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Munish Gone--10th March 2006
Heavenly fathers Club

In the middle of the Theatre Festival
three of us found a way to sneak out
for an ice-cream every afternoon
cake fudge most of the days
except when it was pritham's turn
then tho.. we had to eat bright pink and orange
horror concoctions.

one day in woody's munish suddenly says
'three of us have one thing in common,"
pritham and i look up and wait....
and after a brief pause,... he says
"all our three fathers are up."

quite startled.. we just stare for 3 seconds and then burst out laughing
we laugh and laugh and laugh endlessly... we kind of formed a club
lunches, dinners, plays, movies, coffee, even shopping.. crib sessions endlessly
and now film star to be has gone off

once he and i were sitting in k and meghna joins us,
he says something stupid and meghna says, "don't your parents mind?"
he says, mom doesn't and dad is dead and up.
meghna is a bit stunned and doesnt' know what to say
she looks at me.. and he says, "don't look at her,
her father is also dead and up.. with my father..and
in case you don't know... pritham's father is also up
and atul's father, and sheeba's father as well... i crack up and start
laughing. Meghna walks off... says we are disgusting .

The last message he sent me at 1.30 last night said
"if not for our fathers, our friendship would not have blossomed."
crazy kat, mild cassanova, stupid goonk, mad punju, but truly smart..
though the tried hard to pretend not to be...
munish sharma. soon to be event manager, then television star, and then movie star