RCB and CSMVS celebrate Textile Gallery re-adoption The Urban Heritage Committee of the Rotary Club of Bombay and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) held an event on May 2nd, 2024, to commemorate RCB’s readoption of the Textile & Costume Gallery. This marks the second time RCB has embraced this invaluable gallery, which houses precious...
The ‘Mapped!’ exhibition, meticulously curated by the Rotary Club of Bombay’s Urban Heritage Committee (UHC), ended on a spectacular note. Visitor numbers skyrocketed in the final week, with daily counts regularly surpassing a hundred and reaching over 500 in the final three days. The month-long exhibition attracted a diverse group of city residents, from history enthusiasts...
By Rtn. Aditya V. Somani Vidya Balan visited the Rotary Club of Bombay's Mapped! exhibition at the Asiatic Society Mumbai and launched 'A Wardrobe Full of Stories'. The event, held on Saturday, May 6th, 2023, was hosted by Inner Courtyard at the iconic Town Hall in Mumbai. It is part of the successful launch weekend of...
The Urban Heritage Committee (UHC) launched the highly anticipated second edition of its captivating cartographic exhibition, ‘Mapped: Surveys That Left Behind a Legacy,’ at the esteemed Asiatic Library on May 5th, 2023. The inauguration witnessed a full house, with distinguished guests and esteemed personalities in attendance. President Vineet Bhatnagar, Chairperson of the UHC Rtn. Renu Basu,...
As part of a calendar of events celebrating Mapped, the exhibition of vintage surveys at the Durbar Hall, Asiatic Society of Bombay, the Rotary Club of Bombay recently welcomed over 160 map enthusiasts for an intriguing exploration. The event, curated by Past Perfect, titled ‘Story of Mumbai Through Maps: Putting ‘ART’ in Cartography’, attracted over...
Back in 2019, the Urban Heritage Committee of the Rotary Club of Bombay extended their support to the Asiatic Society of Mumbai for a Cartographic Conservation Project, with an aim to conserve close to a 100 maps from the Library's treasured rare map collection. This restoration effort has prompted the organisation of yet another exhibition...
The Urban Heritage Committee is delighted to report that its Adopt-a-Book Program has raised a whopping amount of INR 10.8 lakhs over the course of the last few months. Our own PP Shailesh Haribhakti has donated INR 5,00,000 to this cause to restore and digitize 50 books. Initiated by a drive at the recently concluded...
'Repair and Restoration: Let's Talk about Mumbai's Modern Heritage', a presentation on Swastik Court by Atul Kumar, Founder Trustee, Art Deco Mumbai, followed by a conversation between architects Vikas Dilawari, Robert Stephens, and Atul. Venue: Durbar Hall, the Asiatic Society of Mumbai; 11th February, 2023. As part of the ongoing initiatives of The Urban Heritage Committee,...
The Killa-e-Lizzat culinary walk organised by RCB’s Urban Heritage Committee on February 4th began at 8.30 a.m. outside St Thomas’ Cathedral where 22 eager and hungry Rotarians began what was a delicious 3-hour and 2km food trail through Horniman circle and Fort, helmed ably by our guide, Riddhi Joshi and organised by the Asiatic Society,...
RCB was delighted to bring to its members an exclusive event on 6 October 2022 when the Paranjoti Academy Chorus (PAC) one of India’s oldest and possibly best choral groups performed at the Rendezvous at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. The PAC has made numerous tours of Europe, USA, Japan & Philippines winning several accolades...
Rhythm of India, a fundraiser organised by the Urban Heritage Committee of Rotary Club of Bombay, mesmerised and educated the audience on Friday, August 12th, 2022, with a sitar performance by Pandit Chandrasekhar Phanse and his students from all over the world. This was to commemorate 75 years of India’s Independence and Azadi Ka Amrit...
In 2015, The Indian Textile and Costume Gallery, the first in the city of Mumbai, was established at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS). CSMVS has a modest but significant collection of around a thousand textiles which can best be termed an interesting mix of historical and representative textiles. Textile traditions of India have...