Meherbai’s Mandli reads Parsi Times every week, from cover to cover chipi-chipi-ney and hold discussions on its various topics. A couple of weeks ago, they read a rather provocative article on why some women prefer dogs to men in the famous ‘Pet Puja’ column, and this is how the discussion went… PT Article: ‘A Study says that…
Meherbai’s Mandli reads Parsi Times every week, from cover to cover chipi-chipi-ney and hold discussions on its various topics. A couple of weeks ago, they read a rather provocative article on why some women prefer dogs to men in the famous ‘Pet Puja’ column, and this is how the discussion went… PT Article: ‘A Study says that…
In keeping with tradition, Meherbai’s Mandli met for their annual Mango-party at Meherbai’s house. As elections were in the air, everyone felt like saying something about it. Meherbai placed a huge bowl of chilled, diced mangoes and another of mango ice-cream, along with mango cheese cakes and milk-shakes for the Mandli. She loved feeding her…
The Mandli met at Meherbai’s house for a pre-Navroze celebration and the topic of the day was ‘Happiness and Positivity’. Meherbai asked everyone what made them happy and here’s how it went: Cowasji Casanova: If only I could get married and settle down, I’d be happy. Much-Married Minocher Moochchwala: If only I could divorce my…
The Mandli was recovering from the worst wedding reception of the season, given by a common friend, known to most of the members, where the guests had to stand in an overcrowded hotel lounge for a mile-long queue, first to bless the couple ( ie pay for your own meals) and later for the ice-cold…
With the Divali festivities behind them, Meherbai and her Mandli had a Chicken-Farcha-Pe-Charcha with cold coffees at the PVM Gymkhana. The subject under discussion was ‘Sasujis and Vahumais’! Meherbai: My Sasuji was extremely kind and loving and treated me like her own daughter. In fact, she pampered me and at times, she and I would gang-up…
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…