Mumbai Diary: Sunday Dossier

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Rush hour is back

You know the lockdown has lifted when as many people are outside a BEST bus as inside. Women commuters catch a bus in Dadar on Saturday

Study heritage at IIM Bangalore

Cultre, which has been providing online and offline solutions to improve access to heritage information and education, has now partnered with IIM Bangalore to offer a new course titled, Arts and Culture: Towards a new management paradigm. The arts, culture, and heritage have usually been approached from the historical, legal, aesthetic and institutional perspectives. The goal of this course, its team members say, is to provide insights on the management dimensions of arts, culture, and heritage for professionals and students, who desire to specialise in this domain. "In a distributed world artistes need managers who can run their affairs without patronage. This is point behind the course," says Professor Damodaran A of IIM Bangalore, who has floated the course. The course, which kick-starts from August 26, will continue for five weeks. The topics will include economics of culture and heritage, and the global policy landscape for decision making.

Apple sings to an Indian tune

Mumbai's export to LA, singer-songwriter Natania Lalwani, has added another feather to her cap. Her song, Fitness, has been featured in an Apple commercial. When we spoke to Lalwani, she said, "I wrote Fitness with Ethan Roberts at the beginning of lockdown. It's about motivation and about making yourself do things that get the endorphins going." That certainly could be the need of the hour, and the commercial has been going viral. Lalwani shared on Instagram how she had put the career goal on her bucket list many years ago, and it seemed like it has manifested into reality.

For a better sporting tomorrow for the youth

Athletes from the CJ Goveas Foundation athletic programme in Talasari enjoying their post-training diet of milk, bananas and eggs

The Olympic Games have driven home the point yet again: For India to get better in the sporting sphere, youth is where you need to invest to produce champions. A small organisation formed just before the pandemic struck last March, is doing its bit to promote sports and their enterprise needs to be lauded. Kids receive athletic training from reputed coach Ian Dexter Ladbrooke and the sporting diet aspect is never ignored. Hopefully some day, credit for the emergence of successful athletes can be apportioned to the CJ Goveas Foundation. There is a challenge, there is hope.

Sweets to keep celebrities fit

Those of us who crave meetha after a meal might have often wondered how to break this habit. But baker Juhi Pahwa, founder of Better Binge, has come up with a way around it: 85 calorie cupcakes. Pahwa, who caters to the likes of Katrina Kaif, Jacqueline Fernandes, Jahnvi Kapoor and Rajkumar Rao, says she created this because a lot of her celeb clients wanted a low-cal sweet for their 4 pm cravings.

"For instance, Bhavna Pandey loves her cupcakes and likes to indulge in one every day. These jowar and Belgian chocolate cupcakes are portion controlled to 85 calories. They are made with natural sugars and a vegan chocolate ganache. It comes in a box of nine and lasts upto eight days in the refrigerator. They come in a variety of toppings like peanut butter, cookie butter and dark chocolate hazelnut, all homemade."

For love of Goa's heritage homes

Lester Silveira

Architect Lester Silveira who has been archiving Goa's rich architectural heritage through photography, and is part of the Goa Collective, which works towards better public and urban spaces in the state, is starting a series called Heritage at Risk. Launched in collaboration with citizen's initiative Amche Mollem, the series, which begins next week on their Instagram page (@mymollem.goa), will take a deeper look at the built heritage of Goa that is currently threatened by the South Western Railways' prospective double-tracking project. It will take people through the impacts of the railway line on Goa's unique heritage homes in the Mormugao-Vasco belt. "These homes are already suffering as a result of the existing track. Can they withstand another, with more trains and vibrations?" asks Silveira, who says that the series will also reflect on life along the railway line.