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November 1941
FILMINDIA
In .'Jhoola", the new social picture of Bomhay Talkies, Leela Chitnis returns to her rightful place.
land its own. These ports belong to Europe, to civilisation...."
AND THE YANKEES REPLY
Here is the crushing retort given by the American Saturday Evening Post in an editorial: "If four million Irishmen have no rights that forty million Englishmen are bound to respect, what rights have forty million Englishman that eighty million Germans are bound to respect? If the day is gone when people may call their land their own, what is England defending and what is the war about? Thirdly, if this is liberal ethic and liberal thinking, then liberalism of this cult, as we have suspected before, is morally and intellectually bankrupt."
No further comments required from me, with India's 400 millions waiting for freedom.
THE RE-CREATION CLUB
Now back to the Chit-Chat Club of India and more specimens from that museum of oddities, where shameless snobbery drinks, dines and dances under the shadow of the bat, balls and bails.
Before I present you for inspection this month's exhibits, let me tell you something about the peculiarity of this establishment, so that you may the better understand why
so queer and conglomerate a collection of Bombay's society bugs gather there.
According to its registration certificate the establishment is supposed to be a club for recreation purposes. If it has digressed into an asylum for re-creation pursuits it is no fault of the certificate. And if the walls are not padded it is no fault of the members, as I believe
they ran short of princes to finance this all-important fixtui'e. Anyhow, the necessity is not much felt as most people there are of the fat head quality and run very little chances of damaging their occipita.
ITS UNIQUE QUALITIES
It is not easy to become a member of this outfit as one has got to be something out of the ordinary to join the happy fold, which is almost a family affair like any present day Parsi journal. If you happen to have a wife or any other temporary or permanent female fixture she is accepted with open arms and you are presented with a chota peg. If you happen to be a member of His Majesty's Fighting Forces, whether you actually fight or not, you are eligible for temporary membership and can show a clean pair of heels when the bill collector calls for the settlement of outstandings .... that stand out too damn vividly for the safety of your shore allowance.
In this happy gathering a virgin is strictly a drink composed of vermouth and gin, and a pansy not always a flower. The sportsmen are of the tally-ho type and the foxes generally perfumed. The waiters look like naval officers and the naval guys return the compliment with more realism. There is a bar barred
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