The Northern Lights Installation at Kala Ghoda Arts Festival
| Photo Credit: Mounish Bhatt
The Northern Lights are a must-see and probably on every traveller's bucket list. There is just something so awe-inspiring, as if an artist is wielding a brush in real time, creating pictures in the sky. For those of us who do not have the leave, bandwidth or budget to see this marvel, a large iridescent black box decisively set at the entrance to the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival (KGAF) at the CSMVS lawns, Mumbai, offered a close second.Northern lights in India? Here’s how to see Auroras tonightWith a serpentine line forming to see what was behind its sequinned curtains, just 10 visitors (21 years and above) were allowed at a time. As visitors stepped in, a 12-foot-tall, arresting white sculpture in the centre of the floor-to-ceiling mirrored room suddenly came alive. Deep percussive music played second fiddle to the mesmerising visuals. Soft aquamarine lights mirroring the Northern Lights swirled across the sculpture as the mirrors caught and reflected it. The lights shifted, shimmering from green to blue to purple as the music reached a crescendo. I paused, with no phone to capture these moments, instead standing in awe at the scale, size and the audacity of ambition, all within a single installation. For a brief moment, it transported me to the Northern Hemisphere, and after five minutes, it was back to the balmy night in Mumbai.
