Sounds from the desi dhaba
If you’re bored of pop numbers that sound all the same, check out the Soundcloud account of Girls at Dhabas, a feminist collective in Pakistan that is reclaiming public spaces for women. As part of their work, they occasionally upload playlists of tracks made by and for South Asian women. “The music... is a testament to female longing and desire as documented by South Asian music of all genres - indie, fusion, classical, electronic - and symbolic of a larger conversation led by female musicians from Nepal, Pakistan and India,” reads a post explaining the reason behind the curation. That’s music to our ears.

Choosing 70
Dr Arshiya Lokhandwala has been preoccupied the last few months planning a mega exhibition, India Re-worlded - Seventy Years of Investigating a Nation. She shut her gallery, Lakereen, earlier this year, and, in the role of the nomadic curator is set to open this exhibition at Gallery Odyssey in Lower Parel on September 9.