Mumbai Diary: Sunday Dossier

Rush hour is backYou know the lockdown has lifted when as many people are outside a BEST bus as inside Women commuters catch a bus in Dadar on SaturdayStudy heritage at IIM BangaloreCultre which has been providing online and offline solutions to improve access to heritage information and education has now partnered with IIM Bangalore to offer a new course titled Arts and Culture Towards a new management paradigm The arts culture and heritage have usually been approached from the historical legal aesthetic and institutional perspectives The goal of this course its team members say is to provide insights on the management dimensions of arts culture and heritage for professionals and students who desire to specialise in this domain ldquoIn a distributed world artistes need managers who can run their affairs without patronage This is point behind the courserdquo says Professor Damodaran A of IIM Bangalore who has floated the course The course which kickstarts from August 26 will continue for five weeks The topics will include economics of culture and heritage and the global policy landscape for decision makingApple sings to an Indian tuneMumbairsquos export to LA singersongwriter Natania Lalwani has added another feather to her cap Her song Fitness has been featured in an Apple commercial When we spoke to Lalwani she said ldquoI wrote Fitness with Ethan Roberts at the beginning of lockdown Itrsquos about motivation and about making yourself do things that get the endorphins goingrdquo That certainly could be the need of the hour and the commercial has been going viral Lalwani shared on Instagram how she had put the career goal on her bucket list many years ago and it seemed like it has manifested into realityFor a better sporting tomorrow for the youthAthletes from the CJ Goveas Foundation athletic programme in Talasari enjoying their posttraining diet of milk bananas and eggsThe Olympic Games have driven home the point yet again For India to get better in the sporting sphere youth is where you need to invest to produce champions A small organisation formed just before the pandemic struck last March is doing its bit to promote sports and their enterprise needs to be lauded Kids receive athletic training from reputed coach Ian Dexter Ladbrooke and the sporting diet aspect is never ignored Hopefully some day credit for the emergence of successful athletes can be apportioned to the CJ Goveas Foundation There is a challenge there is hopeSweets to keep celebrities fitThose of us who crave meetha after a meal might have often wondered how to break this habit But baker Juhi Pahwa founder of Better Binge has come up with a way around it 85 calorie cupcakes Pahwa who caters to the likes of Katrina Kaif Jacqueline Fernandes Jahnvi Kapoor and Rajkumar Rao says she created this because a lot of her celeb clients wanted a lowcal sweet for their 4 pm cravingsldquoFor instance Bhavna Pandey loves her cupcakes and likes to indulge in one every day These jowar and Belgian chocolate cupcakes are portion controlled to 85 calories They are made with natural sugars and a vegan chocolate ganache It comes in a box of nine and lasts upto eight days in the refrigerator They come in a variety of toppings like peanut butter cookie butter and dark chocolate hazelnut all homemaderdquoFor love of Goarsquos heritage homesLester SilveiraArchitect Lester Silveira who has been archiving Goarsquos rich architectural heritage through photography and is part of the Goa Collective which works towards better public and urban spaces in the state is starting a series called Heritage at Risk Launched in collaboration with citizenrsquos initiative Amche Mollem the series which begins next week on their Instagram page mymollemgoa will take a deeper look at the built heritage of Goa that is currently threatened by the South Western Railwaysrsquo prospective doubletracking project It will take people through the impacts of the railway line on Goarsquos unique heritage homes in the MormugaoVasco belt ldquoThese homes are already suffering as a result of the existing track Can they withstand another with more trains and vibrationsrdquo asks Silveira who says that the series will also reflect on life along the railway line