Mumbai Diary: Wednesday Dossier

Murky Milky Way
If you've been following MasterChef Australia's Season 8, you might have seen the episode that featured part of Heston Blumenthal week where contestants had to prepare a dessert themed around outer space for diners on the revolving Melbourne Star.

The Big Bang Theory at Joss

Participants Harry Foster and Chloe Bowles chose to make a chocolate half-dome containing mousse that the guests that had to smash on their plates. They called it the The Big Bang. The interactive dessert won the judges' vote too. While the participant duo said that the dessert was inspired by Anna's Mess (a part of a previous pressure test), it's uncannily similar to The Big Bang Theory offered at Joss in Santacruz and Umame, Churchgate.

Farrokh Khambata

Or so, thinks restaurateur Farrokh Khambata. "I didn't see the episode but a couple of friends and clients called me to say that a contestant made a dessert called The Big Bang Theory and was inspired by the dessert we invented two years ago for the opening of Joss. I would have been happy if they had given me a mention as the creator," he rued.

And the award goes too...
Recently, the National Tourism awards were announced, and the home state drew a blank. Surprised? We aren't. Going by the lackadaisical attitude of Maharashtra's tourism department since we can remember, it's a no-brainer.

Madhya Pradesh and Kerala topped the list across categories. MP ran away with awards in what we felt were interesting categories - Best Heritage Walk (Bhopal, joint winners with Old Delhi), and Best Maintained and Disabled Friendly Monument (monuments of Amarkantak).

The lone consolation was Mumbai's CSIA that won Best Airport. We wonder if the no-show will serve as a wake-up call for our babus or if they will continue to relax on their armchairs while enjoying the rains.

Olympic emojis
With Rio Olympics within touching distance, Twitter has unveiled over 200 emojis to add a fun touch to the Games. These emojis show up each time a related hashtag is used in a tweet.

So, using #Gold, #Silver and #Bronze in tweets brings out tiny graphics of the respective medals. Users will also be able to use emojis of sports when they use related hashtags for reference. So, if you use #Archery, it will show an archer in a tiny blue emoji. There are also emojis for hashtags like #Athletics, #Badminton, #Tennis, #hockey that we are sure to be in demand.

There's more. Aneesh Madani, Head of Sports Partnerships, Twitter India says that users can change their profile pictures to show support for Team India at the Olympics, "You can Tweet to @IndiaSports with #KheloIndia and follow instructions to change your profile picture." Get, set, Rio!

Lovers' ink
Even though popular Bollywood celebs endorse it, getting a tattoo of your lover's name, seems passe.

This diarist received an email about the new ‘it-thing' - a break-up tattoo. Promoting two tattoo artistes, the email said, "Break-up tattoos are not related to words like mourning, grief, loss or melancholy.

They mark a new beginning, can be symbolic of a rebirth and also signify the beauty in the change!" What if you decide to patch up after cooling off time? Worth the cycle of pain?

A jhalak before the lights come on

Pic/Satej Shinde

Judges Jacqueline Fernandez and Karan Johar ready for the cameras on the sets of a reality dance show at Film City, Goregaon, last evening.

A book about The Greatest
Pulitzer prize nominee and William Hill award-winning writer Thomas Hauser has penned a tribute to Muhammad Ali.

Expected to be an insightful account of one of the greatest sporting icons to have walked the planet, the book is a companion volume to his seminal biography of Ali, New York Times' bestselling author, Hauser provides an updated retrospective of Ali's life.

Relying on personal accounts, interviews with associates and contemporaries, and memories gathered over decades of boxing journalism, Hauser explores Ali inside and outside the ring. A page-turner, this promises to be.