DNA AFTER HRS Sep 16 th , Sunday In a charity event to alleviate poverty amongst children, celebrities were seen lending a hand for the cause. Karan Johar was the host with Vir Das providing entertainment and Nita Ambani was the Chief Guest for the evening. Celebs like Superna Motwane, Saurav Ganguly, Rashmi Uday Singh, Rahul Bose, Samantha Nayar, Bijal Meswani, Bhavna with Chunky Pandey, Lara Dutta with Mahesh Bhupathi,Dino Morea, Vikas and Gayatri Oberoi, Madhoo Shah, Ramona Narang, Ashok and Reena Wadhwa, Shalini and Samrat Zaveri, Lalit and Pooja Choudhary and Huma Qureshi added sparkle to the event
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DNA AFTER HRS
Sep 16th, Sunday
In a charity event to alleviate poverty amongst children, celebrities were seen lending a hand for the cause. Karan
Johar was the host with Vir Das providing entertainment and Nita Ambani was the Chief Guest for the evening.
Bhavna with Chunky Pandey, Lara Dutta with Mahesh Bhupathi,Dino Morea, Vikas and Gayatri Oberoi, Madhoo
Shah, Ramona Narang, Ashok and Reena Wadhwa, Shalini and Samrat Zaveri, Lalit and Pooja Choudhary and Huma
Qureshi added sparkle to the event
Hindustan Time HT Cafe
SEP 16, Sunday
Charity organization Magic Bus, which works for the upliftment of poverty-stricken children, hosted its second
benefit show. The event aimed to raise funds for underpriviledged children. Karan Johar compered the event,
while Vir Das kept the audience entertained with his witty remarks. Nita Ambani was the chief guest at the
evening. Former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly made a rare appearance. Lara Dutta, who has shunned the
limelight post-delivery, was accompanied by her husband Mahesh Bhupathi.
Read the article online on: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d5aae9be-0313-11e2-a484-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz294QR9gNu Matthew Spacie, the founder of Magic Bus, one of India’s largest charities, has a luxury that few in Mumbai share: a balcony with a view.
He lives in a 14th-floor apartment on Parel Tank Road, alongside Mumbai’s east-central harbour in
Sewri. Once home to textile mills, the industrial neighbourhood of Sewri is gradually transforming.
High-rise residential blocks have proliferated, competing for space with lower-income informal
settlements and government-sponsored housing projects. Chunks of the partly constructed Mumbai
Metro project, an elevated rail transportation system, are visible. Towards the east, the view extends
to the Arabian Sea, and Sewri’s famous mudflats, where migrating flamingos come to breed every year.
Sewri is an unlikely expat destination. Spacie moved to Mumbai in 1996 as a chief operating officer
for Cox and Kings. He had worked for the travel company for seven years after graduating in the UK.
Raised in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex, north-east of London, he travelled extensively with the company,
often going to the Middle East, before finally settling in India.
Although Spacie was relatively unfazed by the move, he admits that the “pre-monsoon heat and
monsoon humidity was overwhelming”. He initially rented apartments in regular expat haunts in south
Mumbai, including the more affluent neighbourhoods of Colaba, Breach Candy and Worli.
Sewri caught his attention when his wife, Ashima Narain, a photographer and film-maker whom he met
in Mumbai, began filming a documentary on migratory birds. “We were taken by the fact that there
were 20,000 pink flamingos in the bay,” he says. “I knew it would take years to rejuvenate [the area],
but it cuts down on my commute – my office is just down the road in Parel.” The slightly offbeat
location allowed the couple’s limited budget to go far: their four-bedroom duplex apartment spans
3,000 sq ft. A similar space would cost three times as much in the city’s more upmarket areas.
In 1999 Spacie founded Magic Bus, a charity that works with children and adolescents aged eight to 18,
and connects them with local community mentors through a weekly curriculum of sports activities.