04 October,2022 05:57 AM IST | Mumbai | Team mid-day
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An artist adds the finishing touches to the masks of 10-headed Raavan ahead of the Ravan Dahan at Girgaon Chowpatty.
Bhavan's college will hold the Wildlife festival till October 8
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Bhavan's College in Andheri will be spilling over with environmentally conscious youngsters this week. The ongoing Re:Wild 22 Wildlife festival at the college is aimed at creating awareness and educating the youth about conservation, Shailesh Kumar Gupta (inset), HOD, MSc Biodiversity, shared. "The goal is to creatively communicate information about wildlife and the affecting threats." With competitions centred on birding, nature photography, filmmaking on conservation projects and seminars by researchers on biodiversity and conservation science, students have a lot to learn from.
Palash Sen leads Euphoria at an earlier performance. Pic Courtesy/Instagram
With the music season well and truly underway, the city is catching some serious sound waves. The early nineties pop band, Euphoria, is set to return to the live stage with a performance in the city on October 7. The concert will be a part of the first year celebrations for Jio World Drive's outlet at the Bandra Kurla Complex. For the band though, it is a chance to put the pandemic blues behind. Palash Sen, the lead vocalist for the band shared, "Returning to Mumbai for a show after almost three years makes us feel, for the lack of any other word, euphoric." The singer added that returning to Mumbai was special since it was their home away from home. "The first two cities that really adopted us were Bombay and Kolkata," he revealed. As for the line-up, the singer promised a rerun of old hits from Maaeri to Dhoom pichak dhoom and Kabhi aana tu meri gully. "The good thing is that the audience often sings more than I do. I get to rest my voice a lot more," Sen told this diarist, adding that the show will also feature new songs from their upcoming album, including Kesariya balma.
An illustration from Chitty: A Dog and Her Forest Farm by Rajiv Eipe
Illustrator Rajiv Eipe (inset) could feel his life turn full circle this Sunday. The winner of the first Mehlli Gobhai award for Best Work in children's illustration for Chitty: A Dog and Her Forest Farm (Kalpavriksh), Eipe admitted that he was thrilled to meet cartoonist Hemant Morparia, who presented him with the award. "In the early 2000s, I would catch a train from CST, with a copy of the mid-day and enjoy his cartoons," he said. Of his own work, he added that the experience of visiting the author Serow helped the process. "We went for walks in the forest, visited the places where the real Chitty would hang out. Without that, my illustrations would not have had that richness and depth to add to the story," he told us.
Rucha Limaye at work on her canvas (right) Limaye's work in the foreground of the Kaas Plateau. Pic Courtesy/@ruandchai on Instagram
On a dreary Monday, our eyes were drawn to the artwork on artist Rucha Limaye's Instagram. The artist's recent visit to the Kaas Valley in Satara inspired her latest canvas. "My uncle lives in Satara, so I had visited him for a short holiday. One of the main attractions was going to the Kaas Plateau, and live-painting the flowers," she described. While the flowers were beautiful, Limaye's eyes were drawn to the clouds. "The clouds kept changing the landscape, and I felt as if I was in a dream," she gushed.
