After HC red signal, Thackeray mulls another relocation for Metro car shed
Admitting the Centre’s plea that the land in question was an erstwhile salt pan land, which belonged to it, and taking claims of two private parties on record, the HC had also rapped the state bureaucracy for its “careless” approach. December 18, 2020 4:01:34 am
Uddhav Thackeray. (File)
In the wake of the Bombay High Court’s stay on the Mumbai Metro III car shed project, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has asked officials to explore whether alternative locations are available for its relocation.
Sources said that one of the options being examined is a state-owned land parcel in the Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) in Mumbai, which has been earmarked for the Centre’s flagship Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed corridor project, popularly known as the bullet train project.
Astad Deboo could shock tradition, and yet remain open to collaborations
Astad Deboo could break free of the stage, and do a tandav on the Great Wall of China. He was a citizen of the world, and he brought it home. Updated: December 14, 2020 8:58:00 am
At the drop of the hat, he would dance in people’s homes, pubs and streets. He continued to do that even later. (Illustration by C R Sasikumar)
We were to meet in Navsari in 2019. I was pottering about in Dandi-Bardoli. Astad Deboo had to attend a wedding: “My second cousin’s daughter who is also getting married to my second cousin. One from my father’s side and the other one from my mother’s side.” Astad hadn’t been to Navsari, his birthplace, in ages. It is my “home”, the modern Marco Polo used to say with a chuckle. His father worked with the Tatas. And so, he was initiated into dance education at the age of six in the steel town of Jamshedpur. The teacher taught Kathak, so