We snapped state-level volleyball player Madhura Vichare during a practice session while we were on our rounds of Shivaji Park. 

When Mumbai-born opera singer and Zoroastrian priest Ervad Frazan Kotwal, 31, got a call from Pune calligraphist Perin Pudumjee Coyaji asking if he’d record 1,001 names of Ahura Mazda in his rich baritone as an accompaniment to her new prayer book, the project resonated deeply with him. It intertwined his spiritual roots with his training and passion for opera, he says.