The city - sliced, diced and served with a dash of sauce
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Up in the air
The evening sun sets over youngsters enjoying the outdoors and pleasant weather at Juhu Beach.
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In the name of love
How far can you go for love?” asks Jalpa Vithalani of the Marine Lines-based Cosmic Heart Gallery. The question is often asked, but left unanswered. As the gallery completes eight years since it opened its doors to Mumbaikars, it brings a special audio-visual virtual exhibition that translates the messages of life and love captured in the documentary-A Million Steps for Love-by Sandra Korse. Korse, a documentary filmmaker, captures the journey of 14 women to Jerusalem and celebrates the power of sisterhood in the film. Speaking to this diarist, Vithalani, curator of the exhibition, says, “It [eight years of the venue] has been a journey that has made us inch closer to our vision of a world without borders. Our expression of art, culture, music, frequencies and togetherness has only one thought in mind, to be able to reach people and bring a positive change in their lives. And so, we are delighted to present this latest project. We have translated the film into a unique audio visual exhibition, that can be viewed virtually on our website [cosmicheartgallery.info].”
The third Gandhy generation
It’s been a little over a year since gallerist Shireen Gandhy’s daughter Atyaan Jungalwala joined the team at Chemould Prescott Gallery. “She is an interior designer and was working on our Bandra home and would often come to the gallery. Since we were working together on the project, it became a natural drift.” Jungalwala jumped into the thick of things by helping the gallery work through a new software. But, before you worry, Gandhy specifies, that there is no rush for Jungalwala to take over. “There’s a long way to go before I retire.”
Small group, big heart
When restaurateur Marzy Parakh launched Live To Give, a WhatsApp group that encourages users to donate to the source directly, little did he imagine that he’d receive international recognition for it. Parakh has been felicitated with the Mother Teresa Award for Social Justice 2020. Previous recipients include Kailash Satyarthi, Malala Yousufzai and Leyla Talo, an ISIS sex slave survivor. It’s the only award endorsed by Sister Prema, the Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity, the organisation started by Mother Teresa. “Watching thousands of individuals fund ration needs and hospital bills selflessly for disadvantaged strangers, is a reassurance of the fact that technology and social media can play a phenomenal role in determining the greater good of mankind. It is only a matter of choice whether you wish to use it to share spam or to relieve the world from its suffering,” says Parakh.
Krishnayan makes an English debut
When writer-orator-actor Kaajal Oza Vaidya first penned Krishnayan in Gujarati in 2006, she had no idea how successful her book was to become. The book, which stitched together a compelling portrait of Lord Krishna’s final moments, while exploring his relationship with four women, Rukmini, Draupadi, Satyabhama, and Radha, went on to become the biggest bestseller of all times in Gujarati literature. Till date, it has sold over 2,00,000 copies and has gone into more than 28 editions. Vaidya’s mythological work is now being translated into English by Subha Pande for Eka Westland, and will release later this month. “I had always wanted Krishnayan to be translated into English, and now with Subha’s wonderful translation, the dream has finally come true. I am hoping this book will reach non-Gujarati readers, who have been curious about the book,” says Vaidya, whose other works include Yog-Viyog (2007), Draupadi (2011), Madhyabindu (2007) and Maun Raag (2007). “In the book, the women ask Krishna questions that they otherwise, couldn’t. Here, we get to see Krishna as a human being with flaws.”
Pistol and Blocker at both ends
Umpires Paul Reiffel (left), Paul Wilson and Claire Polosak (right) inspect the field after rain affected Day One of the third cricket Test match between Australia and India at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Thursday. Pic/Getty Images
The ongoing India v Australia Test at Sydney has two former Aussie Test fast bowlers standing as umpires. If this is rare, there are other aspects in the involvement of messrs Reiffel and Wilson which make for interesting trivia. Both Pauls made their Test debuts against India -Reiffel at Perth in 1991-92 -and Wilson at Kolkata in 1998. Both are often greeted by their nicknames, Pistol and Blocker. Reiffel would be proud of his instrumental role in Australia’s historic 1995 triumph in the West Indies but he will also recall how he was on the field at the Adelaide Oval even before his 1992 Test debut at Perth. Emerging from the showers later than his teammates, 12th man Reiffel was taking his time to get changed when captain Allan Border asked him to get on the field soon. When the Victoria pacer asked why, Border punctuated his ‘because-I-said-so’ utterance with an expletive. Border stayed back in the dressing room because he wanted to get on the phone with one of the selectors who had dropped his vice-captain Geoff Marsh for the next Test. The decision wasn’t reversed and Marsh didn’t play Test cricket again.
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