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1. Jerry , Pinto

Citizen Gallery The Gandhys of Chemould and the Birth of Modern Art in Bombay

Now a byword in the art world, the story of Gallery Chemould begins in the 1940s when Kekoo Gandhy decided to set up a picture-framing store on Princess Street. To this store, Chemould Frames, came the likes of K.H. Ara, M.F. Husain, S.H. Raza, F.N. Souza, and others who called themselves the Progressive Artists Group. Husain sold his first canvas from that very window. Kekoo Gandhy brought in the few rich buyers there were in those days including the scientist Homi Bhabha and the industrialist Naval Tata. In the 1960s, the manager of the Jehangir Art Gallery invited his friends Kekoo and Khorshed to start an art gallery in an empty space on the first floor. On 16 September 1963, Gallery Chemould opened its doors to the world with an exhibition of paintings by K.K. Hebbar, V.S. Gaitonde, Laxman Pai and several others from the growing community of Indian painters. It became the training ground for the eyes of the city. Eventually Chemould moved to an expansive new space: Chemould Prescott Road, now run by their daughter, Shireen Jungalwala. The gallery s new avatar continues to champion modern art with a range of brilliant artists from Vivan Sundaram through Neelima Sheikh and Atul and Anju Dodiya, to Jitesh Kallat and Reena Saini-Kallat. Did Gallery Chemould play midwife to the Progressives? Can a gallery be a responsible citizen? Read on then.

1. Jerry , Pinto

A Good Life

Jerry Pinto is the author of Em and the Big Hoom (winner of the Hindu Literary Prize and the Crossword Book Award for Fiction) and Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb (winner of the National Award for the Best Book on Cinema).

1. Manik , Kotwal

Beyond The Higgs Boson

The morning of 4 July 2012 was one of excitement. It was the day when the discovery of ''Higgs boson'', the god particle, was announced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). For forty years, three generations of scientists and researchers had been trying to prove the existence of this particle and finally they were successful. A key figure in this discovery was Dr Ashutosh Kotwal, a co-recipient of the 2013 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize from the European Physical Society, who conducted world-leading research into the W boson, which helped predict the mass of the Higgs boson. Dr Kotwal''s measurement provided one of the most powerful tests of the Higgs boson theory. And, more recently in 2022, he led a team of 400 scientists to publish the world''s best measurement of the W boson mass, which became the year''s most-cited research paper in physics and astronomy worldwide.

1. Damodar , Mauzo

Boy, Unloved

In a sleepy village in Goa, a child grows up in a house whose windows arenever opened. The door is often locked as well, and no visitors ever comeby to meet the family. Vipin Parob has a strange and solitary childhood,dominated by his overbearing and cruel father. In this home, Vipin grows upfriendless, till he begins to read voraciously. Now Vipin knows more about theworld-its mysteries and cruelties, its wonder and beauty. What he doesn'tget to know, is love.Vipin steps into high school and becomes a reluctant friend to two girls-Chitra and Fatima. Chitra sees the laughter hidden deep within him. Fatimabrings chaos and joy with her, and into Vipin's life. And slowly he finds hehas an identity separate from his cold and unloving family. But can he everovercome the loneliness that has seeped into him? When the time comes, willhe know how to give and receive love?From the acclaimed Jnanpith Award-winning novelist, comes a work ofunflinching honesty and startling truths. Filled with unforgettable characterswritten from a depth of understanding, this translation by Jerry Pinto throbswith life in all its bewildering glory.

1. Narayan , Surve

In That Mill, I Too Was Forged

Abandoned soon after birth, Narayan Gangaram Surve (1926-2010) wasbrought up by mill workers, but left to fend for himself once again at the ageof twelve in the chawls of Mumbai. He grew up in the streets of the big city,taught himself to read and write-working as doffer boy in a textile mill, asweeper, a peon-and became a school teacher and a celebrated revolutionarypoet. An abiding allegiance to the workers' movement was the thread that ranthrough his extraordinary journey. His poetry was thus as much ammunition tofight the good fight as it was art. It evolved a new idiom, written in the Marathispoken on the streets, freely borrowing words from Hindi or English, unafraidto break literary conventions upheld by the cultured elite. As he puts it, thepeople were 'my holy books, my scriptures, my gurus'.Surve makes no pretence to objectivity. His verse is unostentatious, unabashedlyso. He wants to write about, and for, the masses. There's no attempt to idealizethem, however-to gloss over the ugliness of life-for he is one of them. Hissubjects let their guard down and speak their minds. Activists crack jokes whileputting up posters, a sex worker hustles her client, and a butcher remembershow he lost his leg in a riot trying to save a woman from his co-religionists.The mill worker and farmer know exactly who oppresses them; there is angerin them. For all the misery we come across, though, these are not poems ofdespair, but, instead, of a dogged optimism.Jerry Pinto renders a broad selection of Surve's poetry into colourful yeteffortless English verse, retaining both its raw energy and immediacy, and theessence of its unyielding commitment to a better future.

Maya Nagari

'You cannot catch a city in words. You cannot catch a city at all,' write the editorsof this anthology. So how do you get the spirit of India's great metropolis, theMaya Nagari, the city of dreams, between the covers of a book? Shanta Gokhaleand Jerry Pinto decide to bring together their favourite short stories about thecity they call home, and hope that a narrative will emerge. And it does-a rich,varied, vibrant portrait of the republic that goes by many names-Bombay,Mumbai, Momoi, Bambai and many others.In the twenty-one stories of this collection, there is the city that labours in themills and streets, and the city that sips and nibbles in five-star lounges; the cityof Ganapati and Haji Malang and the Virgin Mary; the city that is a sea of peopleand speaks at least a dozen languages. There are stories translated from Marathi,Urdu, Gujarati, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, and stories written originallyin English. Among the writers are legends and new voices-Baburao Bagul,Ismat Chughtai, Pu La Deshpande, Urmila Pawar, Mohan Rakesh,Saadat Hasan Manto, Ambai, Jayant Kaikini, Bhupen Khakhar, CyrusMistry, Vilas Sarang, Tejaswini Apte-Rahm and Anuradha Kumar.Maya Nagari is a majestic book on a majestic city. It will be read and cherished foryears.