Musiccosmos

Verve People Text by Sadaf Shaikh. Photographs by Shweta Desai. Styling by Ojas Kolvankar. Location Courtesy: The Pottery Lab at Temperance, Mumbai On Rekha: Colourblocked silk top, by Payal Khandwala, Mumbai. Cotton trousers, pearl earrings, both Rekha’s own. On Pooja: Handwoven silk kaftan, by Payal Khandwala, Mumbai. Kepler hoops, from Misho, at www.mishodesigns.com Denims, Pooja’s own. A cab ride in the bylanes of Bandra has me staring introspectively at my hands, wondering if they could ever produce objects of beauty. My musings are not of the metaphysical kind — I haven’t been gripped by some fervent need to create — but perhaps have more to do with the two women I am on my way to meet. Ceramic artist Rekha Goyal and pastry chef Pooja Dhingra await my presence at the rather idyllic Temperance, a multilevel fitness studio-cum-activity centre where the former conducts pottery classes for the uninitiated. It takes me some time to locate the venue, enveloped as it is ...