10 February,2026 07:44 AM IST | Mumbai | Team mid-day
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Two Black Kites aim to pick their meal from a swamp in Versova
Members of Bucket Hat Cult and Fem Blue cheering for their teams. Pics courtesy/bucket hat cult; @femblue1947
Mumbai's women's cricket fan community, Bucket Hat Cult heads to Perth to cheer for India's women cricketers for their Test match against Australia from March 6 to 9. "We'll also join football fan community, Fem Blue for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup games for matches on March 4 and 7; for the latter games, we'll be in Stand S121, row A to C," Akshay Dutia, founding member, Bucket Hat Cult, revealed.
A previous edition of the festival. Pic courtesy/@slingshot_festival
Electronic music geeks are in for a treat next Saturday, with the popular Slingshot Festival of Music and Electronic Art making its India debut in the city. The tech-meets-music roster features special acts like MC Yallah from Uganda and German robotics engineer and musician Moritz Simon Geist. While we're all ears, we're not sure what to make of the festival being sponsored by an AI chatbot, Claude, amid rising debates around AI in art. As Bob Dylan aptly put it: The times, they are a-changin...
The stitched pieces with varying readings of the AQI. Pics courtesy/Sia Khandelwal
Those frustrated with Mumbai's poor Air Quality Index (AQI) will find a kindred spirit in Sia Khandelwal (below). The owner of a textile crafts studio named Silchi has been stitching the AQI into a canvas measuring 4x4, using data from the website, AirVisual. "Living in Mumbai, air pollution is something we're constantly aware of, but something we normalise. I work with the day's average AQI for Mumbai. I'm not sure what the end product is going to be, but right now, it's more about the process. It's a good way to spotlight the problem, because there is no other way to help solve it," she shared with this diarist.
Silver rupee of Italian Somaliland, struck at the Royal Mint of Rome, in 1910
Sarmaya Arts Foundation is set to release a book on February 12 tracing the history of the Rupee, titled, Odyssey of the Rupee: From India to the World.
Paul Abraham. Pics courtesy/Sarmaya Arts Foundation
"It contains a collection of essays about how the Rupee was minted beyond India, mainly during colonial periods, from parts of East Africa to Indonesia, and about its future as a currency," Paul Abraham, founder, Sarmaya Arts Foundation, told us.
