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DELHI THE HINDU 16 LIFE THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Santanu Das, Mirza Waheed Pioneering chef Floyd Cardoz win The Hindu Prize 2019 dies at 59 of COVID­19 He broke stereotypes and mentored many in the industry In the award citation, jury members describe the books as sensitive and complex Cannes opens its doors Anoothi Vishal to the homeless R. Krithika dians in it, and in particular, PARIS the tens of thousands among He sat at an outer table, The Palais des Festivals The winners of The Hindu them who lost their lives.” quiet and unobtrusive, eat­ should be preparing to Prize 2019 Fiction and Non­ “An extraordinary work of ing dinner with his two com­ welcome the hottest names Fiction are Mirza Waheed fiction whose complexity, panions at the then newly in cinema onto its red carpet. (Tell Her Everything) and depth and narrative mastery launched Farzi Café in Gur­ Instead the Cannes Film Santanu Das (India, Empire, would be hard to match in gaon one monsoon evening Festival venue has now and First World War Cul- contemporary world litera­ in 2014, when someone opened its doors to the ture,” reads the citation for pointed him out to me as the town’s homeless who have ture: Writings, Images and nowhere to go during the Songs). The winners for both Mr. Waheed’s Tell Her Eve- chef behind Tabla, New coronavirus lockdown. REUTERS categories were selected by rything, describing it as “a York. an eminent panel of judges. compelling novel, both a Till then, I had known The jury members for fic­ narrative tour de force and Floyd Cardoz by reputation tion were diplomat and auth­ an exploration of a profound alone. To those of us who or Navtej Sarna, author and existential and moral wrote on Indian gastrono­ columnist Nilanjana Roy, conundrum.” my, he was a well­known author Pradeep Sebastian, The Hindu Prize was insti­ name — the Mumbai­raised, researcher and translator J. tuted in 2010 to honour wri­ Goan chef who had put In­ Devika and professor Rajes­ ters who have spent their li­ dian food on the map in the

wari Sunder Rajan. For non­ fetime mining the human U.S., marrying regional fla­ Chef Floyd Cardoz in New York. * KRIS CONNOR/GETTY IMAGES African jazz great dies in fiction, the jury comprised spirit through their words vours to local produce to France of coronavirus Kamini Mahadevan, publish­ and ideas. The prize is usual­ come up with contemporar­ hospital in New Jersey on vier’s College canteen, the PARIS ing consultant; Chandan ly awarded at a ceremony ised plates and a Bread Bar Mach 18 after feeling crab curry and Goan sausage Manu Dibango, who fused Gowda, faculty member at during The Hindu’s annual whose fan following belied feverish. at home had obviously African rhythms with funk to become one of the most Azim Premji University; literature festival Lit For Life. curry and tandoori stereo­ My abiding memory of seeped into the spirit and influential musicians in world Harsh Sethi, former consult­ However the 2020 edition types of desi food in the Big Cardoz will be of that mon­ cooking of the restaurant. As dance music, died on Tuesday ing editor with Seminar; Honour roll: Santanu Das, winner of the prize for non­fiction, had to be cancelled due to a Apple. soon evening in 2014, when he sat remembering things with the coronavirus, author Rustom Bharucha; and, below, Mirza Waheed for fiction. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT challenging environment. Chef Cardoz died of CO­ Floyd had come back to In­ past, two young men were according to his music and author and social an­ An award ceremony to be VID­19 on Wednesday. He dia, having earned his acco­ manning the kitchen, exe­ publisher. He was 86. The thropologist Shiv man dimensions of a major mine the scholarly and pop­ held on March 28 was also had tested positive on March lades abroad, on a mission cuting his dishes, passing Cameroon­born saxophonist Visvanathan. modern war that reshaped ular imaginations of the First cancelled because of the CO­ 18 and was being treated at to push the envelope even food out through a small ser­ gained gained international The citation describes global politics and culture in World War which have tend­ VID­19 pandemic. The Hindu Mountainside Medical further. vice window. Chefs Thomas fame with his 1972 song Soul Prof. Das’ work as “a sensi­ fundamental ways” and as ed to ignore the involvement Lit For Life will be back in Ja­ Centre, New Jersey. He was Zacharias and Hussain Shah­ Makossa. AP tive exploration of the hu­ one that “helps to re­exa­ of close to over a million In­ nuary 2021. 59. Passion project zad were being mentored by A chef par excellence, That evening as he and his Cardoz. Cardoz was the co­founder two dining companions, The two are leading res­ of Hunger Inc, the company Yash Bhanage and Sameer taurant chefs in India today; that runs restaurants such as Seth, sat at Farzi Café, they their own dishes define the Full steam ahead for U.K.’s model railway buffs The Bombay Canteen and O had been discussing their menus of The Bombay Can­ Pedro. plans to start a new restau­ teen and its sister outlet O Reuters andra Palace venue was can­ supposed to be a two­day The loss is unbearable, rant in Mumbai. Bhanage Pedro (that opened in 2017). London celled due to coronavirus festival into a lasting online stunning all of us in the and Seth had been men­ And their creativity is inde­ The trains of Britain have restrictions, model­makers community. world of food in India, a tored by Cardoz as young pendent of their mentor’s. been known to grind to a halt got the show back on track The show’s sponsor was community that for all its hospitality professionals in But both did start out under due to such minor hazards as by taking it online. British toymaker Hornby, squabbles and differences is the U.S. Now, with their the able guidance of Cardoz. leaves on the line or the Using the hashtag #Twit­ which makes train sets in­ also closely knit. Just in the guide and father figure in There was a generosity in wrong type of snow, but the terModelRailwayShow, thou­ cluding miniatures of real beginning of the month, tow, it was fitting that they letting them soar indepen­ world of model railways is sands of them have been engines and more magical when Cardoz was in Mumbai should plan a passion pro­ dently, unshackled. It is a made of sterner stuff. posting photos and videos ones like Harry Potter’s Hog­ for the launch of the Bom­ ject meticulously. testimony to Cardoz’s talent Even a pandemic of epic this week of their detailed warts Express. “It just goes bay Sweet Shop (also by A year later, the trio and leadership that all his proportions has been unable miniature railway sets, draw­ to show how resourceful Hunger Inc), he had attend­ launched The Bombay Can­ protégées have carved out to ruin one of the U.K.’s pre­ ing expert commentary and folks are,” said Simon Kohler, ed events with much of the teen and invited me over. creative niches for them­ mier railway modelling appreciative feedback from Hornby’s marketing and pro­ restaurant and writing com­ The food was a tribute to selves and are taking his le­ shows. fellow enthusiasts. duct development director. munity in attendance. He Cardoz’s memories of a gacy forward. When the annual London The railway festival has ”You get knocked down, you flew back to New York, and Bombay he had grown up in. (Anoothi Vishal is a Tiny train: A model of a small­town railway station called Festival of Railway Modelling carried on unabated for get up again and you find according to his Facebook His stories about feema Delhi-based food writer Cheadle Hill in Britain. * PAUL WILLARD/REUTERS exhibition at the grand Alex­ days, extending what was another way.” post admitted himself to a (kheema) pao at the St. Xa­ and author)

