Monday afternoon saw a swathe of the city’s best and brightest, gather at noted art historian Saryu Doshi’s breezy art terrace-lined apartment at Cumballa Hill, to meet the young recipients of the Saryu Doshi Post Graduate Fellowships in Liberal Arts & Sciences
Monday afternoon saw a swathe of the city’s best and brightest, gather at noted art historian Saryu Doshi’s breezy art terrace-lined apartment at Cumballa Hill, to meet the young recipients of the Saryu Doshi Post Graduate Fellowships in Liberal Arts & Sciences.
“The Vinod & Saryu Doshi Foundation is a non-profit charity trust that supports initiatives in the fields of art and culture, education and community,” says a spokesperson. “In order to encourage and support Indian students pursuing Humanities, Social Sciences & Pure Sciences, the Foundation provides scholarships and fellowships to talented, but financially challenged young Indians.”
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The recipients of the fellowships with Saryu Doshi
And there to meet the bright sparks, off to enrich their minds at leading universities such as Stanford, Harvard, and Cambridge, were the likes of film maker Govind Nihalani, art patron Pheroza Godrej, aesthete Sonal Shah and author Sudha Shah.
Guests enjoyed the household’s famous homemade vegetarian Gujarati-Maharashtrian cuisine and the ambience over lunch was warm, as the students shared stories of the challenges they have overcome, and their aspirations for the future. “Few lunches are as worthwhile... only the Doshis can reach out...” said one of the eminent guests present.
In black and white
It is being talked about as the book to watch out for, when KK Modi, Chairman, Modi Enterprises, and father of beleaguered IPL founder Lalit Modi, will publish the tome he is said to be currently working on.
Minal, Lalit Modi and KK Modi
The senior Modi, who is known as a man who doesn’t pull his punches, and who has taken on many a mighty battle in his time is expected to spill the beans on many a modern conundrum: from his own somewhat rocky relationship with son Lalit, who defied his conservative Marwari family by marrying his mother’s friend Minal, nine years his senior, to the various ways the family business was spliced.
Modi will certainly have a lot to say if the said book sees light of day. “The text has been coming along at a steady clip,” says a source, adding, “Given that there are so many stories that KK has to tell, now they’re sourcing designers to do it all justice.”
Easy rider
“My wife Priti and I are a middle-aged couple,” says the dashing Aditya (Mickey) Raj Kapoor, son of screen legend Shammi Kapoor, who appears to have blossomed in his senior years in a hundred different directions, as biker, author, chef and artist.
Aditya Raj Kapoor
“One day, Priti and I decided to do something different, for which we could be remembered. We took a bike trip from Mumbai to Himachal and back, and I documented the trip in a book, Bike on a hike, which we published on Amazon,” says the alumnus of Campion School and Lawrence school, Sanawar. “Now, I call myself a retired businessman, part-time actor and full-time biker,” he says.
Incidentally this interest in all things eclectic, is reflective of his late father who was an IT buff, a musician and photographer, even as he held a successful career in Bollywood. “My second book will be out before the year closes and I have just bought a Triumph Bonneville, the type that Steve McQueen rode in The Great Escape,” says the free spirit. “Next year, I won’t be available for a very long period of time as I’m going on the mother of all sabbaticals,” he says, adding, “Unheard of, at least in my family.”
Design diva
This Sunday will see some of the country’s foremost design and advertising folk gather at SoBo over pink champagne, beer, and tasty treats by Theobroma’s Kainaz Messman Harchandrai, to celebrate a retrospective of four decades of the work of iconic Mumbai-based designer, Elsie Nanji.
Elsie Nanji. Pic/Twitter and (right) Kainaz Messman Harchandrai
Something of a mother figure to a slew of advertising talent, Nanji whose recent exhibition of her groundbreaking work in advertising, design, art direction, and more, at the JJ School of Art, garnered much interest; has recreated the experience for those who missed it the first time around. Nice!
Just another day in paradise
More on the recent raid of a leading business group described by a biz insider as ‘staggering in size and scope,’ “Over a hundred personnel deployed, across many cities and over thousands of hours,” he says.
As for the man at the centre of it all, the group’s dashing head honcho, said to be close to Congress heavyweights — he appears to be MIA. “Ever since the crack down, the gentleman appears to have disappeared from the face of the earth,” says the source, “and that’s because in actuality he’s nowhere on earth — he’s currently ensconced on his super luxury yacht in the middle of the ocean.” Marooned on a yacht in the middle of blue waters? That’s not too bad a place to duck a situation, we respond.
“Exactly,” says the source “But the hundreds of employees facing the long arm of the law, are not amused. After all while he is fiddling away like Nero, they’re paying the price for his alleged misdemeanours.” “Yachting away — not fiddling,” we corrected. Which in today’s times is the equivalent, of course.
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