<h2>Where flamingos fly</h2>
<p>A giant flamingo sculpture being installed by the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation in Airoli</p>
<h2>For the love of singing</h2>
<p><img src="http://origin.mid-day.com/images/2022/apr/Euphony-Choir_e.jpg" alt="Nush Lewis with her community choir, The Euphony Choir" width="1280" height="720" /><br /><strong><em>Nush Lewis with her community choir, The Euphony Choir</em></strong></p>
<p>Around two months ago, musician Nush Lewis, who is the founder of Offset Education, a music education property, made the decision to start a community choir, The Euphony Choir. &ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t do anything [such as workshops] in the second wave and so we wanted to do execute something immediately and wanted it to be community-driven rather than just a workshop,&rdquo; says Lewis. &ldquo;I went back in time to when I had started, which was in a choir.&rdquo; &nbsp;The choir was started a month ago and they take up new registrations at the beginning of every month. &nbsp;While they had their first session for April on Saturday, they will still accept new registrations. The choir is open to people of all ages, gender and even disabilities. &ldquo;This is for people coming together for the love of singing,&rdquo; she says. The choir meets every Saturday 4 pm at Bay Owl Studios, Khar, and has a registration fee of R2,000 per month. &ldquo;It has been beautiful to see everybody accepting everyone in their own unique way and also being patient.&rdquo;</p>
<h2>In honour of Mehlli</h2>
<p><img src="http://origin.mid-day.com/images/2022/apr/Jerry-Pinto-aj_e.jpg" alt="Jerry Pinto" width="1280" height="720" /><br /><strong><em>Jerry Pinto</em></strong></p>
<p>Bandra&rsquo;s MCubed Library has been chosen to manage the The Mehlli Gobhai Award for the Best Work in Children&rsquo;s Book Illustration. The award will be announced in September this year, says author Jerry Pinto, the brainchild behind it. &ldquo;In the world of children&rsquo;s books, the unspoken heroes are the illustrators.&rdquo; As a children&rsquo;s writer, Pinto feels that it&rsquo;s the illustrations that help young readers jump off into the world of imagination. Since Mehlli was an illustrator himself, it was fitting to have an award that celebrated such works. &ldquo;In his will, he had left money for the promotion of artists; it would be a good way to bring them into the limelight.&rdquo; MCubed, says Pinto, was the perfect platform because Mehlli loved the library. &ldquo;He saw it as a small enterprise with a big vision.&rdquo;</p>
<h2>Popular umpire Piloo&rsquo;s lighter side on field</h2>
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<p>In the highly competitive world of contemporary cricket, television viewers don&rsquo;t often see umpires sharing light moments with cricketers in between deliveries or overs. It&rsquo;s all too serious on the mind-your-business path. This was not so in another era and it&rsquo;s probably a good time to remember all those umpires who were good at what they did with the rules and regulations, &nbsp;but also displayed their cheerful side. Let&rsquo;s take Piloo Reporter, 83, for example. He revealed in Sunday mid-day many moons ago that he&rsquo;d tell overstepping bowlers, who were having problems avoiding no-balls, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not interested in the headlines tomorrow, but you would be. So, take care.&rdquo; We&rsquo;re quite sure that no bowler took offence to Piloo&rsquo;s way of telling him or her to land that front foot right. Keep well, Piloo. We&rsquo;ll keep remembering you.</p>
<h2>An Italian culinary hero comes to Mumbai</h2>
<p><img src="http://origin.mid-day.com/images/2022/apr/Bottura_e.jpg" alt="Bottura was on TIME&rsquo;s 100 Most Influential People in the World list in 2019" width="1280" height="720" /><br /><strong><em>Bottura was on TIME&rsquo;s 100 Most Influential People in the World list in 2019</em></strong></p>
<p>Restaurateur and the chef patron of Osteria Francescana, a three-Michelin-star restaurant based in Italy that has often found itself at the top of the World&rsquo;s 50 Best Restaurants list, Massimo Bottura is coming to Mumbai. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve always loved India and its amazing people. Yes, more than food, it&rsquo;s the people. I love their smiles and attitudes. I can&rsquo;t wait to come and offer you a warm hug and beautiful food,&rdquo; says Bottura, who was also featured in the first episode of Netflix&rsquo;s Chef&rsquo;s Table (Season 1, 2015) and TIME&rsquo;s 100 Most Influential People in the World list in 2019. Invited by Masters of Marriott Bonvoy and Culinary Culture, Bottura isn&rsquo;t travelling alone. He is bringing his team along and together, they will be cooking two exclusive dinners at the St Regis Mumbai on April 15 and 16, priced at R35,000+taxes per person. Expect Bottura&rsquo;s signature dishes like &lsquo;Oops I dropped the Lemon Tart&rsquo;, a dish created by mistake, his childhood favourite The Crunchy Part of the Lasagne, and Beautiful Psychedelic Beet Not Flamed, Grilled, a dish created as a tribute to English artist Damien Hirst&rsquo;s spin-painted canvases.</p>
<h2>Racing is life</h2>
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<p>He quit the fast-paced world of racing to be an entrepreneur, and now is back to racing. Lee Keshav, who made his national-level debut in the highly competitive JK Tyre Volkswagen Motorsport Polo R Cup championship, and went on to take part in the MRF Challenge Winter Championship, took a break to start working with Hike, a messenger app, in 2015, where he now heads the design team. But, he couldn&rsquo;t stay away for too long. Speaking about his comeback plan, Keshav said, &ldquo;Professionally, it was a very long break from motorcar racing. I restarted my professional practise in January this year, but also being a part of a start-up, the schedule has been tight. I am in talks with a few organisations and individuals and should finalise one in the next couple of months.&rdquo; Keshav says that racing is full of life lessons. &ldquo;In racing, you&rsquo;re always taught that everything is under your control. Taking radical responsibility and being proactive is essential.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p><p>
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