10 October,2021 07:16 AM IST | Mumbai | Team mid-day
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A child performs a tricky acrobatic act on a street in Matunga.
Greg Chappell during his stint as India coach in 2005. Pic/AFP
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Our in-house cricket nut is informed about a new book by former Australia captain and India coach Greg Chappell. "Greg Chappell: Not Out AUD 35.00 (Discusses Australia's favourite sport from all angles, including his time as coach in India, scandals - notably ball tampering, mental skills, his experience as a selector and talent scout and Australia's cricket future. Hard-back; 288 pages)," is what his overseas bookseller has included towards the end of his catalogue under Some Forthcoming Publications. An online book merchant says this book is set to release in Australia on October 27. Looks like this book, even though Chappell wrote about his controversial India coaching stint (2005-2007) in Fierce Focus, may create a storm in this part of the world. Our cricket fan can't wait to get his hands on a copy and he's also in the mood to boast about possessing almost all books written by Chappell, namely Successful Cricket, The 100th Summer, Unders and Overs, Greg Chappell by Adrian McGregor, The Making of Champions and of course, Fierce Focus. Watch this space for some spice courtesy Gregory Stephen Chappell.
Celebrity chef Shantanu Gupte, who has worked at some of the best restaurants, including Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai and some of Gordon Ramsay's restaurants, has conceptualised and executed a new cafe at Bandra called the Bandstand Pantry. The upcoming space will offer healthy eats and specialty coffee and cold brew. A source tells us that it's being designed to resemble a New York-style cafe set on the seafront and will launch around Diwali.
Collecting over 1,000 kg of unused medicines to help 1,00,000 COVID-19 patients across India, a doctor couple from Mumbai, Dr Marcus Ranney and Dr Raina Ranney, have now turned their efforts towards helping people living across the African continent. (The duo runs MedsForMore, a national citizen-led initiative to collect and redistribute COVID-19 relief medications). This time though, rather than focusing on medicines, the doctors will be working towards ensuring equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines for the citizens of Africa. "We will not win the fight against this disease until every single person on this planet is protected against this virus," said Dr Marcus, a global health expert and wellbeing champion. "My experiences at the front-lines have taught me just how critical a global vaccination strategy is and how we must ensure that it reaches every person across the world, not just the nations that can afford them." They will raise awareness about this mission to a global audience via an expedition to the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro.
Manov Bhowmick and Aruna Jade
The Indie music scene in India took a huge beating during the successive lockdowns over the last year-and-a-half. Despite the lack of support or aid, most musicians have remained resilient and continued making music. A new single, Make It Happen, by Cynefin Rush, a Mumbai-based electro-pop-ambient duo (Manov Bhowmick aka Maanov and Aruna Jade) pays tribute to their indomitable spirit. The video that will release simultaneously shows how the community continued working, practising, playing gigs online, teaching, and learning, despite their own personal struggles. "Both of us felt that this is an important story to put out there. We believe if we don't own our narrative then someone else might, with a detrimental effect on the Indian music community and industry. We are currently seeing an assertive attitude in the community where many individuals are stepping up, offering much-needed value that the legacy institutions and businesses just did not feel incentivised to even explore," says Aruna. Maanov adds that it's been most "tough trying to strike a balance between your own musical pursuits, business and commercial work because that's what actually pays the bills. To survive, we have had to evolve into music-preneurs of sorts."
Mixed medium artist Amol K Patil will participate in contemporary art exhibition documenta fifteen in Kassel, Germany, in 2022. "I am expanding my research on the construct of urbanisation and the invisibility of the working class in emergent urban imaginaries. My project is to build counter-memory and contesting narratives that describe and disturb the relationship between humans and landscapes," says Patil, whose work has aimed to recapture the pulsating movements and sound of chawl architecture.
His theatre activist father's recordings of immigrant dialects for his avant-garde scripts on the dilemma of migrant life in the city, and poet grandfather's handwritten songs rooted in a protest tradition called powada dating back to the 17th century, have been prominent influences on Patil's work. The artist wishes to use this new opportunity to represent his legacy to a wider audience.
