02 January,2022 07:13 AM IST | Mumbai | Team SMD
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In a hopeful act of carefree abandon, two young girls run after seagulls at Dadar Chowpatty on the first morning of 2022.
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In some good news for book lovers, CMYK has opened a new branch at Box Park in Mandwa jetty near Alibaug. "The Box Park consists of a bunch of shipping containers that have been retro-fitted to become retail outlets. Our friends Avani Raheja and Samir Gadhok of Burgundy Hospitality are running the Box Park and reached out to us to open a bookstore," shares Kapil Kapoor, director, Roli Books. "We considered it and thought it was a great idea considering the high footfalls at Mandwa jetty. Our bookstore is filled with weekend reads, children's books, cookbooks, and gift books," he added.
Pratichee Mohapatra
VIVA girl Pratichee Mohapatra has been doodling on social media and we love it. She used to regularly sketch as a child, she says, but as music took over, the art unwittingly got left behind. Around two months ago, Mohapatra was in Pune with her parents when a friend handed her a bagful of art supplies and urged her to return to her long-lost passion. "I sat down then and it just became an obsession," she says. She started customising works for friends and family and watching videos and following art accounts to learn different styles and techniques. "As a result, Facebook and Instagram are only suggesting art videos all the time now!" Pencil sketching, she says, has always been her first love but the work she has sharing online has been her ink art, which she has turned to as a creative outlet of late. "I have been doing this since school and didn't know that it had a name. A friend told me that it's called Zentangle. I have been combining it with acrylic paints, adding dashes of colour to give it a break from the monotony of pure ink," says the artist, who now also wants to learn to paint with watercolours.
Joe Root and Allan Border
The England cricket team go into Wednesday's fourth Test at Sydney with the Ashes already surrendered. A mid-series 0-3 scoreline has been witnessed before. But this time, the depths of despair seems deeper simply because most in the team don't look capable of competing. With due respect to the performers, the Aussies may have surprised themselves with this kind of success. The Age's columnist Greg Baum put England's loose grip on the Ashes in true perspective: "In more than 32 years, England have held them for barely 10. As soon as they come home, they scurry off again." Several teams (including Australia when the West Indies dominated world cricket) have whipped up a revival/consolation win in Sydney and if there is one cricket great skipper Joe Root can approach for some answers, it is Allan Border, AB to his mates. Tough-as-nails Border knows what's it like to be down for the count and he's around as commentator to have a chat. And having played for Essex, Border knows the English cricket mindset. Above all, he's the man, who in that great cricket writer Mike Coward's words, gave Australian cricket the kiss of life in the late 1980s. Go Joe!
If you've been to Assagao, a quiet inland village in Goa lined with elegant colonial villas, there's no way you could have missed Jamun. With its lovely purple signboard and flower adorned walls, the Indian restaurant has been drawing discerning patrons. The good news is that its owners are looking to open an outpost in Bandra. "Bandra was a no-brainer for us because we are confident that the concept will work well there. Moreover, Bandra doesn't have too many good Indian restaurants," says Rakshay Dhariwal, MD at Passcode Hospitality.
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The second edition of The Indies music awards was announced on Instagram on Thursday. These awards are for non-film music from India. Mumbai-based singer-songwriter Tejas was awarded best Pop Artist of the year for his single Lead - the first song from his seven-track album Outlast. The pop singer said how he wasn't expecting it because his management team filled out the form and he only found out that he won, when he was tagged and got a notification. "What I like about this award is that there is a pretty impressive jury that selects the winners," he says. The Mumbai-based musician feels that all artistes nominated are extremely talented and worthy to win. The jury had a mix of experienced musicians, music journalists and other people from the music business industry. Tejas feels that the independent scene has come a fairly long way where everyone is putting out extremely high-quality music and art. "I love that The Indies exist because it highlights the hard work independent artistes are doing, and being independent by the very nature means that you are part of a subculture and not mainstream." A few other winners from Mumbai are Saruabh Suman of the reggae/funk/SKA band The Fanculos, who is the bassist of the year, and Rahul Kanan, who is part of Mumbai-based prog sextet Protocol, and won the keyboardist of the year.
