Mumbai Diary: Sunday Dossier

Summer DhulaiThe statue of King Edward VII at Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Udyan in Byculla gets a thorough wash on a hot Saturday afternoonBambai ki cutting chaiWho knew that the street culture of Mumbai poured in a cupmdashcityrsquos cutting chaimdashwould find a fan all the way in Australia Peter Truswell the new Australian Consul General to Mumbai isnrsquot shy to reveal his love for Indian tea Speaking to this diarist Truswell says ldquoI am keen to deepen Australiarsquos relationship with western India across sectors Another reason to be pleased to be based in Mumbai as a keen tea drinker is the excellent quality of Indian tea I am excited to try the delicious cutting chai of MumbairdquoStudents unite to donate padsChhitra SubramaniamAfter creating waves with their menstrual hygiene programme Mumbaibased collective Pad Squad has teamed up with Internashala a recruitment and training platform by Sarvesh Agrawal The UniteForHer campaign has hundreds of interns from TierI and TierII cities of India participating and working towards spreading awareness on the subject Akarshika Srivastava said while she was in Varanasi women were initially reluctant to accept padsThe students are from Tier1 and Tier2 cities and will spread the campaign in their hometownsldquoAfter interacting with more locals we managed to donate 80 pads Later a young boy came running after me and said lsquoDidi humko bhi de do hamari bhi behen hai ghar persquo That is when I felt inexplicable satisfaction and gave him a packet of 20 padsrdquo Chhitra Subramaniam cofounder of Pad Squad said ldquoWe are excited to have such young passionate volunteers joining the movement Every action is important and a collective action sparks changerdquoThe man they call SKYSuryakumar YadavSuryakumar Yadav Indiarsquos latest T20 cricket star has been christened SKY Why should the fact that Suryakumar is one word not Surya Kumar get in the way of a catchy acronym ask some fans We concede and welcome Surya to the club of famous Mumbai cricketers who are referred to at times by their initialsmdashSMG Sunil Manohar Gavaskar SRT Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar DBV Dilip Balwant Vengsarkar and ALW the late Ajit Laxman Wadekar Then there are examples of cricketers with interesting acronyms MLA was the late Madhav Laxmanrao Apte And Dada wouldnrsquot mind if someone called him SCGmdash yes Sydney Cricket Ground mdashbut first Sourav Chandidas Ganguly An England captain and muchloved cricketer was MCC Marylebone Cricket Club Yes thatrsquos the old and famous institution which even today is responsible for the laws of cricket but we are referring to Ootacamundborn Michael Colin Cowdrey Meanwhile SKY is going to be used often while headlining Suryarsquos batting exploits And thatrsquos what we want more ofCelebrating the human mindActor and VJ Peeya Rai Choudhuri cofounder of Omaggio Goa has come up with her newest production Circadian with choreographer Tino Sanchez Circadian is a natural internal process that regulates the sleepwake cycle and repeats on each rotation of the earth Her show will reveal that this life can and will open up to its true potential once you accept and give in to its unruly ways ldquoWe all know the kind of battles we fought last year Circadian emerged from the uncertainty and loss of freedom that each one of us experienced And yet our human spirit has the uncanny ability to strive and look for joy and laughter The show will allow lsquoyoursquo to experience lsquoyourrsquo story on stagerdquo says ChoudhuriA Partition museum in Delhi soonIf all goes as planned the capital will have a Partition museum of its own Kishwar Desai author and chairperson of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Trust that set up the worldrsquos first Partition Museum at Town Hall Amritsar recently took to social media to announce that she has been asked to set up a similar museum at Dara Shikoh Library building in New Delhi ldquoThis is supposed to be ready by August 15 next year to mark 75 years since Independence A part of the building is currently being restored and should be ready for us by end of this month So we are hard at workrdquo says Desai The Dara Shikoh Library is named after the son of Mughal emperor Shahjahan