Creative activity for Kids

On Thursday at 7pm, while people enjoyed to the heavy rock band of ‘Shor bazaar’,




there were tiny tots joining dots and coloring the doodles of animals of extinct species outside the children’s park at Carter road.

On Normal days I often see these kids (some of them regulars) come to this park with their grannies or nannies and enjoy on the swing or on park furniture, but during this ‘Bandra Festival’ they had one more activity.

The children helped themselves from the boxes of colored chalks and enjoyed what they like best…coloring and scribbling.

Bandra Has A Heart

‘Celebrate Bandra’ is not just the celebration of art, culture and entertainment, it is also for creating opportunities to create better lives for less fortunate. Yeah…Bandra has a heart

As I walked down the promenade, I saw this bicycle displayed on a table. No, this bicycle was not for sale.

On looking closer, there was another poster next to this bicycle.

This is the bicycle project, where you can donate the bicycles that are of no use to you. They will repair it, bring it in a working condition and donate it to less fortunate in the rural area, to make the life easier for people who have no easy access to transport.

In Mumbai, we live in style, we take an auto even for a smaller distance, but in rural area, there are no such facilities and they have to walk to their destination. With easy and cheaper transport such as bicycles it will be lot easier for them to travel to a longer distance and avail of better opportunities such as education and jobs

For those who have no old bicycles to donate but have a very big heart and lots of money, then he can buy a new bicycle na……

Try it …it might make you feel goooooooooood!!!!

Art Installations at Carter Road in Bandra

As I walked down the Carter Road Promenade, I feasted my eyes on the various art work displayed on my path. ‘Going Green’ being the theme of this festival, the art work displayed at the promenade sent across this message. One of the art work that was truly amazing was the stuffed hands displayed like dried fish at the shore. When I asked the artists what message did she want to sent across, she said that these are the hands of the people who have the responsibility of taking care of the environment.

Further up, there were rows of cylinders made of used plastic glasses and stuffed with colorful pictures, that created a beautiful curtain effect, the artist explained that everything that we use could be converted into a art instead of throwing it in the waste and causing environment disaster.

Used bottles can be re-used

Waste paper can also be creatively used to make innovative art work.

This year ‘Celebrate Bandra’ sends across this message that every citizen should say ‘No to the Plastic bags’ and we, as a true Bandraite, could take the first initiative to make Bandra plastic free.

Classical Dance Performance at Carter Road Amphitheatre

Dancing requires concentration, poise and talent and the performers at Carter Road Amphitheater (at Bandra Festival) had just that.

The show started with performance by the ‘Victroy Art Foundation’, a dance on environment by street children.

This was followed by series of Odissi dances by the group trained by Jhelum Parajape (a Bandra resident) who has won several awards including ‘Mahari Award 2005’ an award, that is given to a professional solo Odissi dancer of national or international repute for outstanding contribution in the field of Odissi dance.

This was followed by Bharata Natyam, a beautiful performance by Nandini Ashok’s troupe.

The show ended with Kathak dance by Chaya Khanavate’s troupe.

It was a spectacular show and I really enjoyed it a lot and the good news is that I can watch it again if I
wish to, since all the shows will be repeated at different venues like amphitheatre at Bandstand and at Bandra Reclamation.

Cooking demonstration at 'Bandra Festival'

I hardly ever use wine in my cooking, but this sounded interesting, so me and my family headed towards the restaurant to see the chef demonstrate a pasta dish.

He had marinated chicken and while we waited for the seats to be occupied he informed us about the use of white and red wine in food.

He shallow fried the marinated (lime juice, salt, pepper and parsley) chicken in butter and wine and kept aside.

He next stir fried the veggies (onions, garlic, green- red-yellow pepper, capers, shallots, shredded cabbage, broccoli, olives) added garlic, salt pepper and a dash of wine and then transferred these stir fired veggies in another dish

Finally he stir fried garlic and onion in butter, added shredded basil leaves, parsley, peppers, white wine, white sauce, little water, pasta, salt capers and olive and wee bit more of white sauce.

In a hot sizzling plate, he place blanched cabbage leaves, arrange fried veggies, added shallow fried chicken and pasta and got it sizzling by adding a chunk of butter

Yuummm! It was sooooooooo good!!!

Bandra Wine Festival

After the rain, the days are cooler and to spend Sunday morning at D’Monte Park, where ‘Celebrate Bandra’ had launched the wine tasting festival was quite inviting.

We bought Rs50 entrance coupon and Rs500 wine tasting kit that contained one wine glass and a booklet of coupons for tasting wine

There were various stalls of different brands and we stopped at every stall to taste the wine.

I started to get tipsy, cause I am not used to drinking too much wine,

So I decided to sit down under the shade of a tree to enjoy the instrumental music that was quite soothing.

There was a row of food stalls selling delicious food; we patronized all four food stalls, trying out the specialty from each stall.

It was a wonderful afternoon and everybody present seemed to enjoy it too.

Bandra Parade

The festival started today, and the big procession was there on the Bandra streets

“Save our Earth” the message was loud and clear as the procession marched with cheer and joy, waving flags.

They emerged from the gates of San Stanislaus school; walked through Bandstand right up to Bandra Fort.

People dressed in colorful fancy clothes, dancing through street and distributing gifts to the people on the street.