The city — sliced, diced and served with a dash of sauce
Who’s Wai Knot?
There’s good news for fans of one of India’s favourite children’s publications, Tinkle. It will now turn into a fornightly, its editor Rajani Thindiath told this diarist yesterday.
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“Our readers have been demanding more stories and wish to read the magazine more often. The team was happy to go fortnightly, since we are returning to our roots — it started as a fortnightly. She shared that this also gave them the flexibility to explore stories and characters better.” Add to this, readers can look out for a new character series called Wai Knot, which appears in the first fortnightly issue.
The 10-year-old Bengaluru boy follows the wisdom, “Do not ask why, ask Why Not?” He was created in response to today’s generation that doesn’t take ‘no’ for an answer from authority, she adds, telling us that Wai Knot is among those kids who have access to heaps of information via new media, whetting their desire to know more, and keep their parents and teachers on their toes. The series is written by Sean D’Mello and illustrated by Vineet Nair. We can see Uncle Pai break into a broad smile from the heavens.
A rockin’ good time
Pic/Satej Shinde
Singers and music artistes Anusha Mani, Shalmali Kholgade and Akasa Singh crack up at a promotional event held last evening to announce their newly formed rock band.
Say hello to the Sea Urchin
A special guest is vying for your attention with crabs, prawns and apna bombil. It’s the rare delicacy, Sea Urchin, sourced all the way from Hokkaido (the northernmost of Japan’s main islands), which will be available only on the menu of Lower Parel’s Japanese fine-dine Yuuka till tomorrow.
Uni Nigiri
The chefs will serve Nama (fresh) Uni, the edible part of the spiky creature, in two forms — the classic sashimi or as a sushi portion. Often dubbed as the ‘foie gras of the East’, the creamy and rich Uni offers a light, sweet and somewhat briny flavour. The dishes will set you back by R1,250 plus taxes. But for those who may not be hopping om to a flight to Tokyo any time soon, isn’t it a sweet deal?
Like father, like son
They’ve jammed together in the past, and we’ve loved every moment of it.
Pic/Shadab Khan
Tuesday night witnessed a similar session between father and son Shankar (right) and Siddharth Mahadevan (left) for a concert that was held to celebrate exceptional father-son duos. Vikku Vinayakram and son V Selvaganesh, as well as Taufiq and son, Shikhar Qureshi were part of this unique musical adventure.
Here, there, elsewhere
When we think virtual reality, the first thing that crops up are computer games or sci-fi cinema that add the extra power to storytelling. But Cost of Coal, released by Anand Gandhi’s newly launched company Memesys Culture Lab, breaks that barrier by becoming the first virtual reality documentary.
Anand Gandhi (seated, in blue shirt) and team
It will be the first of a series that they plan to release as part of its mixed reality magazine ElseVR (pronounced elsewhere). To be published online as a quarterly, the magazine will feature essays and stories with prose and film with the intimacy of virtual reality.
A poster of the film
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