The Cricket Connects India - England Exhibition

The Cricket Connects India - England, exhibition that was opened to the public, at the Nehru Science Centre, on 1st December by cricket legends Sunil Gavaskar and Dilip Vengsarkar, as expected has been extensively covered in the media. It is not for nothing that Ashish Nandy said Cricket is an Indian game accidentally discovered by the British. We have been receiving many calls on the exhibition

While it is satisfying for us to note that the Cricket exhibition has been widely applauded and very well covered in the media, we were worried that another exhibition, of much greater societal importance, the “Toilet Manifesto”, which was opened by Mr Ajoy Mehta, the Municipal Commissioner of MCGM, on 30th November at our centre - under the aegis of the Swachh Bharat initiative of the Ministry of Culture - has not received the kind of a response that it truly deserved and we wanted from the media friends.

What is however satisfying is that this exhibition, a creative endeavour of Kalpit and Mayuri, that has been mentored and promoted by the Nehru Science Centre and brought to the level that it has now come up to, has been drawing lot of eye balls specially from the professionals, architecture students and other major stakeholders. The two panel discussions that complemented the exhibition have been overwhelmingly successful and leads us to a wishful thinking that monumental issues that confront civic authorities, pertaining to the design typologies that could address the need for public toilet complexes have been fairly well received.

The exhibition concludes on 8th December.