The city - sliced, diced and served with a dash of sauce
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Watch your mouth!
A caretaker shares a lighthearted moment with his pet German Shepherd at Oval Maidan
Let the record play
Visitors browse through a collection of vinyl records. PIC COURTESY/JOURNAL
This Sunday already sounds like a good idea. Pun firmly in cheek, this diarist was happy to learn that Journal, a café in Santacruz, is hosting a vinyl listening programme featuring homegrown Indian indie music along with brunch. “The idea for Soulful Sundays came from wanting to create an experience that felt true to Journal, since it’s a space where food, music, and community naturally come together. Music has always shaped how I see the world, and we try to carry that same energy through the café,” said Ateet Singh, the co-founder of Journal. Nehal Shah, director of India Record Co, added, “The energy that this vinyl session brings is what makes it special.”
Written between the lines
The book includes limericks for each station on Mumbai’s railway lines. Pic/Satej Shinde
We always knew Mumbai’s local trains moved to a rhythm. It’s pretty close to the sing-song meter of a limerick, if you ask linguist Raamesh Raghavan (below), who has penned a new book titled Suburban Limericks. Jotted down on notepads and the back of train tickets during his travels, the collection includes one limerick each for every station on Mumbai’s Western, Central, Harbour, Trans-Harbour and Port lines.
A limerick dedicated to a rather healthy eater from SoBo goes, ‘There was a lady of Marine Lines, who subsisted chiefly on green vines. With lettuce to munch, she’d spend hours at lunch — that ruminant lady of Marine Lines’.
Mama Kane’s misal. PIC COURTESY/Mama Kane
“I have been scribbling down my limericks during my travels for the past 15 years. It began with a visit to Dadar West’s Mama Kane Upahar Gruha where I wrote a limerick on the inimitable missal the eatery whips up,” Raghavan revealed to us.
Run it to win it
Participants complete a task at the outdoor gym on Carter Road. Pic Courtesy/Manalikadam on Instagram
Runners from the Bombay Running club could’ve given your favourite Hollywood action hero a run for his money last weekend. Nearly 40 participants racked their brains, and pulled off acrobatic feats in groups at an outdoor treasure hunt in Bandra. “The hunt featured cryptic clues to famous landmarks like the Bat of Honour installation, Jogger’s Park and Mehboob Studio. It was an engaging session where the runners also ended up learning about Bandra and its icons along the way,” shared co-founder Priyanca Walanju. To keep an eye out for upcoming sessions, log on to @bombayrunning on Instagram.
Thanks, Mr Thapar
Valmik Thapar and Sahir Doshi. Pic/Getty Images
A crop of young city-based green crusaders are reminiscing memories of an old teacher this week. “I was part of Valmik Thapar’s Kids for Tiger programme as a school-going kid in the early 2000s. We stepped into the dense green covers of Tadoba and Ranthambhore under his wings. Mr Thapar spoke with a fiery passion and uninhibited anger, much like a child. Perhaps, that is why his words stuck with me forever,” recalled naturalist and science educator Sahir Doshi (inset). For young enthusiasts keen to draw inspiration from Thapar’s life, Doshi recommends watching the Land of The Tiger series, an exhaustive documentary on the natural history of India.
No sticky business
The rescued myna in Ashok Nagar, Mulund. PIC COURTESY/KUNAL THAKKAR
We’d be pretty bummed if we woke up drenched in industry-grade adhesive, to be frank. It’s not much different for the city’s birds, says animal rescuer Kunal Thakkar, who recently rescued a myna from a household glue trap in Mulund’s Ashok Nagar. “People often place these traps for rodents, but birds looking for shelter in the monsoon inadvertently fall prey. The glue seeps into the feathers and does irreversible damage,” Thakkar shared. After a long bath in vegetable oil to dissolve the glue, the myna was released in its natural habitat. “This one was lucky, but many of them aren’t. The ethical solution is to let fauna thrive in your neighbourhood. Nature’s food pyramid has its own way of eliminating pests and parasites,” Thakkar reminded us.
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