Remember the days when friends, families and neighbours would gather after meals, huddle over a dusty board game and embark on a night of intense revelry? Yes, we miss that time too. While the city’s nightlife culture might have replaced those golden days of fun, you will be quite amiss to think that the passion of playing board games has died as well. For one, Borivli resident and board game enthusiast Gaurav Ganesh Jhawar’s session, The Settlers and Suppers of Catan not only intends to take you through the engrossing landscape of Catan (formerly Settlers of Catan), a board game based on the trade dynamics of medieval times but also treat you to a menu especially curated on the game’s elements.

“It is a way for me to combine two things I love the most — board games and hosting people. Whenever we talk about board games it is either something very nerdy like Dungeons and Dragons or something basic like Snake and Ladder. I wanted to show how there is a whole spectrum of easy-to-play, medium strategy games that can be an invigorating alternative to the usual weekend party scenes,” the 29-year-old explains.