meeting in prabhadevi

the av room at academy of architecture is a sunk space with a marble floor, red and white plastic chairs and an exhibition area with photographs taken by students on display. air conditioning is a good thing. our meeting for dharavi was moved to this location yesterday because it was easily accessible to all. paul, namrata, neha and me carried the krvia torch and were, as usual, the over represented. it was long meeting discussing numbers, strategies and follow-ups. the publishing of the dharavi article in ht and times had hopefully shaken a few things. what- we don’t know as yet. but the fact that there is an alternative , much more sensitive possibility itself must have been a shock- along with the people who stood behind it.

after the meeting we were ravenous and stopped over at a fancy juice center / udupi for strawberry milk shake and pav bhaji. at home, john was playing badminton on the re-lit court while the 'xerox boys'- our local wanna be rock band with bhavya as lead singer, were hanging around on the benches watching. they plan to record their 14 songs and shyam and me offered unflinching support and the court for a saturday jam session or a concert.