Mumbai Diary: Friday Dossier

Stage set for puppetsDid you know that leather shadow puppets which have been used in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh for centuries now are also present in other Asian countries such as Indonesia or Cambodia Or that similar puppetry techniques are used in different countries with different narratives These are some of the insights that puppet theatre educator Anurupa Roy will share at a talk curated by CSMVS this Saturday ldquoWe will explore the history of puppet theatre and different traditions across the country which vary in terms of the puppetsrsquo size and how they are manipulatedrdquo shared Joyoti Roy headmarketing at CSMVS Attend the talk on YouTube CSMVSMumbaiBicycles and Bohri fareMunaf KapadiaWhen founder of The Bohri Kitchen TBK Munaf Kapadia was starting out chef Ranveer Brar had shared an interesting analogy with him This went on to become the title of one of the chapters of his book How I Quit Google To Sell Samosas ldquoThe chapter was titled lsquoWhen Ranveer compared TBK to a bicyclersquo What he had basically said was that one of the pedals of TBK was branding and the second was operations Itrsquos only when both pedals are in tandem that the cycle moves forwardrdquo Kapadia told this diarist That is a conversation the duo is going to build on today during an Instagram live chat where they discuss chasing dreams The session promises a host of interesting suggestions for budding entrepreneurs shared Kapadia To pick up some tips from the pros head to crosswordbookstores or harpercollinsin on Instagram at 6 pm todayRanveer BrarWhen plastic wastes build a happy homeThe shelter for strays that members of Urvari built using compacted plastic bricksKeeping with the theme of NoPlasticJuly Navi Mumbaibased environmental organisation Urvari has created an innovative shelter for strays using plastic waste The organisation which was founded by 18yearolds Vasundhara Gupte and Khushi Shah put out calls on social media to collect plastic waste from across the city and converted these into ecobricks ldquoDuring the rains we observed that stray dogs are among the hardest hit We decided to build shelters using ecobricks made from plastic bottles stuffed with compacted plastic wasterdquo said Gupte The shelter is located at Vashi Gupte insists that although timeconsuming converting plastic waste into bricks isnrsquot difficult ldquoWe want this to become a sustainable system where people make bricks in their daily lives with the waste produced in their homesrdquo she addedDripping informationThe monsoon brings with it overcast skies moody musings and a whole new array of seasonal delicacies Thatrsquos what filmmaker Shubhra Chatterji will explore in the next edition of her monthly series History On A Plate ldquoThis will be a celebration of Mughal Hindustan and how it would blossom into a spectacle of dance song and picnics when the monsoon rolled inrdquo Chatterji told us The session will be peppered with anecdotes stories and poetry Visithistorywali on Instagram this SaturdaySkilled for changeA recent survey conducted in anticipation of World Youth Skills Day on July 15 has found that young Indians have been learning new skills to engage themselves through the past year Titled Little Things We Do the survey found that 44 per cent of Indians participated in activities to support the lesser privileged while 2315 per cent of Gen Z explored their creative side by making content for social media While Gen X and Z were more focused on altruism more millennials preferred to focus their efforts on environmental conservation