Mumbai Diary page: Wednesday Whispers

Be there to show you careSoBo is fighting its couldnrsquotcareless image with a seminar called Meet Your Candidate scheduled for Sunday April 6 at the Meher Apartments lawns The cityrsquos posh set have a dismal track record when it comes to votingMany of them are away on their summer foreign jaunts when the elections have come around Once again the Altamount Road Area Citizens Committee ARACC along with the Pedder Road Residents Association Carmichael Road Citizens Committee and Nepean Sea Road Citizens Forum is urging residents to go out and vote beginning with the Meet Your Candidates Meeting Letters have gone out to residents and awareness is being created about the meetingWe hear that Milind Deora Congress in alliance with the NCP Bala Nandgaonkar MNS Meera Sanyal AAP and Arvind Sawant Shiv Sena in alliance with the BJP have confirmed attendanceSpeeches will be followed by an interactive session after which time permitting the candidates and residents could mingle post the meet One does not know about that but letrsquos remind the swish set that it is Lok Sabha not Lok Muah Muah so they should hold off on the air kissingRather neat PunithHot shot fashion designer Padma Shri Wendell Rodricks has picked the poster submitted by Hyderabadbased graphic designer Punith Mahesh as the winning design of the KASHISH International Poster CompetitionThe winning posterThis poster design contest saw entries from across India Mumbai Hyderabad to Chandigarh Goa and Shillong there were some from Malaysia Indonesia and Estonia exotic yes we know tooPunithrsquos poster will be the look of the fifth edition of KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival scheduled to be held from May 21 to May 25 this yearPunith MaheshKASHISH 2014 is South Asiarsquos and Indiarsquos biggest and only mainstream queer film festival to be held in Mumbai at a multiplex and at Alliance Franccedilaise de Bombay It is the first and only gay and lesbian film festival in India to be held in a mainstream theatreThe competition asked designers to creatively interpret this yearrsquos festival theme lsquoDare To Dreamrsquo Wendell said of the winning design ldquoThe stark graphics and the concept of exploring the mind makes this poster a winnerExplaining his design Punith said that the butterflies represent the flight of human ideas imagination and innovation while the stars depict the infinite world out there for the ideas to soarHmmm Interesting Now if only Indiarsquos political parties and courts would be a bit like the butterfly mdash with a flight arc of openness and inclusiveness The community still dares to dreamThen and now and howItrsquos three years for Indiarsquos 2011 World Cup triumph today mdash achieved on a hot summer night at Mumbairsquos Wankhede Stadium Herersquos what has changed for Indian cricket since that redletter dayThe Indian team celebrates their World Cup triumph after beating Sri Lanka at the cityrsquos Wankhede Stadium on April 2 2011 PicGetty ImagesSachin Tendulkar who played the last of his six World Cups is now enjoying the charms of a retired lifeVirender Sehwag is fighting hard to impress 1983 World Cupper and chairman of selectors Sandeep Patil and thus return to the teamGautam Gambhir same as aboveDuncan Fletcher is now coach after Gary Kirsten decided enough is enough For Fletcher nothing is enough and he has reportedly got an extension in contractMany forget that S Sreesanth was part of that World Cup XI He would be wise not to think about a recall after the spot fixing controversyMunaf Patel is confined to domestic cricket At the moment he is in the city with the Baroda team for the Mushtaq Ali Trophy T20 West Zone competitionMahendra Singh Dhoni is no longer the undisputed king of the pitch but hersquos still hitting them high wide and handsome He hit Bangladeshrsquos Ziaur Rahman to the sightscreen for a six and finished off the game like he did to Nuwan Kulasekara to bring the curtains down on the World Cup final on April 2 2011 May he lead us to another world title in Bangladesh on Sunday Then we can celebrate two anniversaries next April