Mumbai Diary: Sunday Dossier

Aanchal Malhotrarsquos book returns homeOral historian Aanchal Malhotrarsquos deeply researched 2018 book Remnants of a Separation which was a unique attempt to revisit the Partition through objects that refugees carried with them across the border is now being translated into Punjabi The new translation titled Batvare Di Kahani Vasta Di Zubani is being published by Unistar Books ldquoThe translation of the book into Punjabi feels like a return to the mother tongue for many of my interviewees I am so pleased that it has been done keeping the linguistic landscape of prePartitioned Punjab in mind and I hope it will widen the readership of the text and pave the way for other regional translationsrdquo Malhotra told this diarist Incidentally starting this week her book will also be available in French titled Vestiges drsquoune Separation becoming the first nonSouth Asian language that the text has been translated intoBach in TardeoIn 2019 this newspaper had covered a cool homegrown music school called 88The Piano Academy founded by siblings Shivani and Vivek Patel from Nepean Sea Road The duo has now opened a new studio at Tardeo where they offer lessons in drums western vocals and guitar ldquoWe have over 250 students and the age group starts at three and goes up to nearly 80rdquo says Shivani During the pandemic their global footprint increased and they now conduct online lessons across the US UK the Middle East and the Far East ldquoEvery student is different so we have designed a specialised curriculum that caters to their personality and interestsrdquo adds VivekWhen Waugh was not on the markMark Waugh that elegant Australian batsman who is now a TV pundit in Australia got his sums wrong on Thursday after Australia bundled out Bangladesh for a mere 73 in the T20 World Cup During the innings break Waugh and his colleagues Brett Lee and Brendan Julian were discussing on Fox Cricket how soon Australia should reach their target to do their net runrate a world of good Waugh felt it would be eight overs and said ldquoEight 12s were 76 when I went to school so hang on eight oversrdquo If Waugh had used a calculator he would have known that 8x12 equals 96 Australia went on to achieve their target in 62 overs Where Waughrsquos student days are concerned he admitted in his biography written by James Knight that maths was not a favourite subject for him and twin brother Steve In fact he said they were ldquohopelessrdquo The viewers neednrsquot have been surprised by his gaffe after allWill the Raymond feud ever endPic CreditAFPFormer chairman emeritus of Raymond Group and an aviator Vijaypat Singhaniarsquos autobiography An Incomplete Life may not see the light of day just yet On Thursday the Bombay High Court vacation bench restrained Macmillan Publishers India Pvt Ltd from publication of the book It may be recalled that Singhania is embroiled in a legal battle with his estranged son Gautam Singhania and Raymond Ltd over the release of the book for over three years In response to the HC order the publishing company has issued a statement which reads ldquoWe want to clarify that Pan Macmillan India was not party to any proceedings in the Thane district court in 2019 between Raymond and the authorrsquos previous publishers As such we were also not made aware of any injunction by the sessions court at Thane regarding any prior version of the book The contents of the manuscript submitted to us were vetted by a legal expert and we believe the book published by us to not be defamatory While we are fully complying with the order of 4 November 2021 passed by the Honourable High Court we are seeking legal advice as to the remedies available to Pan Macmillan IndiardquoA welldeserved honourWriter and columnist Sumedha RaikarMhatre has won the Laadli Media and Advertising Award for Gender Sensitivity 2021 for her midday article Conquering the Enemy in the Kitchen about the challenges of everyday cooking during the lockdown and the social and psychological pressures of ambitious recipes that were routinely shared online by others at the time ldquoItrsquos enthusing to know that the writing on my pandemic time kitchen experiments was appreciated by the Laadli jury For me the citation is a validation of the worldview presented in my midday culture column which has been such a precious space for me for the last eight yearsrdquo said RaikarMhatre about her win