Screen
The screen heats up with NDTV Lumière, a new channel launched showcasing international cinema. It is the best of critically acclaimed films and international film festivals. Sink your teeth into the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar, Wong-Kar Wai, Fellini and Truffaut, amongst others. Step into Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai for German films that pick up on the motherhood theme with Mother Beast – Mother Human on May 10 and In the Midst of the Malestream on May 17. If that is too highbrow for your palate, check out HBO’s blockbusters Shooter (May 17), Happy Feet (May 29) and Blood Diamond (May 31).

Art
Open up summer with an ochre palette with Matthias Mansen’s Woodcuts at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai on until May 31. Check out Arzan Khambatta's minimalist sculptures, Realms, at the Arndean Gallery, London from May 11 to 17. N.N. Rimzon’s paintings are up at Bodhi Space, Wadibunder from May 10 to June 7. Shambhavi Singh’s Lullaby is on at Talwar Gallery, New Delhi until June 14. Take a break with Vivan Sundaram’s installations entitled Trash at Chemould Prescott Road, on until May 17. His theme revolves around the economy and aesthetics of urban waste and second-hand goods. Trash also continues in the Biennale of Sydney and the Mari Art Museum, Tokyo. Bari Kumar’s In Transit shows at Grosvenor Gallery, London from May 8 to 30, while Chameli Ramachandran shows there from May 18.

Theatre
Take kids for a ride, with the Hindi version of The Wizard of Oz directed by Shivani Tanksale, at Prithvi Theatre, Mumbai on May 4, 7 and 8.

Food
The next time you are in London, stop by 51 Buckingham Gate’s South Indian restaurant, Quilon, which has just received a Michelin star, the ultimate culinary accolade.

Books
On the event of the launch of Gay Bombay, author Parmesh Shahani, is quite an open book

What inspired you to write Gay Bombay?
I wrote this book while I was in Boston, studying and then working at MIT, on the intersection of technology, society, media and culture in our rapidly globalising world. It became a quest both, academic and personal, and it was a cathartic experience because the three years of research also enabled me to reflect on my own life and understand myself better.

Do you feel that Mumbai and India are ready to discuss this subject?
Yes, of course! To me, what is interesting in the recent transformation of India. More than the change in its economy, is the change in people’s attitudes - the confidence, the optimism, the capacity to innovate, the creative collaborations and appropriations, the audacity to imagine future possibilities in the midst of really challenging existing conditions....