The music was pulsatingly inviting and when Andrew Carnegie asked me to do a quick twirl, I obliged. Only to have Jaaved Jaaferi tap him -- something that hasn't happened to me in yonks! It got me thinking how charming these thirty something men were to revive this lovely, yet quaint, dance manner of cutting in.

Djinns atthe Hyatt in Delhi was the pit stop on Sunday -- Arjun Mehra, Nisha, Bhola, Arjun's sister and husband and other friends made a friendly home-away-from-home group. The food was delectable from the hummus and chicken..... The cocktails lethal and the live band, the best toe-tapping, foot-stomping in India. Full marks to them. Work, work and more work for me took care of Monday, Tuesday. This week I am lying low as Krish is heading back to boarding school and I've got Mamma's Blue's -- Pre-Onam festivities included Dom, Caviar, Pate, Salmon lunch at the Sea Lounge, done in inimitable style by the gorgeous Sheetal Bhagat. Is she one of God's chosen ones? Good looks, class and style like our other soul sister, Czaee. We ate, drank, downed the shutters on some of our `lacking-in-finesse fraternity', planned the wedding shower and talked men and shop. Not bad for a lazy afternoon. Onam itself was vegetarian `sadya' on a banana leaf with flowers, lamps and all the traditional symbols of the harvest festival, tobring in peace and prosperity.

Sunday night, Aarti and Kailash Surendranath had a sushi evening. The sushi having just been flown in from Hong Kong. We ate, drank and jollied. Sushi, Saki, crudite and erudite company were my best pals for the evening of repast. The hosts Reena and Rajesh Shah, Riyad Wadia, Sanjeev Choudhury, Jackie, Ricky and Laila Lamba, Reena, Poonam, Sheetal and Atulya, Anju, Sonali Bendre, Rekha and more. So the week began with Suchi and ended with Sushi and Saki at Aarti's. Am sure King Mahabali would have approved? Anyway Happy Onam.