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Delna's Mistress seduces London
Delna Poonawalla made quite a splash at the London Fashion Week with her collection, Dark Mistress, managing to woo the high-rollers of the English fashion circuit.
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Applauding was the crème of London's swish set. And thanks to Delna's lineage, her show also saw footfall from London's equestrian community, with British Polo Day founder Ed Olver gracing the guest list. Also seen were Parsi industrialist duo Behram and Bakhtawar Dubash and Indian artist Udairaj Gadnis. The British media, too, gave the clothes a thumbs up. "It now all seems worth it," gushed Delna.
What would Gandhi say today?
The Mahatma never stops being a muse, it seems. This diarist got news that a new film eulogising the Gandhian way of life will be released on January 30, 2017, the death anniversary of the Mahatma. The film, Welcome Back Gandhi, asks what would happen if the Mahatma were to provide idealistic solutions to today's pressing issues.
It stars S Kanagaraj as Gandhi, along with Anupam Kher. According to director A Balakrishnan, the film had been in the pipeline since 2014, but was not released. "We were looking for a distributor, but it was not easy to find one." Let's wait and watch if it will be easy to find an audience.
When Shirley Bassey was not on song at the MCG
OBITUARIES are not fun to do especially when the subject is a mate of yours, like Australian fast bowler Max Walker was to Test spinner turned writer Ashley Mallett. But the yarns that spice up the obit can throw you into a fit of laughter.
Shirley Bassey
Mallett, an occasional columnist for the newspaper, recently wrote a touching tribute to the departed Walker for ESPN Cricinfo in which he recalled Walker laughing his guts out when he noticed Welsh singer Shirley Bassey of Diamonds are Forever fame, in the Australian team's dressing room in 1975, exclaiming to some of the Aussies, "Glad to see you chaps are winning."
According to Mallett, the person accompanying Bassey, said to her, "Ma'am I don't think we are in the England dressing room." Australia under Ian Chappell had in fact lost that particular Test match, the one defeat as against four wins, so Bassey was, in a way, out of tune.
What caused Bassey to be at the Melbourne Cricket Ground that day, we don't know, but she did have an affair with an Australian actor, Peter Finch. That was a decade earlier to that Test though.
Google makes space for CSMVS exhibits
As Wildlife Week kicks in today, two exhibits curated by the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sanghrahalaya can now be viewed online, thanks to a new partnership between Google Arts & Culture and the museum. The exhibits are called 'Fauna of India Subcontinent' and 'Animal in Indian Art'.
Sabyasachi Mukherjee, director, CSMVS, said, "We are happy that Google Arts & Culture will be showing select natural history specimen from our museum. Along with this, they will also present some depictions of animal art from the museum repository. This is a rare opportunity for us to reach out to the world community."
Lost in plagiarism
Art plagiarism is not a stranger to our world. Noted graphic designer Neil Dantas, most known for his Mumbai-themed tees, has been at the receiving end one time too many. Dantas recently took to social media, when he found PosterGully, one of India's largest curated marketplaces for art, had used his artwork on its official poster to announce a new social media competition.
Neil Dantas
What infuriated Dantas was that it had been incorrectly attributed to one Bhaumik Mistry. When brought to their notice, PosterGully got the poster off its page. "All I get is an apology," he says. Art world, please note, great art should get its due.
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