05 January,2022 07:10 AM IST | Mumbai | Team mid-day
Pic/Anurag Ahire
A child dons an apt fancy dress signalling the present times, at Andheri West on Tuesday
For many Mumbaikars, and frequent visitors to the city, memories of Colaba are laced with the spicy, mouth-watering aroma of Bademiya's kebabs, and the perpetual queue to get one's hands on them. In a city that's constantly changing, the kebab joint established in 1946 by Mohammad Yaseen, fondly called Bademiya, has remained a landmark attraction - the serpentine queues getting longer every year. After Colaba and Fort, the iconic restaurant has now crossed the Sea Link to set up shop in the queen of suburbs, Bandra, opposite Amarsons Collection on Linking Road. The space (in pic), which opened its doors on January 1, can accommodate 120 covers and is spread across two floors, Mudassir Shaikh, the founder's grandson, told us. He added that the Bandra outpost is inspired by an ever-expanding fan base in the suburbs of Bandra, Andheri, Juhu and Jogeshwari. "We also have an outdoor, al-fresco section. The menu is a mix of old favourites and new additions. At the Bandra outlet, we are serving up some exclusive dishes such as mutton rogan josh, dal gosht, mutton korma and murgh mussallam, among others, which aren't served in our SoBo outlet," he revealed.
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances.
(From left) A dated photo from 2015 of Burjor Patel with his wife, Ruby, and daughter Shernaz at Kitabkhana. Pic/Bipin Kokate
So go the lines by William Shakespeare from As You Like It. Burjor Patel who strode the English-Gujarati-Parsi theatre world like a colossus exited, taking his last bow from the world on Tuesday. Raell Padamsee, creative director and producer of Ace Productions said, "Burjor Patel was an institution. I remember meeting both Burjor and his late wife Ruby, a few years ago at a Navjote at the Colaba Agiary. They were quite inseparable. They also worked together and were still so very much in love. They epitomised the perfect partnership at home and at work." The couple had worked together in several theatre productions till the 1960s. For theatre personality Dolly Thakore, Burjor Patel was, "an integral part of my life. His late wife Ruby and he dominated the theatre world. Bottoms Up and Grandson of Bottoms Up changed theatre in Mumbai." Thakore considered it a "privilege to share the stage with them. That was an unforgettable era." When the final curtain falls, the applause of the people you have touched in life continues to resonate. They are clapping loud and long for Burjor Patel.
With COVID-19 cases on the rise again due to the Omicron variant, many people are again stuck at home after testing positive for the virus, quarantining till they get better. When the pandemic first surfaced in 2020, there were many culinary ventures that started providing balanced and nutritious meals to such people. Now, Kanak by Sherry, a city-based eatery started by Sherry Mehta, is doing the same again in 2022. They are delivering vegetarian and non-vegetarian thalis (in pic) to patients across Mumbai, and Suprio Bose, who's partnering Mehta in the venture, shared that the idea stemmed from the fact that more often than not, infected people can't cook for themselves. "We thus give them an option that is healthy, but not boring. We speak to the patients to curate meals according to their requirements, and make home-cooked food with relatively fewer spices," he said. Those interested can call Mehta on 9920622379 to get their meals delivered.
Yesterday marked the 90th year of a historic event that took place at Mani Bhavan (in pic), the museum in Gamdevi that's dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi. That's the day in 1932 that Gandhi was arrested from there for sowing the seeds of a civil disobedience movement. Recounting the events of the day, Mani Bhavan trustee and honorary secretary Yogesh Kamdar told this diarist that the Mahatma had been sleeping on the tank on the terrace of the building when he was taken into custody early in the morning.
"He'd been a guest of Revashankar Jhaveri, whose family owned the building at the time," Kamdar shared, adding that an Indian officer named Wilson arrested Gandhi. Kamdar added that around 10 years ago, Wilson's grandson visited the museum and gifted it the policemen's diary, in which Wilson had detailed the proceedings of that fateful day.
