The Secret Society



Introducing to one and all, the members of The Secret Society - a bevy of book-loving beautiful people that have been a shot in the arm and the wind in my sails as I explore new horizons. 

KrushiFTW
A voracious bookworm with unfettered love for technology enabling and proliferating agriculture and Gabriel "Gabo" Garcia Marquez. Been the sous-chef to his MasterChef, I'd be the sous-anything to his master-anything. Instills warm badey bhaiyya feels to the bone. 

BehenGogh 
Warmth personified with a disarming smile. Her viewpoints are always measured, balanced, and crafted with care for everyone involved. Aaand from what I've heard and am yet to see (massive FOMO) a mind-bogglingly brilliant painter. Never had an elder sister, happy to have one in her now. 

AccountaBelle
To-do lists, polls, blurbs, summaries, snippets, notes - the undisputed queen of organised thoughts within the group, capable of putting Rita Mulcahy to shame. Beneath the structured exterior lies a creative spirit with an awesome sense of humour. 

PapaPunchy
Oil and gas veteran, master of words, there isn't a book this man hasn't read. A connoisseur of leisure and fine spirits, an avid birder and the youngest heart of the lot, I am deliberately irreverant and love locking witty horns with him because I am superfond of him and admire him - a true role model. NOTE - the Punchy is an ode to his witty punches and his love for the panchis. 

BrevityBro
His superpower - active listening while everyone speaks and jibber jabbers. And when he speaks - so crisp, concise and to the point, you cannot not listen to him. 

HRExcellence
HR specialist, wine aficionado, Telugu movie buff with a very characteristic laugh. Easygoing and super chill to be around. 

EnthuMaatha
The OG, the One and Only, the Queen Bee. 
Our existence - due credit is to thee. 
Your enthusiasm and exuberance knows no bounds. 
Tis always bacchanalia while EnthuMaatha's doing the rounds. 

Pure, unadulterated, pristine enthu and fun. Bundle of ideas. Dhaakad dakhni ki dukaan. Amazing. Period. Mic drop. 

AmchaFührer
The Pune-boy German language expert with an unmistakable boyish charm and a méchant twinkle in his eye when he smiles. As he slips into his spiritual soliloquies, we watch enamored as he strings words and stories together like beads. My French professor once told me - before Hitler and his antics messed up the meaning of the word, Führer actually meant someone who guides you. Alors, AmchaFührer - our guide, our spiritual storyteller. 

Bhandaphod 
A welcoming ear-to-ear smile that would shame a cheshire cat. Never-fazed, ever-optimistic, an omnivorous appetite for good content (reading, listening, watching et al), a highly competitive sportsperson and someone whose quirky observations and even quirkier anecdotes about her frontiersman hubby leaves me perpetually in splits. My tennis mentor and billiards partner, Bhandaphod - her quirky reference for cracking the rack - is well and truly an absolute crack of a person. 

IWillFixYou
I remember watching somewhere about how people like Michael Jordan, who are driven by their passion, exude a palpable and tangible aura. IWillFixYou's aura, her pores, her living breath too (I'm only guessing) exudes her passion for psychotherapy. When she speaks about psychotherapy I automatically picture Natalie Portman in the Black Swan - regal, poised and perfect. And her guffaw - that's the kind of potent, full-bodied stuff that inspired LOL and ROTFLMAO. 

SupahFly 
Bud ! Buddy ! Bro ! Bruh ! Broheim ! - this is how we address each other, I was instantly at ease with him from the first time we met. A graphic novelist, seeing his work for the first time made my jaw hit the floor in wonderment and simultaneously made me feel utterly worthless - THAT kind of skill and finesse is beyond reach. A man of few words with a killer taste in music, his observations are deeply astute and zara hatke. An out and out uber cool specimen, he's not just fly he's SupahFly, borrowing from one of the characters he adores - Superman. 

The Secret Society. A godsend. 

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