sunday – thesis. olive

another thesis triumph for the school when at the international conference for humane habitat at rizvi tara and mayuri won 1^st and 3^rd prize. mayuri presented her beautiful and sensitive pascal maidan intervention with the sophisticated sections and the gorgeous drawings. tara had designing this magical and strange project in the mahim nature park at dharavi. i could not finish seeing her presentation as half way through kalpit felt very ill. with a bad case of acidity and anxiety we took him first to tara’s house close by and then holy family hospital. he was fine soon but had us worried for a while.

later mukul and me ditched the dinner at rizvi to go out to 'olive' in bandra. the “décor” was very casual cool staying away from the over designery stuff where every corner is detailed to death- and looks tacky in 6 months. a large lamp lit courtyard overlooked by glass windows, packed with all the filmy types and firangis of the suburbs; but also with food where the duck, the bonnet desert and the wine made you remember that taste is actually also about flavor.