"Mumbai is so vast, you don't know where the art lovers are!" says Shilpa Thaker, city-based kathak aficionado and a student of the dance form. Her search, at least a part of it, ended last weekend when she attended a baithak at kathak artiste Shoma Kaikini's Bandra studio. "Sitting inches away from the artiste with fellow kathak lovers, and listening to the sarangi and tabla being played with no speakers or mic in between was transcendental," she adds.

Artist Abhijeet Kini (extreme right) conducts a comic-making workshop at his Santacruz home