Shindigs. Aplenty. In stark contrast to the solemnity in the Temple later that evening. The allusion, dear reader, is to the journey to Jamshedpur on the 27^th of November to attend the Quarterly Communication under the banner of TISCO Lodge. A bus full of merry Masons, — twenty four, to be precise – sporting the District T shirts and caps. From RW the District Grand Master to young Abhineet, Initiated into the fraternity just a couple of months ago. The conviviality, another seamless four-hour session, was replicated on the return journey. The one dark spot was the nasty fall of Bro J. C. Lall, which resulted in partial  paralysis of his left leg and the resultant inability to attend the meeting. The gutsy man left the next day on a wheel chair, a sight bringing a lump in many a brother’s throat. The accident was later diagnosed to have been the result of a nervous disorder. The high points of the meeting were the handover of the Centenary Charter and the Ritual Competition Trophy, named after the late Bro Navzar Dotivala, to TISCO Lodge, whose hospitality lived up to the reputation that all the four outstation Lodges are known for.

It goes to the eminently deserved credit of GN – far too familiar by his initials than by the weighty designation of District Grand Secretary, — for having disinterred the Quarterly Communication, fallen in disuse latterly. The decision, again, in the main his idea, to hold the two Quarterlies and the  Half-yearly at the four mofussil Lodges will go a long way in fostering the bonds among the brethren spread across the eighteen Lodges. Such was the success of the trip that the proposed trip to Kanpur on the 26^th of February next year for the Half-yearly  has evoked a not-insignificant enthusiasm.