The Maoris are coming

gtgt Being preternaturally interested in all things fuzzy and new age we have chanted with Native Indians had our cranialsacial fluids balanced and had the benefit of many wildflower healings we are happy to report that for the first time ever Atarangi Muru and her group Maori Healers from New Zealand will be visiting India to bring their 12000yearold traditional healing techniques to those who need it ldquoAta is one of Maoridoms most respected healersrdquo says Shaan Khatau filmmaker and new age seeker who has spent many years researching the field ldquoShe grew up in an environment where healing was a natural everyday event learning the skills and tricks from her uncles and aunts Maori women Representation pic Her work is deep unique uplifting enlivening and rewarding physically and spiritually Ata will be accompanied with her brother Manu mdash described as ldquoenigmatic and gifted Maori healerrdquo ldquoDuring a session deeply held emotions may be brought to the surface These emotional experiences are behind all physical psychological or mental ailments Their tremendous success all over the world has been a result of successfully addressing the whole body instead of just treating symptoms and in that way achieving thousands of lsquomiracle healingsrsquordquo says Khatau As they say be there or be square Easy Riders gtgtu00a0The coming of the monsoons inspires Mumbaikars to all kinds of activity walks in the park treks and drives in and around Matheran and Mahabaleshwar and motorbike adventures Or so we learnt from Aditya Raj Kapoor the dashing son of the late great veteran Shammi ldquoI went to the Satara Kass plateau on a Royal Enfield with 16 other bikers from a club called Bisons Ride Hardrdquo he informed us Aditya Raj Kapoor The Clubrsquos mission statement incidentally describes it as a club lsquoNot for the weak or faint hearted Like we ride amp we ride hard when it rains when the roads are bad or there are none and when we have no destination to reach The club is about the beast in all of usrsquo Like Yeah Like Vroom Like we like A journey to the South Pole gtgtu00a0Vijay M Crishna the Executive Director of Lawkim Motors Group Vikhroli and wellknown stage actor has been a busy man in the past few days Not only did he present The Museum Society of Bombay and Cymroza Art Gallery a talk accompanied by a multimedia presentation titled Journey to Worldrsquos End about his travels to the Antarctic in the company of renowned explorer Sir Robert Swan earlier in the week but yesterday members of the Bombay Gym were afforded the same treatu00a0 Vijay Crishna with Sir Robert Swan Held in the main dining room and with the clubrsquos famous tea and egg sandwiches at hand the likes of Zenia Lawyer Manek Davar Manek Guzder and Gul Kriplani were among the 100strong audience that was given a first hand account of the fragile beauty of the South Poleu00a0Crishna an avid trekker and Life Member of The Himalayan Club since 1973 has trekked in some of the worldrsquos most alluring destinations like the Annapurna base camp and Muktinath areas in Nepal Green Lakes in North Sikkim Ladakh and Western Tibet ldquoI grew up in the hills Simla and walked three miles to school and three miles back So trekking came naturally I trekked as a schoolboy to the Pindari Glacier but the one that will always live with me is the trek over the Himalaya on the pilgrim trails to Mt Kailash and Lake Mansarovarrdquo he says But Vijayrsquos message was a bit more than a travellerrsquos tales He has a missionary zeal to highlight the disturbing ecological condition the world faces ldquoThe water situation we face is so serious that it39s perhaps a blessing in disguise we understand so little about itrdquo he says ldquoThe whole of South East Asia faces it but India and China mdash who have misused and polluted their rivers so seriously are especially vulnerable There are no easy solutions as it would take generations of dedicated efforts to bring back even part parity Water Wars lie ahead of us as a genuine possibilityrdquo Bigticket social event gtgtu00a0Word has it that the muchawaited fashion show and launch of the book celebrating AbuSandeeprsquos 25 years in designing will be held on August 18 at Antilia and hosted by none other than Nita Ambani after all AbuSandeep with Jaya Bachchan Friends of the duo were sent text messages to alert them to the event next month and the grapevine had it that the venue would be a South Mumbai museum Given the combined social clout of all parties involved this one promises to be a bigticket event for Mumbai Nita Ambani Yale and the art of marketing books gtgtu00a0Ashwin Sanghi best selling author The Rozabal Line and Chanakyarsquos Chant has brought to his writing career all the lessons that an MBA from Yale would his latest tome The Krishna Key which reviews have described as yet another exhaustively researched whopper of a plot is being marketed with all the flair that only the scion of a wellheeled Mumbai business family would understand with formidable web and social networking presence and links to websites and other less traditional ways of sampling and buyingu00a0 Ashwin Sanghi For instance Sanghirsquos legion of fans can read the first five chapters of his latest book online before preordering it Thatrsquos what an expensive Ivy League education teaches you u00a0