SNAPSHOTS FROMA CAR RALLY THAT WASHELD OVER THE

WEEKEND,CELEBRATING

WOMEN DRIVERS ANDTHEIR SPIRIT. THE EVENT SAWHORDES OF VEHICLES RALLYING UP TO NANDI HILLS.IT ALSO PROMOTED ROADSAFETY AMONG WOMEN DRIVERS. MORE THAN 250 PEOPLE TOOK PART IN THE RALLY.

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MONDAY 24 JULY 2017 BANGALORE TIMES, THE TIMES OF INDIA 3BENGALURU IS TALKING ABOUT

Celebrating the spiritof women drivers Celebrating the spiritof women drivers Celebrating the spiritof women drivers Celebrating the spiritof women drivers Celebrating the spiritof women drivers

Wanitaa Ashok flaggingoff the rally

I nternationally acclaimed singerAmeya Dabli launched his musicalbum Ekam Satt — One Truth,

One Humanity, World Music at thehands of global humanitarian andspiritual leader Rev. Dada JPVaswani as part of the latter’s cente-nary birthday celebrations in Pune.The album is available on all digitalplatforms through Times Music.Inspired by respected Dada’s mes-sage of selfless love and service forhumanity, the album features theworks of legendary poets and saintssuch as Kabirdas, Mirabai, NarsinhMehta, Guru Nanak Dev, KhwajaGarib Nawaz, Buddha, Tukaram,Tulsidas, Gospels and others.

Given the continuous stress andturmoil that individuals across theglobe face, there is an urgent need

for each of us to pause, reflect andconnect with each other, cuttingacross our religious, social and cul-tural beliefs. The album’s songsfocus on this precise theme thateventually it is a ‘one world family’and showcases the best of sufi,folk and contemporary world music acrossdifferent gen-res. The albumhas foot tappingnumbers cover-ing Indian andinternationalmusical formsto appeal toa u d i e n c e sacross agegroups. With anaim to spread

the message of love andunity across cultures andsociety globally, Ameya Dabliand his business partnerPurvi Soali quit their successful corporate careersto become social entrepre-neurs.

A versatile singer, Ameyahas performed over 1,500 con-certs across 15 countries. Themusic from the album isalready a rage with live ren-ditions by Ameya across 25locations including for largecorporates like Aditya BirlaGroup and at the Indian HighCommission in London. He iscurrently touring India, the

US and Dubai for his other musicalconcept ‘Heart 2 Heart’ coveringmelodious ghazals and folk music.

His 10 city ‘Heart 2 Heart’ tourcovering melodious ghazals kickedoff in Mumbai yesterday and willfurther move to Bengaluru, Pune,Hyderabad, Kolkata and other cities.

Ameya Dabli andDada JP Vaswani

Pics: Shashank Sane

On a musicalodyssey

On a musicalodyssey

The launch was attended by a large number of people

BIZARRE?

A Florida family was woken upat 4 am by a 6.8 kg package of

frozen pork that fell on their Deer-field Beach house’s roof last Satur-day. Travis Adair said that his wife,Jennie, found two bundles of meatoutside the house, and his son,Austin, found three on the roof.Themeat was given away by its owner,Jim Williams,who lives 270 km awayfrom the Adair family and wasstumped by the mystery too. — AP

Frozen meatfalls from sky

BIZARRE?

I was not trying to bring in any compari-son. The moment I say, ‘Oh we did this,and they didn’t do that’, then, obviously,that is kind of below the belt and I am notthat kind of a person. People know meand that I am classier than that, but itwas interesting to see the reactions tothat. I realize that trolling has become apart of social media that one cannotignore when you are in the public eye.But then, in a very strange way, it doeshelp in bringing a subject into the spot-light. There are more civilized ways ofdoing that, but social media does notallow that. You have to be very straight-forward in saying things and you need tohave an opinion, and even if you are con-vinced about what you are saying, peopleare going to go against you.

LIVING OUT OF A SUITCASE

There is the World 6 Red SnookerChampionship inEgypt fromAugust 1, so I amoff in a week’stime. My sport hastaken me to almost40 countries inthese years, some ofthem multiple times,but I haven’t really beenable to explore them asmuch as I would have wanted.The irony is that to be able to dothat you have to lose early on in the tour-nament and that is not something thatyou would want to.

There are times, though, when I am ontour in a new place and that feeling ofwanting to return to the comfort of homesets in. Then, all I want to do is sit in frontof my TV, eat home-cooked food and lazearound. The whole process of competing,including the preparation, living out asuitcase, eating food you are not used to,

being in cli-mates that arealien to you formost part ofthe year — allof that is goodfor a while, butthen you get

into that zone inwhich you just

want to finish thetournament and

come back home.Which is what I did after

Krygyzstan.

32 AND STILL SINGLEI have won so many trophies and titles inmy career, but I haven’t been able to wina girl. So, the single status remains andwill for a while. I haven’t really beeninvolved much in that direction in find-ing the right person, because my sched-ule has taken me more towards mycareer.

I HAVE WONTROPHIES AND TITLESIN MY CAREER, BUTHAVEN’T BEEN ABLE

TO WIN A GIRL. SO, THESINGLE STATUS WILL

REMAIN FOR AWHILE

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Pics: Rakesh Ravindran

‘Trolling cannotbe ignored when you are in public eye’

‘Trolling cannotbe ignored when you are in public eye’ Pankaj Advani