<h2>Swoop and snack</h2>
<p>Two Black Kites aim to pick their meal from a swamp in <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/buzzfeed/article/viceroy-properties-celebrates-the-cultural-soul-of-mumbais-iconic-coastal-neighbourhood--versova--with-a-coffee-table-book-8700" rel="nofollow">Versova</a></p>
<h2>Perth calling</h2>
<p><img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2026/feb/Bucket-Hat-Cult_e.jpg" alt="Members of Bucket Hat Cult and Fem Blue cheering for their teams. Pics courtesy/bucket hat cult; @femblue1947" width="1280" height="720" /><br /><strong><em>Members of Bucket Hat Cult and Fem Blue cheering for their teams. Pics courtesy/bucket hat cult; @femblue1947</em></strong></p>
<p>Mumbai&rsquo;s women&rsquo;s cricket fan community, Bucket Hat Cult heads to Perth to cheer for India&rsquo;s women cricketers for their Test match against Australia from March 6 to 9. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll also join football fan community, Fem Blue for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup games for matches on March 4 and 7; for the latter games, we&rsquo;ll be in Stand S121, row A to C,&rdquo; Akshay Dutia, founding member, Bucket Hat Cult, revealed.&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Music gets tech-savvy</h2>
<p><img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2026/feb/Sling-shot_e.jpg" alt="A previous edition of the festival.  pic courtesy/@slingshot_festival" width="1280" height="720" /><br /><strong><em>A previous edition of the festival. Pic courtesy/@slingshot_festival</em></strong></p>
<p>Electronic music geeks are in for a treat next Saturday, with the popular Slingshot Festival of <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/lifestyle/culture/articles" rel="nofollow">Music </a>and Electronic Art making its India debut in the city. The tech-meets-music roster features special acts like MC Yallah from Uganda and German robotics engineer and musician Moritz Simon Geist. While we&rsquo;re all ears, we&rsquo;re not sure what to make of the festival being sponsored by an AI chatbot, Claude, amid rising debates around AI in art. As Bob Dylan aptly put it: The times, they are a-changin...</p>
<h2>Stitching the truth</h2>
<p><img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2026/feb/Stitched_e.jpg" alt="(Above, right) The stitched pieces with varying  readings of the AQI. pics courtesy/sia khandelwal" width="1280" height="720" /><br /><strong><em>The stitched pieces with varying readings of the AQI. Pics courtesy/Sia Khandelwal</em></strong></p>
<p>Those frustrated with Mumbai&rsquo;s poor Air Quality Index (AQI) will find a kindred spirit in Sia Khandelwal (below). The owner of a textile crafts studio named Silchi has been stitching the AQI into a canvas measuring 4x4, using data from the website, AirVisual. &ldquo;Living in Mumbai, air pollution is something we&rsquo;re constantly aware of, but something we normalise. I work with the day&rsquo;s average <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/mumbai-weather-updates-on-day-1-of-week-city-witnesses-partly-cloudy-skies-haze-23615753?entertainment-bollywood-news-breakingnews" rel="nofollow">AQI </a>for Mumbai. I&rsquo;m not sure what the end product is going to be, but right now, it&rsquo;s more about the process. It&rsquo;s a good way to spotlight the problem, because there is no other way to help solve it,&rdquo; she shared with this diarist.&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Booked by the Rupee</h2>
<p><img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2026/feb/Sarmaya-Arts_e.jpg" alt="Silver rupee of Italian  Somaliland, struck at the Royal Mint of Rome, in 1910" width="1280" height="720" /><br /><strong><em>Silver rupee of Italian Somaliland, struck at the Royal Mint of Rome, in 1910</em></strong></p>
<p>Sarmaya Arts Foundation is set to release a book on February 12 tracing the history of the Rupee, titled, Odyssey of the Rupee: From India to the World.</p>
<p><img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2026/feb/Paul-Abraham_e.jpg" alt="Paul Abraham. Pics courtesy/Sarmaya Arts Foundation" width="1280" height="720" /><br /><strong><em>Paul Abraham. Pics courtesy/Sarmaya Arts Foundation</em></strong></p>
<p>&ldquo;It contains a collection of essays about how the Rupee was minted beyond India, mainly during colonial periods, from parts of East Africa to Indonesia, and about its future as a currency,&rdquo; Paul Abraham, founder, Sarmaya Arts Foundation, told us.</p>

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