Kolkata snacks in Mumbai for the sisterhood of cat parents

I am an honorary member of what I call the sisterhood of cat parents.

We became cat parents the day Baby Loaf, the cat formerly known as Maharani, moved into our apartment. Then came cat son number two, mama’s boy, Naughty Little Nimki.

We came in touch with fellow cat parents in the vicinity through our cats and became pretty thick. They, like us, have adopted community/ rescue cats.

Two are our neighbours. We meet  regularly & our cats look forward to these visits as much as we do.

We connected with the other two in the group  during the lockdown through the community cats that we love. We would meet during our walks and their feeding runs. We would chat and exchange cat stories with our masks on. We were hungry for company, and we had in them the very best.

We don’t get to meet as a group that often now. So we made an impromptu plan & met at our place last evening (Sunday).

Baby Loaf & little Nimki played hosts. They suggested that we order Bengali snacks and convert the party into a Bijoya Sommiloni as it was just after Durga Puja, the time when friends and families get together to wish each other Shubh Bijoya over some lovely food.

We ordered in veg chops, potato tikkas, alu/chicken/ mutton rolls and prawn cutlets from The Calcutta Club’s Khar kitchen. For dessert we had mishti doi from Sweet Bengal.

The evening was filled with happy chatter… about our cats, our lives, at times with no specific subject. 

An adda, as we call it in Bengali. Our group consists of two Bengalis, two Goans, a Kannadiga and a Parsi…and two Bandra cats.

Baby Loaf was in his ‘lady killer’ mode with all the girls fawning over him.

His mummy daddy were in little Nimki’s corner to balance things out, as was his ‘big sis.’ The only one he allows to pick him. Not that she gives him much of a choice!

The first friends in Mumbai worked in market research and advertising agencies and livsd away from home.

My next set of friends were made through my blog and we connected through our shared love for food.

I have friends who are part of our Buddhist practise.

We have now made new friends thanks to our cats. In both the virtual & real world.

What about you? What connects you with your friends?

And Shubho Bijoya dear reader. I would be nothing without you