The city - sliced, diced and served with a dash of sauce
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Merry safe Christmas!
We love that some Mumbaikars are balancing COVID safety precautions while immersing themselves in the festive spirit like these women in Bandra
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When Luke collaborated with Sri Sri
Holistic health coach Luke Coutinho whose videos promoting spiritual, mental and physical wellbeing are quite a hit on social media, has now joined hands with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s The Art of Living. Coutinho’s holistic healing services will offer four new Art of Living programmes to everyone. The programmes, he says, will be available in group and individual class formats online, by senior coaches of The Art of Living. “Our common goal is to organise and use our authority, integrity, knowledge, wisdom and experience to help you create and keep your power, patience and peace,” Luke says. A three-day course will cost you Rs 3,000.
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What you probably didn’t know about Ranji
Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji. Pic/Getty Images
A large portion of cricketers playing in the ongoing Ranji Trophy season would know very little of the man who the national championship silverware is named after. Kathiawar-born Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji was a batting prince, who played 15 Tests for England. He made the leg glance his trademark shot and his contribution to cricket was beyond his near-25,000 first-class runs. To say he was hero-worshipped in England would be an understatement and despite his popularity, we keep learning more about the man. Our in-house cricket nut discovered in an article recently that tobacconists sold Ranji match boxes and at food counters there were sandwiches bearing his name. There were also Ranji hair-restorers used at barber shops! Quite a star and a character, which our cricketers would do well to know more about. Oh yes, he also wrote the Jubilee Book of Cricket, an instructional volume.
An actual farm to table restaurant for Prateek Sadhu
It will soon be a year since celebrated chef Prateek Sadhu moved on from Masque, and while he has been doing a pop-up here and a collaboration there, everybody has been wondering when he would be making the big announcement unveiling his plan. Well, we don’t have the official announcement yet, but this diarist has learnt that Sadhu is all set to have his farm-to-table restaurant in Gurugram where everything used would be grown on their own farms, with cows producing the dairy the establishment needs. Truth be told, we aren’t surprised. In an interview done about three years ago to this diarist, he expressed the desire to own one, but he hadn’t been able to find the space an idea such as this demands.We are happy that he’ll finally actualise that dream, although pity, it isn’t anywhere near Mumbai.
Homecoming for Blackstratblues
Mumbai’s renowned guitarist Warren Mendonsa, also known by his stage name Blackstratblues, who shifted to New Zealand during the pandemic, is returning to India again—this time for the newly announced music fest, OddBall. He will be performing in Bengaluru and Delhi as part of the festival in February. The last time Mendonsa was in Mumbai was during Independence Rock in November. “Mumbai is my home city, where I have spent the first 25 years [as a musician] so it’s like coming home,” he says. Those who have attended a Blackstratblues gig are aware that the same song is never performed in the same way twice. While it was disappointing to not see Mendonsa in the Mumbai line-up of OddBall, he said that he’d be performing in the city at a later date. “We don’t have anything finalised but we are planning to perform in Bombay during the first week of March and also in Pune,” he adds. Besides performing in his home city, another thing he is looking forward to is the food. “I missed going to a lot of places in November as it was a short trip,” he says.
Mind the gap at this ‘katta’
Mumbai’s historic Shivaji Park maidan is all set to be decorated for the new year. The iconic spot where cricket and folklore come together, is lit up for the end of the year annually. While that will be eye-catching, cast an eye downwards on the famed maidan’s “katta”. The “katta” that runs around the maidan, had a bright orange and yellow tiling on it, installed quite recently. This has now come off in many places, leaving unsightly gaps in the iconic seating space. We do not use the word iconic loosely. It is replete with lore and has its own Facebook community called “Shivaji Park katta”. Let us see a more lasting, hardy re-installation this time around, so that people enjoy a cuppa with some gappa in 2023.
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