The city - sliced, diced and served with a dash of sauce
Pic/Rane Ashish
Feeling high
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People enjoy the vistas of Mumbai from Bandra Fort on Thursday.
LA-bound
Mumbai-based artist Akshita Gandhi will display her lightbox artwork at The Hourglass Overturned, an all-female exhibition at Los Angeles-based Arushi Gallery. She joins seven other global female artists who will also be exhibiting their work. Commenting on her piece, Gandhi said, “Spirituality and its symbolism re-occur in my work; Gaia is a painting and light box that pictures an angel’s wings over Horniman Circle. It captures the complex relationship between spirituality, journeying and belonging.” She added that the exhibition is an attempt to nurture female voices in the traditionally male-dominated arts world. The exhibition will be held until November 15. To learn more, visit @arushigallery on Instagram.
Painting a better future in Bandra
A wall next to the MTNL building in Bandra Reclamation has now got a spanking new facelift that promotes a good cause as well. The Bollywood Art Project group has painted a mural there that highlights the importance of waste segregation and protecting the environment. “There is a Swachhata Kendra in Bandra who approached me with the design that I executed. It tells the story about how waste is segregated and then recycled, and how that helps the environment,” shared BAP founder Ranjit Dahiya, who’s known for painting murals of Bollywood actors on walls around the city.
Buttering up
Pritam is a restaurant in Dadar that is credited with introducing the North Indian favourite of butter chicken to Mumbai in the 1950s. On World Butter Chicken Day (October 20), they reintroduced an age-old variant of the dish, Purani Dilli murg shaan-au-shaukat, which will give Mumbaikars an authentic taste of what the dish tastes like in Delhi.
“This is us paying homage to our roots,” shared Jaibir Singh Kohli, the grandson of Kushwant Singh Kohli (in pic), the man who first introduced the dish to the city.
Tuning back to normalcy
Live gigs are gradually making a comeback in the city, after the pandemic had hit the brakes on them. Last weekend, there was the band Many Roots Ensemble that played a spanking gig at a Bandra venue, and now, an international star of Indian origin will take the stage at a BKC space. Rapper Raja Kumari is an artiste based in the US who has collaborated with both global superstars like Iggy Azalea and local talent like Divine. “India gives me a lot of strength because people are so receptive to my music,” is what she has to say about performing in the country. But it’s not just her gig at Maker Maxity in BKC on Saturday that is a sign of how things are inching back to normal in the city’s live music space. There is another rapper, Hanumankind, who will play a gig on the same night at Lower Parel’s AntiSocial. All this, frankly, sounds like music to our ears.
A sign of concern at Powai Lake
A group of concerned citizens have recently started a signature campaign to raise concerns about the cycling track (in pic) being built around Powai Lake, which threatens to eat into the natural habitat there. They, like other organisations including Muse Foundation, fear that it will infringe upon the crocodile and soft-shell turtle population there, as well as leopards. “Leopards have been spotted right behind Powai Lake, which is still quite pristine. Preserving this area will benefit the citizens of Mumbai in many ways, and by citizens I don’t just mean people who have PAN cards and voter identity cards. The term also extends to animals like leopards; aren’t they citizens as well?” asked Sushant Bali, one of the Mumbaikars behind this campaign.
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