I met Jayanth at the 'Fiza Nexus' mall where his students from NITTE university, Mass Comm course were organising a chocolate street fest - they provided space for local bakers etc to sell their stuff in the mall. Looked like an interesting project and all stalls seemed to be doing brisk business selling delightful cakes, pastries, tarts etc.
The house in which it is located belongs to the Alva brothers, four of whom played cricket, two at first class. More interestingly the house is featured as a heritage structure in Mangalore, Kodial Guthu or Guthu Mane.
We met Nemiraj Shetty who was handling the affairs of Art Kanara Trust with his team. He recalled fond memories of his stay in Hyderabad, working with the AP Times, and later on, setting up his own art gallery there.
The Art Kanara Office has some wonderful paintings by local artists, books which included 'Red Cherries' and a couple that I bought - 'Combing Kudla' with pens and brushes - an Urban Sketchers initiative with sketches of over 50 heritage structures, beautifully done. Another book titled 'Chennu' which is a profile of the Mangalore City.
We had a long chat about Hyderbad, heritage work in Mangalore, art, literature etc. He told me that they had a group that organised heritage walks every fortnight - unfortuantely they did not have one the next day.
It was a lovely outing and I enjoyed meeting Nemiraj and promised to keep in touch with him. We clicked a few pics before Jayanth and I set off.
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