17 April,2022 07:16 AM IST | Mumbai | Team mid-day
Pic/Atul Kamble
A hawker sells the gada, much like Lord Hanuman's, at the Bandra Sion Link Road
Sabitha Satchi
Post the Mumbai show on FN Souza's works which was on display till early January this year, Goa will now see another one of his exhibitions. Posthumous Dialogues with Souza: Homage to a Goan Artist is a series of events organised by The Raza Foundation, New Delhi. "We are trying to honour and showcase the artistic legacy of Souza; he's one of the greatest modernist artists of all times. We are bringing him to his childhood home in Saligao," says Sabitha Satchi, the curator of this exhibition. It took Satchi around two years to put this exhibition together. "It is responding to our times of pandemic, climate change and increased violence," says Satchi. The exhibition will be held at the Museum of Goa from April 23 to May 30.
New Jersey resident Nev March whose last novel Murder in Old Bombay: A Mystery made waves in America, is all set to release a new sequel. While the first one unfolded in Bombay and was inspired by historical events in the port city (some of which she has been sharing on Twitter), Peril at the Exposition, which will be published in July, is set in 1893 Chicago. In this one, her protagonist Captain Jim is asked to investigate a murder at the World's Fair. "It shares glimpses of the emotional journey of an immigrant while exploring an age-long political divide at the root of present day politics, demonstrating again that historical fiction brings clarity and focus to today's conundrums," says March.
Imran Khan
Imran Khan hasn't emerged smelling of roses after his latest drubbing on the political pitch and those who dislike him have been swift to sharpen their knives to attack and ridicule him. They reckon that Imran displayed poor sportsmanship by blocking the no-confidence motion against him. Be that as it may, his critics must be reminded that Imran, not many decades ago, did not want to win amidst wagging tongues about the poor quality of Pakistan umpires. That is how neutral umpires (India's Piloo Reporter and VK Ramaswamy) officiated from the second Test of the three-Test 1986-87 home series against the West Indies. The visitors led by Vivian Richards won the first Test at Faisalabad, where home umpires Khizer Hayat, Mian Mohammad Aslam stood, while Reporter and Ramaswamy did duty in Lahore and Karachi. The gripping series ended 1-1. Imran's role in having neutral umpires for that series strengthened the belief that it's only fair to post umpires from overseas to supervise cricket matches. Cricket and politics are two different spheres and Imran could well have caused his own downfall on the territory of the latter, but why discredit his cricketing achievements, ask his fans.
Eminent media educator Jeroo Mulla was bestowed with an award last night by Global Communication Education Conclave, a unique 75-day event involving Indian and global academics and professionals, for her stellar contribution to media and communication education. The former head of department for Social Communications Media at Sophia Polytechnic, Mulla has spent over three decades teaching film appreciation, photography, the fundamental concepts of communications, and supervising student documentaries at the institute. An accomplished Bharatanatyam exponent, she is also the first recipient of the Professor Satish Bahadur Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contribution to Film Studies in South Asia. Currently, she is a visiting faculty at Sophia while also being on the Academic Advisory Committee of St Xavier's College for the BMM programme and Academic Council of Haridev University for Mass Communication and Journalism in Jaipur.
The week has been a blur of Alia Bhatt-Ranbir Kapoor wedding pictures, and everyone seems to have noticed the white and gold pairing. A little birdie told us that global flower company Interflora India, which has operations in UK, US, Australia and Europe and sources blossoms from Holland, Kenya, Columbia and parts of Europe, was the flower partner for the decor, wedding cake styling and the varmalas for the power couple. The brief given was to imitate a rustic enchanted forest - organic, earthy, natural and sun-kissed. Interflora used a mix of roots, twigs and jute spun with homegrown wild flowers. Cute dragonflies, earthen pottery vintage glasses, and custom-made embroidered linen curtains brought warmth to the decor. The cake, which is rumoured to have been made by Pooja Dhingra, was styled with homegrown pressed leather ferns, pink Santini and baby's breath.
