayatri Jayaraman
Gayatri JayaramanSep 01, 2015 | 11:21

Thanks for reviving old Bombay

Not since the wild Pradeep Guha parties of the turn of the century, when Bombay was still Bombay, has the old band of page 3 brethren reunited with such fervour. Phone calls buzzing across the south, from farmhouses in Alibaug to villas in Panchgani and resorts off the coast of Italy. It starts with have you heard about ‘Peter and Indrani’ but how long can you sustain a conversation with an old friend on gossip? Well, if it’s a good friend forever actually, but eventually it meanders into what you’ve been upto and how the children are, and where business is going, ‘do you remember when...?’ , where good ol Asit Chandmal is now, nobody’s seen him for a while, where Yash Khanna is now, what wine the teetotaller Ambanis ordered for their last do and what a waste and how all the big wine buying has gone underground, and are you still cheating on your wife, and if so, could you give me some tips on covering it up, whether you do enough yoga to alleviate the stress you are giving her, and sums up with how our own homegrown white collar criminals, philanderers, sex change operation opters and resident divorce settlement scamsters and inheritance grabbers are, in comparison, just the lovable rogues we have grown to accept and embrace. “Well, at least they’re not cold blooded killers”. “Allegedly” someone on the con call will say. The phone calls all end with engagements for luncheon, brunch (let’s revive poor ol’ Akerkar’s digs, such a beating they’ve taken with all the young new entrants) farmhousing, and tea with Simi Garewal, come with your pinky finger raised. Beneath the city they’re building over our remains, an old Bombay still lives. Thanks Indrani, for excavating it.

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