The city — sliced, diced and served with a dash of sauce
Emraan is on a spook trail
Emraan Hashmi, once associated with all things lips, has a new tag. This one, associated with the paranormal, has surpassed that reputation.
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True to his image, the star headed off for an adventure at a spooky house in Bandra with Culture Machine and a ghostbuster from the Indian Paranormal Society.
At the house, we hear that a lot happened, including a session of planchet and interaction. The ghosts could not be reached to know if they approved of the event.
The best seat in the house
Pic/Nimesh Dave
Anil Kapoor seems to be at ease seated on the floor, engaged in a chat with Javed Akhtar at the music launch of a film that stars his son, Harshavardhan.
Of writers and a drought
A dystopian tale about the fate of men who neglect nature, set in a drought-hit village in Maharashtra, won Mumbai’s Meghna Pant the 2016 FON South Asia Short Story Award on Nature Writing.
Meghna Pant
The short story titled People of the Sun is an initiative of the Kumaon Literary Festival, in partnership with the French Institute of India and Wildlife Trust of India, to throw light on serious environment issues. The jury included India’s Jerry Pinto, Mridula Koshy and Shinie Antony, UK’s James Champion, Samrat Upadhyay from USA and Afia Aslam from Pakistan.
Pant has won a cash prize and will be presented the award in New Delhi by the French Ambassador next month. Pant was honoured, humbled and delighted. “Awards are what the sun is to nature: deeply nourishing. I wrote a story about farmers in a drought-ridden village, which I hoped would make people aware, make them think, and — hopefully, even — make them act.
As an artist you have to possess a sense of responsibility to the world around you. You have to, in your own little way, hold up a mirror to society,” says the author, who recently launched her book of short stories, The Trouble With Women.
Golgappa lessons from Prof Goila
Wouldn’t you love a professor who whips up yum dishes while delivering a lecture? We’re guessing eight students, who attended a lecture at chef Rakhee Vaswani’s studio in Santacruz, would have felt the same.
Saransh Goila with students at Palate Culinary Studio
The students are part of a UK-certified culinary course that she is launching at Palate Culinary Studio and Saransh Goila is visting faculty. Over four hours, he shared his understanding of setting up a successful food start-up, doled out tips on honing knife skills and also offered a demo on a few appetisers, and his signature chocolate golgappas.
We hear the students were also witness to a rapid fire round with the chef where he revealed that he wanted to pursue acting before finding his calling in the kitchen.
Exhibitions come home
Technology has now ensured that even if you can’t visit fantastic exhibitions, the exhibitions will come to you.
Now, two exhibits curated by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) can be viewed online by people around the world as a result of a partnership between Google Arts & Culture and the museum.
The two exhibitions that Google users will have access to include Fauna of Indian Subcontinent and Animal in Indian Art. We’d love to see more museums in the country follow suit, and bring the worlds of museums and tech together.
Deepa Malik’s Mumbai 26/11 tryst
Athlete Deepa Malik, 45, became the first Indian woman to win a medal at the Paralympics. The silver medalist (shot put) in the ongoing edition in Rio (Brazil) was in Mumbai during the terror attacks of 26/11 in 2008.
Deepa Malik in Rio. PIC/AP
This diarist recalls a chat with her at the time. Deepa had said, “I was in Mumbai to attend a bike rally on November 30, Sunday, a day before World Aids Day. As a paraplegic, I have a special ‘quad’ bike on which I would have lead a clutch of riders, in a ride symbolic of the courage needed to fight the scourge.
Today, I feel so proud as I see these young men wear their uniforms and rush out to save people from this most heinous attack. We also need to look at the unity of these men in uniform, who are battling to save lives.
Does anybody ask which religion or caste they are from? Who are these people who are saving Mumbai? Are they Marathis? North Indians? South Indians? Their uniform and service to the nation defines them. Why can’t we be like the Army? One. And it should not take a crisis to unite us.” More on Deepa on page 40.
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