Mumbai Diary: Wednesday Dossier

Aiming for the skySairat actor Rinku Rajguru gets into the spirit of Makar Sankranti and flies a kite after the music launch of her upcoming film at a cinema hall in Dadar on Tuesday PicBipin KokateCan you imagine a verse situationOne outcome of the antiCAA protests across the country is the flourishing of different forms of creativity be it in the clever posters that people have made the hardhitting chants that ring in the air or various pieces of film music and spoken word that people have created One example is Varun Grovers Hum kaagaz nahin dikhayenge which has gone famously viral Now Mumbaibased rapper Slowcheetah has also written a verse that takes potshots at the ruling dispensationIts set to the background of AR Rahmans track from Roja Bharat hum ko jaan se pyara hai But the musician doesnt rap in the track Instead he calmly delivers barbs at the government Sample lines Yahaan na poochhega koi jaat Naa mangega kaagzat Chal kar le apni mann ki baat and Oi chowkidar paise chhod Izzat thodi kamaale Har sacch ki doodh mein paani daale Chai toh theek se bana le SavageTopsyturvy stuffWhy is the calligraphy on Badshah Akbars Armour upside down pointing to middle instead of head sic When historian Rana Safvi made this observation of a display at Chhatrapati Shivaji Vastu Sangrahalaya she received a flurry of possible explanations with no definite conclusionWhile some pointed out that it was done so that the seemingly illiterate Akbar could read it when he looks down one professor argued that he could very well read and write At the end of it all Safvi was in agreement with journalist Manimugdha Sharma who said the exhibit was in fact the back plate of the cuirassHeres why two city ballerinas are twirling with joyTwo little ballerinas from Mumbai must be dancing in joy Sisters Shreya and Shrirudra Singh are students at the citys Indian Academy of Russian Ballet and have been selected for a course run by the Bolshoi Ballet Academy BBA in Russia considered a global Mecca for the dance formShrirudra Singh left and her sister Shreya perform on stage for a ballet recitalTheir instructor Apexa Bhattacharyya whos been teaching the two girls now aged nine and 10 since they were five years old told this diarist BBA has summer courses across the globe on completing which students get a chance to audition for a fulltime course We sent video auditions of the two girls who were accepted at the branches in Italy and Switzerland Our congratulationsWinning linesThe Crossword Book Awards were announced yesterday and the winners include Madhuri Vijay for The Far Field N Prabhakaran for The Diary of a Malayali Madman Sudha Murty for The UpsideDown King Unusual Tales About Rama and Krishna and Twinkle Khanna for Pyjamas are ForgivingBut unlike other years the awards show was held at the Crossword store in Kemps Corner instead of a fancier location After Kala Ghoda failing to get sponsors is this another sign of the economic downturnFlying Thai in MumbaiAn ongoing exhibition titled Dear Women is earning critical praise for depicting the four stages of trauma through its hardhitting framesIndoThai artist Amonwan Mirpuri has used the walls of Kala Ghodas Method Art Space to create a wall of disruption acceptance healing and reintegration mdash turning trauma into triumph It is an ode to women who have lost their innate powers strength and voice and have succumbed to exploitation and oppression she saidCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates