What does one make of it? Nothing. Because there are hundreds of other mumineen. Because he must have been telling someone else. Because I wasn’t near him at all. And then he turned, our eyes met for just a moment and he acknowledged…with his brow and lift of the eye. And then it struck me … my bhabhi Sugra was landing in Bombay from Colombo that day!

 

A few questions here: How did Moulana know that my bhabhi – of all persons - was coming from Colombo? Even

if somebody told him, how did he remember? Even if he did remember, how could he connect it to someone

standing almost anonymously in the thick crowd? Even if he could connect it, how did he remember just at that

point when there were hundreds demanding his attention?

Such was the man!