Mumbai Diary: Tuesday Dossier

Not tyred of playingA group of boys have fun at Aarey Milk Colony on MondayTime for a changeRepresentation picThe pandemic has been rough for most working professionals But as vaccine development and production has accelerated itrsquos got people thinking about their career growth In a recent survey an employment portal has revealed that more than three in four professionals will consider changing jobs or look out for a new role in the next 12 months The survey also highlighted the top 15 career trends with freelance content taking the cake Despite Indians worrying about too many recruitment stages 38 per cent and extensive documentation 32 per cent they remain resilient 64 per cent state that they are confident about their future progress while two in five people view networking events and online learning as being key to getting a job this year Well we hope these plans materialiseNot just another manic MondayA student with a lsquospeed vs visionrsquo placardIt may have seemed like yet another manic Monday morning at Prabhadevi but there was a slight twist in that busy tale A group of RA Podar college students with neongreen reflective jackets were spotted standing at the corner of Sayani Road near the underconstruction Prabhadevi Metro Station They were holding placards reminding drivers and riders that roads are not Formula One tracksThe awareness drive takes place with social distancingSome of the messages from the banners read lsquoAs your speed increases your vision decreasesrsquo and lsquoa five per cent cut in average speed can result in a 30 per cent reduction in the number of fatal crashesrsquo Rohit Dalvi executive community impact department of the nonprofit United Way Mumbai under whose aegis this Slow Down Awareness Drive is taking place told this diarist ldquoWe have introduced this initiative at GirgaumChowpatty Haji Ali and are now at Prabhadevi as this is a hightraffic accidentprone spotrdquo Masked youngsters all distanced and disciplined showed there can be powerful statements even in silenceDining with the starsMizu an Asian eatery in Bandra seems to have found a highprofile celebrity as a fan considering that actor Ranveer Singh dropped in there twice over the course of one week recently He had wife Deepika Padukone for company the first time around and a bunch of his male friends accompanied him on the second visit Coowner Lakhan Jethani shared that he had the seafood items on the menu including hamachi smoked ponzu and torched salmon nigiri apart from tucking into chicken baos and gyozas ldquoWe left him a corner to eat the food since he had come over just for the mealrdquo Jethani told this diarist Well from the looks of it itrsquos a meal that he seems to have thoroughly enjoyedGhatam goodnessA still from the online performance featuring Sukanya Ramgopal and her studentsSeeing an ensemble of ghatam artistes perform is a rare sight But virtuoso Sukanya Ramgopal and five of her students will come together for an online fundraiser in support of the nonprofit India Foundation for the Arts About the show being streamed between February 12 and 14 Menaka Rodriguez head of resource mobilisation and outreach said ldquoItrsquos an exclusive recording and the funds go towards supporting arts projectsrdquo Head to indiaifaorg to tune inDetailing a decadeTo celebrate 10 years of designing with a focus on hand embroidery and mirror work Mumbai designer Arpita Mehta has chosen an unlikely medium mdash a coffee table book with a cover jacket that is in tune with her signature technique The 250pager titled The Mirror has been written by Kinjal Vora and assembled by graphic designer Tarana Sheth Sabharwal It includes photographs and anecdotes featuring celebrities including Sonam Kapoor Sonakshi Sinha Ananya Panday and Kiara Advani who have donned her creations Mehta said that the book ldquowas the perfect opportunity to stop and reflect It has brought all our beautiful campaigns and hard work back to liferdquo