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Quickstep Salsa started by "The Salsa Guru" Shri Anand Majumdar are holding up Salsa Classes every Sundays from 23rd August 2009 onwards from 5pm to 7pm in Powai at
Planet Maxx,
154 ,Powai Plaza,
Opp Pizza Hut,
Hiranandani Gardens,
Powai, Mumbai – 400076
Single Entries are permitted and you can join in on any Sundays in between too.
Another Batch will be started on every Saturdays 5pm to 7pm.

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Hi Friends, I’m back! This week I have an easy assignment, but it’s great fun. Last time I signed off saying we’ll make another lamp. Hey, let’s keep that for later. Let us not overdose on lamps and other lighted objects!

So I was on a fruit and fruit juice diet, it being summer and all. I just can’t seem to eat anything cooked. Or spicy. Can you? Can anybody? And so I drank juices to my heart’s content. Fresh juices and packed juices. And guess what, I now find myself saddled with so many TETRA PAKS!!!

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Do you know what goes into making a Tetra Pak?

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Summertime means long days of sunshine, tall glasses of chilled nimbupani, and the shrieks of kids playing all afternoon- thanks to vacations. Summer is a great time for kids but a bit of a bother for parents- mommies especially. “How does one keep the brats busy and out of trouble, and out of my hair!” is the question uppermost in every mom’s mind.

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Pro Guitar Academy
Address:
The Forest Club, Hiranandani Gardens, Near Reliance Web World,
Powai, Mumbai – 400 076
Directions: As you go from D-Mart towards Papa John’s Pizza take a left from the roundabout. Take a right after the Reliance Web World. You will pass by the Lake Castle Building on your left and after that you have The Forest Club (also having the Swimming pool)
Contact Nos. 25229179  |   9819755116   |    9819860338
Saturday Mornings: 9:15 – 11am, 11am – 12:45pm

There was a very enthusiastic participation for this morning's Mumbai Bird Club's BirdWalk at the campus of Indian Institute of Technology, Powai. Our passionate birder, S…, led us through the leafy campus and along the lake for a very enjoyable birding lasting over three and half hours. It was also heartening to see so many young children in the group today.

Before arriving at the lake, Shailaja showed us through the campus; the highlight of this walk being a pair of Oriental Magpie Robins at almost fifty metres interval numbering to a minimum of over fifteen pairs, including seeing many nests, along the length of our walk. They seem to be extremely successful breeders in the campus here and extremely territorial presently with one of them 'fighting' its own reflections in the glass covered building of the Management School !

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Posted on July 19, 2008 by krishnarao

[Story I wrote for DNA] More pics on Zooomr

Angling is a sport of patience

Driving through Powai is an exercise in patience at the best of times — the twirling dust, black, due to the pollution, vehicles vying for every inch of open space on the road, and people filtering through this mess covering their faces with handkerchiefs. 

Just a few metres away, in the waters of Powai lake, the going, perhaps, is even slower; but in an entirely different and in a very, very good way. Ignore the vehicular sounds, lower your gaze from the skyline that’s marked by fancy buildings, and you’d almost forget this is Mumbai. 

For anglers at the Powai lake this is very easy — you could also say it is necessary. Thin, bright and straw-like, the peacock feathers keep bobbing in the water mysteriously. Follow the rod it is attached to and you will find yourself peering into eyes that are intent, and alert. For when the peacock feather dips into the water, it indicates that a fish is touching the line. The angler rips the line hoping he will hook the fish. 

“This is what you wait for — hours together, and sometimes for days. The feeling you get when you hook a fish is incomparable,” says MA Ghani joint secretary of the Maharashtra State Angling Association, and an avid angler for more than 30 years.

But that’s only the start. The fish puts up a mighty struggle before it is “landed”. “The strength of the fish in water is unbelievable,” says Ghani. A big fish can empty the whole line out. The trick is to tire the fish. Let it swim for a bit, and then roll the line back. Judgment comes with experience. Get it closer to you, slowly, and then net it. 

The action lasts just a few minutes, but the thrill lasts several hours.

But anglers spend most of their time sitting calmly in machans. Patience, after all, is a key ingredient in angling. A hawk swoops to catch a fish, a water spider skirts on the water, a fish splashes somewhere — “You tell me… where in Mumbai can you see such things? Can you imagine a place like this in any other major city? Just sitting over here is enough to relax,” says AH Husaini, secretary, MSAA, who prefers to spend 36 hours of his weekend by the lake. 

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Sitting in the machan, you feel as light as the breeze, as pure as the air you‘re breathing. Watching the water’s gentle rhythmic movement, you’d almost think that it’s not the water, but the machan that’s moving: The oneness with nature is complete. And Husaini’s point is driven home: Is this really Mumbai?

There’s a shout some distance away. Someone has hooked a fish. As we row towards the other machan, I can see Zeeshan Ahmed standing at the edge of this boat. His line is vibrating due to an unknown force in the waters below. The fish is putting up a good fight. “It is a 3kg fish,” says the experienced Ghani even though the fish hasn’t yet surfaced. Ahmed finally pulls the fish closer and nets it. As Ghani helps him unhook the line, Ahmed can’t stop smiling: “I’m on top of the world.”

Ahmed who has been angling for four years is relatively a beginner. But the more experienced members at the lake haven’t yet caught anything for the day. Angling doesn’t work by such rules. 

“Sometimes it is beginners luck,” says Husaini. And with a smile he adds, “It’s great to see the excitement when they catch a fish. But actually it is the beginners who get trapped. Anglers know that it is not the fish that is hooked, but the person at the other end of the rod who is hooked.”

The good anglers at MSAA were kind enough to allow me to catch a fish

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Link: Bollywood Labs: acting classes.

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A group of highly talented film and theatre personalities of entertainment industry, situated at 106, Crystel Plaza, Raheja vihar near chandivli studio, powai, Mumbai-72is going to launch its Ist. Batch of production oriented three months condensed course of film and theatre acting. Under the guidance of Prof. Udai Shanker “Pani” FTII,PUNE. The syllabus of the academy is as follows:- Syllabus:- Ist month: – ACTING:- basic performance techniques, yoga, martial arts, aerobics, movements, voice, speech and breathing exercises, voice control which includes humming, pitch and volume control of vocal cords. IMPROVISATIONS AN

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