MAY 10, 2020 Free with your copy of Sunday Hindustan Times YEARS OF 2004-2020 HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY POSTPARTUM BLUES TO BLAST! BY Sameera Reddy PAGE 10 + RELATIONSHIPS LOVE, LUST & LONGING IN LOCKDOWN PAGE 18 “It’s okay to not be okay, but it’s not okay to not be okay and not seek help!” MUM IS NOT A GOOD WORD! NEERJA BIRLA URGES YOU TO BREAK THE SILENCE SURROUNDING MENTAL HEALTH WITH PERSONAL STORIES INVOLVING HER BIGGEST CRUSADERS: HER CHILDREN! #MumsNotTheWord BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS 3 To read Brunch stories online, log on to hindustantimes.com/brunch. Follow @HTBrunch on Twitter and Instagram Stuff You Said my favourite MUSEUM YEARS OF Last Sunday With International Museum Day on May 18 (and travel beginning to 2004-2020 seem possible again), five travel enthusiasts pick their favourites By Lubna Salim Underground is housed in an old castle with a stunning view of adventure the coastline of South France. It also highlights the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in quirks of Picasso as a person and makes for a truly Hobart, Tasmania fun, yet enriching, experience.” “This one flips everything —Savi Munjal, travel blogger, you know about museums Bruised Passports on the head. It is entirely underground. There are DIVIDE AND DROOL no signs, directions or tour The Partition Museum, Amritsar guides. Just the O, this “For someone who shuns museums, mysterious little gadget going back to the MONA is a gamechanger with GPS and headphones, same one two for anyone who finds which figures out where days in a row was museums boring you are wandering and unusual, to say what you’re looking at. You can listen to the artist talk the least. The about his or her own work, or listen to curators or Partition Museum critics. The museum’s founder, David Walsh, made his in Amritsar is not millions in online gambling, and his obsession with very large, but the leyla_peripatetic Pas encore sex and death is evident throughout MONA. It’s a stories it tells are The tales of separation from both gamechanger for anyone who finds museums boring.” large-hearted in sides of the border are supported by rinichatterje That turtleneck is —Divia Thani, Editor-in-chief, Conde Nast Traveller narrative and memorabilia at The Partition Museum mrsmooface The hair, the context. The tales of separation from both sides of hair xx One for petrolheads the border are supported by memorabilia and hand- Mercedes Benz Museum, Stuttgart written letters, and an ample dose of emotions. “If you’re a petrolhead, this one’s a Stories of Indians and Pakistanis are narrated with Huh! Arrangements for today’s brunch done. no-brainer. But what makes it special an even, equal voice, and there is a celebration of Oh wait, but its too hot. @TheAaryanKartik for me is that it those who proved themselves successful in their @HTbrunch #hindustantimes @yasinqureshi was probably my country in the decades to come. This museum will rite to passage to tug at your heart long after you’ve left!” Good, sorted reportage is such an antidote truly understand —Jamal Shaikh, National Editor, Brunch and to stay at home blues! #RudeFood and appreciate New Media Initiatives, Hindustan Times @maitra_gaurangi the value of ‘the best or nothing’. Stayin alive manasiitadkar I was 13-14 years Abba Museum, Stockholm old and on my The cars displayed at the Mercedes Benz “Since my penchant is for the Museum can get you hooked to wheels first trip to outdoors and Europe. I think it got me hooked to wheels, I was adventure sports, fascinated by the history and the models displayed I generally there, I felt like a kid in a candy store, only tend to scratch you couldn’t buy the candies this time!” a museum off —Aindrila Mitra, Editor-in-chief, my itinerary. Travel + Leisure India and South Asia But a visit to Abba Museum, FOR THE love dedicated to the The ABBA Museum gives you one of the OF PICASSO iconic Swedish most un-museum-like experiences The Picasso Museum, Antibes pop band from the ’70s was perhaps the most un- “It houses a range of works museum-like experience! With the interactive spanning Picasso’s career. But it stations I could be a part of the virtual band on should also be on the bucket list stage, listen to its history, sing and dance along of people who are not museum to my favourite tracks in the ‘party room’ with buffs. That’s because the collection disco lights, and record my own performance.” Note: Some tweets have been edited to correct spelling and grammar spelling to correct been edited have Some tweets Note: —Rahul Jagtiani, travel blogger Picasso Museum also gives a glimpse Find Hindustan Times Brunch on Facebook, into the artist’s quirky self and TV host follow @htbrunch on Instagram or tweet to @HTBrunch or... 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Shamelessly frontlining a with potted plants and quirky The mango season is in full For those familiar with the pina colada. Parading its boldness tableware in filtered frames. I swing, without any ceremony lanes of Bandra in Mumbai, they in an upside-down cake. Even try and repress my puritanical Tor sentimental tributes. This will know well a fruit that is squashing itself into a halwa! I streak and the urge to express needs to be corrected instantly, so plentiful at this time of year. The know that it’s pointless to scream my wicked astonishment. here goes. The world might have white jamun with its juicy-crunchy one’s support or rejection of a But as someone who cuts a hit its darkest patch, but there is kick. This, of all fruits, I proclaim, universally acknowledged fruit, watermelon like a Cubist gone still an orange lining on select sub- is best had stolen, slightly bruised but I feel it’s providing me with wild, I’m in no position to mock. continental street carts. I have just from its fall, and in less fastidious some much-needed catharsis at I retaliate by making my own allowed myself a slice of heaven, times, dusty too. Sweet is the fruit a difficult time. In the interest of posts, gathering fruit in sunlit temporarily transporting me out of streetside thievery. brevity, I will edit out my rant trays with captions about of these insipid times and into the against those tiny bananas and Rembrandt and still life. sweet realm of fruity nostalgia. FRUITY dangers too-tart plums. And my intense Something about the On a long-ago trip to Malaysia, aversion to peaches is not open goodness of fruit sustains us Streetside I was exposed to a peculiar and to discussion. in hard times. Whether you thievery powerful fruit. The durian, with encounter an apricot in a Where there is a mango, there its spiky exterior and noxious BANANA split Moroccan stew or a raisin in are memories of grandmothers, smell, could well be a flavour personality an oatmeal cookie, it brings childhood games and the freedom invented by Bertie Bott of Every The best way to eat fruit, I a comfort and delight that is of summer evenings. But a mango, Flavour Bean fame. Even lovers believe, is when it’s enhancing the very mandate of lockdown like any self-obsessed food. Coconut milk in a curry or superstar, eclipses the less WHERE THERE IS A MANGO, kokum in a cooler – the tropics shouty charms of the rest THERE ARE MEMORIES OF provide such freshness and of the fruit ensemble. variety to recipes. I, for one, My mind goes back to GRANDMOTHERS, CHILDHOOD am grateful for that morning a drive from Pahalgam GAMES AND THE FREEDOM OF glass of orange juice, between to Srinagar in a minibus the doing of the dishes and the filled with cousins. As the SUMMER EVENINGS taking out of the garbage. For a sun plummeted taking our spirits of jackfruit and adorers of melon some kind of dessert. It all few golden moments, the broken along with it, we made a quick stop would be hard-pressed to squeeze started with those cherries world becomes whole again. And at an apple orchard. Now the last out a defence for this offender. in a black forest cake, my then, once the first round of person I’d heard of biting into an I believe there are laws that generation’s introduction to this chores is done and first wave of apple that’s plucked straight off a prohibit its transport in various glorious possibility. And that old work mails dealt with, it’s back tree was one Eve, and things didn’t nations. I salute such efforts favourite, banana split.