On the grape wine: Tycoon’s art of giving to top museum

A prominent Mumbai museum has been at the centre of a tiff with the authorities over the management of its day-to-day operations. The side effect of this unpleasant dust-up has been the drying up of government funding. Appeal to corporates resulted in an unexpected windfall by way of an industrialist’s contribution. The museum was soon the recipient of his remuneration from an American bank – in the range of $100,000 — which helped the public institution tide over the financial crunch. The museum’s key officials can’t stop raving about it. After all, anything that’s rare deserves a museum’s attention, and that goes for gestures too.