15 January,2022 07:18 AM IST | Mumbai | Team mid-day
Pic/Atul Kamble
Residents of Wadala celebrate Pongal by stirring up pots of the traditional sweet
On Thursday, illustrator Siddhesh Gautam, better known by his Instagram moniker Bakery Prasad, shared an artwork to draw attention to the death anniversary of Baba Tilka Manjhi, one of India's first freedom fighters. Born in a Santhal family, Manjhi fought against the British rule almost a century before the revolt of 1857.
He led a long revolt of the tribals against the British from 1771 to 1784 and in 1778 wrested the Ramgarh Camp from them by forging a joint front with Pahadia Sardars, Prasad shared: "He was never given his due place in history I wonder if it is because his surname isn't influential enough? It's time we document the work and ideologies of our leaders who have been forgotten from popular culture and erased from our history books."
The famous food chain, Goila Butter Chicken (GBC), recently launched its first brick-and-mortar store in the United Kingdom's Fitzrovia. Of the 12-seater restaurant at 23, Charlotte street, London, chef Saransh Goila said, "We went ahead with it although the pandemic makes things seem uncertain.
The store will offer a slightly offbeat GBC experience since we have also taken local preferences into account. The menu, therefore, has a GBC burger, which is served in a cumin brioche bun. This is a special offering for the city of London."
Ranjit Hoskote and Maria Aurora Couto
Friday began on a sombre note with the passing of writer and educationist Maria Aurora Couto. Curator and poet Ranjit Hoskote, who shared the news on Twitter, described Couto as a thinker who perfectly straddled academics and everyday life. "I grew up hearing about Maria because she and my mother had been friends in college. When I finally met her, it was incredible - she was a fine and nuanced thinker. The coming together of dissimilar energies and the need to respect differences while looking for common ground were very important to her. This was why she had a lifelong engagement with Goa, despite growing up in Dharwad. For her, Goa was an example of how cultural differences can be bridged despite a difficult history. As a cultural historian, it's marvellous how adeptly she combined an attentiveness to documentary archives, fieldwork and oral history, creating a beautiful tapestry of the three," he recalled.
Break The Wall is an e-summit organised by Mash Project Foundation, as a platform for key voices in the sexual reproductive health and rights ecosystem. Nu, founder of Revival Disability Community, will be presenting an overview of disability-affirmative sexual wellness at the summit. "We're building an archive of disabled narratives and an essential how-to on disability and queerness. I want to document these because I never had that growing up physically disabled," they said. To learn more, visit @mash_project on Instagram.
Monica Dogra
When Adele released her latest album, 30, in November 2021, it became the highest-selling record of the year within days. Now, she has released a video for Oh my God, one of the songs from it, which was recorded in an empty space with sparse furniture and a bunch of dancers capturing the emotions in the words.
A still from Adele's music video featuring Gajjar
One of them, Reshma Gajjar, happens to be a Los Angeles-based performer who is of Indian descent. Gajjar, incidentally, has also appeared in multiple videos for Mumbai artiste Monica Dogra's music. But being a part of one of the world's biggest musicians is a whole different league. "What a dream," she shared. We are sure it is.
