<h2>Starry starry night</h2>
<p>Firecrackers light up the sky as people celebrate Diwali in Borivali West.&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Jazz notes from Madras</h2>
<p><img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2023/nov/Vasundhara_e.jpg" alt="Vasundhara Vee in performance. PIC COURTESY/INSTAGRAM" width="1280" height="720" /><br /><strong><em>Vasundhara Vee in performance. PIC COURTESY/INSTAGRAM</em></strong></p>
<p>After a 10-year stint of serving world jazz on a platter to aficionados in Chennai, <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/jazz-articles" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">jazz enthusiasts</a> Edison Prithviraj and Gavin D&rsquo;Souza, organisers of the Madras Jazz Festival, are set to bring the groove to Mumbai. The two-day festival, starting December &nbsp;9, will see artistes from France, Reunion Islands and Germany take the stage with homegrown artistes such as Vasundhara Vee and Shreya B. &ldquo;We are excited to bring our curation to a city that has a deep-rooted history with jazz. We hope people dance, groove and sing along,&rdquo; Prithviraj told this diarist.</p>
<h2>Letters to Jin</h2>
<p><img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2023/nov/Jin-BTS_e.jpg" alt="Jin of BTS. PIC COURTESY/INSTAGRAM" width="1280" height="720" /><br /><strong><em>Jin of BTS. PIC COURTESY/INSTAGRAM</em></strong></p>
<p>As the recent news of Jin receiving nearly 3,20,000 letters from ARMY (Adorable Representative MC for Youth) surfaces, Ayushre A Tari (below), founder of Mumbai BTS, recalls sending a letter to the eldest member of the world-famous boyband <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/bts-articles" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">BTS</a>, too. She thinks it&rsquo;s just that the character limit has been extended by The Camp, the app that allows Jin, who was admitted to South Korea&rsquo;s military last December, to receive letters from his fans. &ldquo;Previously, if you wished to write more, you&rsquo;d be required to subscribe to the app,&rdquo; she said, adding that she used another app, WeVerse, which is a popular choice among ARMY, to send the singer a letter. &ldquo;Here, Jin appears once in a blue moon to react to the letters he receives. We use The Camp, but only to track when he&rsquo;ll be back. This December, he will complete 12 months in military,&rdquo; she said excitedly.</p>
<h2>Infinity for Rama</h2>
<p><img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2023/nov/Illustrator-3_e.jpg" alt="Jatayu tries to rescue Sita. Illustration/Ajinkya Bhasme" width="1280" height="720" /><br /><strong><em>Jatayu tries to rescue Sita. Illustration/Ajinkya Bhasme</em></strong></p>
<p>Illustrator and author Ajinkya Bhasme&rsquo;s recent infinity illustration, that features the Indian epic The Ramayana in one infinite loop of artworks, is a hat tip to the timeless tales of Rama&rsquo;s return to Ayodhya.</p>
<p><img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2023/nov/Ajinkya-Bhasme_e.jpg" alt="" width="1280" height="720" /></p>
<p>&ldquo;This Diwali, I wanted to use social media to promote such engaging Indian scriptures that make for wonderful literature among the youth using an entertaining yet educative approach,&rdquo; Bhasme said. He took nearly 60 hours to complete the illustration that begins and ends with Lord Rama&rsquo;s return.</p>
<h2>Sounds like poetry</h2>
<p><img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2023/nov/Mask-yo_e.jpg" alt="PIC COURTESY/Saranya subramaniam" width="1280" height="720" /><br /><strong><em>PIC COURTESY/Saranya Subramaniam</em></strong></p>
<p>In a first for <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/md-search/dossier#gsc.tab=0&amp;gsc.q=dossier&amp;gsc.sort=" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Bombay Poetry Crawl</a>, the community for poem lovers will give poetry a flow that is free of paper in its three-hour workshop at Method in Kala Ghoda this Sunday. &ldquo;My aim is to subvert poetry, and return to expressing poetry not just on paper but any surface like match stick, dried leaves, face masks (above), and even jewellery,&rdquo; founder of the poetry community Saranya Subramaniam said, adding that the practise of writing across surfaces is a different art form by itself.</p>

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