Mumbai Diary: Saturday Dossier

Beats for BappaYoung dhol tasha enthusiasts polish their skills at BKC on Friday as the city prepares for Ganesh ChaturthiWine and moreHerersquos some good news for tipplers The city has got an experience centre for wine lovers and enthusiasts with the launch of the Wine Park store in Andheri Founder Vishal Kadakia inset told this diarist that the experience centre is an extension of their original venture of selling fine wines from across the globe to fivestars and restaurants in IndialdquoWe deal with small familyowned producers making smallbatch boutique wines After the pandemic hit we integrated online Then we began thinking why not look at an experience centre because wine is a very living entity you need to feel smell and touch it So thatrsquos how this came aboutrdquo he shared adding ldquoWersquore focused on people coming in experiencing the wines the cosy space and learning Wersquod like to curate some events and masterclassesrdquo Cheers to that A song and dance about East IndiansThe East Indian community not just from India but also from Oman and New Zealand will come together tomorrow for a competition that celebrates its traditional music Mumbaibased Elvis Multimedia group is organising it and founder Nelson Patel shared that there are three categories mdash solo duet and trio ldquoWe selected 35 people after 71 auditionedrdquo he added The prize money is Rs 10000 for the winners in each category and you can log on to Elvis Multimediarsquos YouTube channel to celebrate the music of a community that is an integral part of the cityrsquos social fabricWhat an ideaComedian Atul Khatri is wearing his vaccine certificate on his sleeve quite literally Tired of having to constantly furnish it at airports and hotels where it is mandatory he recently created a special shirt that has the certificate imprinted on it so that he can bypass the process of having to pull it out constantly while checking in ldquoEven the certificate started tearing and then I thought about this Tshirt There are lots of websites online where you can get whatever you want printed on your Tshirtrdquo Khatri said about what we feel is a smart moveAn appt tool for home chefsldquoDuring the last lockdown we got a lot of phone calls from people asking us about where they could order food from because they canrsquot even chop an onion And I realised that information online about cooking is available but itrsquos all in scattered parts whether itrsquos about chopping onions or getting to know the basics of cooking or preparing different dishesrdquo celebrity chef Ajay Chopra told this diarist adding that this dilemma gave birth to his idea for Cook Academy Itrsquos an app for amateur cooks where they can pick up all sorts of tips to get them started in the kitchen There is a section called lsquoKa kha garsquo where the process of home cooking is made simpler with additional features like international cooking in the pipeline ldquoThere is also an intermediate section called lsquoBadte rahorsquo and an advanced section called lsquoCooking ustadrsquo The idea is that people who are homebound should be able to learn cooking in its totalityrdquo Chopra shared Sounds useful Head to Google Playstore to download the appA postcard for solidarityThere were 16 people jailed in the Bhima Koregaon case from 2018 That number has now been reduced to 15 after Fr Stan Swamy passed away recently They are languishing in jail as undertrials and international organisation InSAF India has started an initiative where they are calling on concerned citizens to send postcards to these jailed activists in order to show their support Those who wish to send a message of solidarity to people including Sudha Bharadwaj and Shoma Sen in pic can visit academicfreedomindiacom ldquoThe initiative is also a signal to the authorities that there are people out there who disapprove of the use of unconstitutional laws such as UAPA and sedition laws to suppress dissentrdquo shared InSAF India member Sruti B