A Sunday well spent

Finally it was a Sunday well spent. I managed to push myself and go for a meeting of the Bombay Quiz Club. Needless to say got walloped by the other quizzards there but it felt so nice to be among people who believe there is a world beyond their jobs. It felt nice to be among people who were so well read and generally knowledgable about so many things including needless trivia. To be a good quizzard you need to be not just well read but also observant, have a good memory and most important of all be intelligent enough to work out the correct answers from whatever he knows.
After dropping off a friend at the airport went to Bandra fort to listen to Shubha Mudgal sing patriotic songs, composed by tawaeifs etc. that have got lost in the course of time. Two of her renditions were brilliant to say the least. The first was "Khub ladi mardani jhansi wali rani thi" and the other was the timeless classic "vaishnava jana ko". I had driven two hours through painful traffic but her voice made everything worth it.
After a quiet dinner at a friend's place where her mother had made Bengali delicacies I retired tired satisfied and well fed after a Sunday well spent.