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Photographer Nemai Ghosh, who documented filmmaking, passes away at 85

Namrata Joshi Mumbai Veteran photographer Nemai Ghosh passed away in Kolkata on Wednesday. He was 85. He had been unwell after a recent surgery. For someone best remembered as the visual biographer of legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray and a documentarian of the making of his astounding body of work, an interesting aspect about Nemai Ghosh was that he started off as an actor with actor­director Utpal Dutt’s Little Theatre Group in Kolkata. Arts critic and publisher­editor Samik Bandopadhyay remembers one such play that he acted in: the landmark Angar (1959) about the exploitation of coal miners. It had music Behind the lens: Nemai Ghosh at ‘Satyajit Ray: From Script to Screen’, an exhibition at the by Ravi Shankar and National Gallery of Modern Art in Bengaluru in 2009. * K. MURALI KUMAR complex sets (Nirmal Guha Ray) and lighting design imagemaker’s consistent his photos. You could see being given space by the (Tapas Sen) with an entire collaboration and his love for theatre and state government to archive sequence of a mine getting engagement with a cinema [reflected in them],” his work. Later, he gave submerged under water. personality. says Mr. Chaudhuri. away most of it to the Delhi “He was an impressive and Ray’s son and filmmaker Apart from Ray, Ghosh Art Gallery. formidable figure on stage Sandip Ray remembers also chronicled some of In the latter half of his but was never so interested meeting him on the sets of Mrinal Sen’s films and he life, he was passionately in photography then,” Goopi… “He was a part of was the still photographer documenting painters at recalls Mr. Bandopadhyay. the family. He was always on Mira Nair’s The work and musicians in The interest got kindled there, not just on the shoot, Namesake. “His portraits of performance. According to entirely by chance in 1966 but our home as well,” he my father were absolutely Mr. Bandopadhyay, Ghosh when he found an says. The magic of his black brilliant,” says Mr. Ray. had clicked some exclusive abandoned camera and and white images lay in the Sujoy Ghosh remembers pictures of the ailing Italian started tinkering and specific fleeting instants that him shooting on the sets of maestro Michelangelo playing around with it. they managed to capture, his own film Kahaani. “I fell Antonioni, some of them in Being a great lover of that too without flash, in at his feet. It was such an his hotel room, when the cinema himself, he wanted natural light. “He never honour that he considered latter had come to Kolkata to shoot the process of missed a moment, captured our film,” he says. for the retrospective of his filmmaking which is when the right moment,” says Beyond Ray and films, a work at International Film his path crossed with that of Sandip Ray. major part of his work was Festival of India in 1994. Ray. Initially just “tolerant” on the theatre in Bengal and Impressed with his images, of his presence, as he once Pictures that speak about Kolkata itself. His Antonioni, who had taken to recalled, Ray discovered Filmmaker Sujoy Ghosh work was a reference point painting in his later years, Ghosh’s talent by and by to compares his frames to for Sujoy Ghosh when he had invited him for his have him become a part of videography. “Each of his went shooting in Kolkata for exhibition to Italy. Ghosh his unit. Goopi Gyne Bagha photos tells a story to me. Kahaani. “It was an had shot him at the moving Byne (1969) onwards, he Like Jaya Bachchan in amazing inspiration. Every around in the exhibition on was the still photographer Kalighat, teeka on the photographer and painter a wheelchair. Having been for all of Ray’s works till his forehead, prasad in hand, has a [unique] way of witness to the maestro’s last film Agantuk (1991). happy… I see many things in looking at places, objects, painting phase, Ghosh “The only other parallel I the process. It’s instructive people which is different wanted to preserve it in the can draw is Raghu Rai’s and informative about the from ours,” he says. form of a book. Sadly there photographs of Indira process of filmmaking One of Ghosh’s were no takers for it in the Gandhi,” says photographer itself,” he says. “There was disappointments, according commercial publishing Chirodeep Chaudhuri of an an endearing quality about to Mr. Chaudhuri, was not world.

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