An Ode to the Legends N Her Solo Exhibition Titled ‘Immortals’, Artist Rita Jhunjhunwala Has Painted Ilegendary Indian Figures Like Mahatma Gandhi and JRD Tata
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Many pi- for GT Edition September 25, 2017 oneers and leaders too were honoured by naming a road after them. But then, it Imaging: Ravinder Gusain, GT Network Do you support MS Dhoni’s strikes me: Road naming or renaming is nomination for Padma not the ultimate way to pay ode to a leader. Bhushan award? The immediate need is to build new roads movement I started when I urged them to FACE ON THE NOTE time to wash away all your sins and start Yes so as to connect people and repair old pot promote khadi and support indigenous I was against corruption and I still am. So, an honest journey. Can’t holes to safeguard against accidents. Then crafts. But then, I am told that the nation when I see my happy, smiling face on the Corruption is a disgrace to the nation as 90% No Say why do they take decades to address them hasn’t taken away its focus from Indian Indian currency, my heart sinks because I it blinds its people from differentiating 72% 54% but the name of a road is changed within a culture and clothing. Efforts are being feel that by printing my face on the note between the right and the wrong. 36% 81% few weeks only? made by designers, government and local you have made me an instrument in cor- 15% 18% 4% The focus should be on development, artisans to promote khadi and sarees too. ruption, which is so much prevalent in the I am happy to be back because the con- 0% everything else can wait. Local weavers and craftsmen are getting country. This is not what I really wanted. tours of India have changed and so have Results as on September 29, 2017 multiple platforms and India is being cel- But since you have decided to give your- its people. We have made great strides in SWADESHI KHADI ebrated everywhere. self another chance and discarded all the fields like art, culture, science and tech- Coming Next Seeing everyone around me in western at- Progress means to preserve our own cul- old notes in the demonitisation drive, I nology, but you all should pause for a mo- Clean India tires came as a disappointment. People tural heritage and create a balance be- hope my new avatar refrains you from ment and think, is this the India we all seem to have forgotten the Swadeshi tween east and west. coming back to the corruption cycle. Its freedom fighters really fought for?G T An ode to the legends n her solo exhibition titled ‘Immortals’, artist Rita Jhunjhunwala has painted Ilegendary Indian figures like Mahatma Gandhi and JRD Tata. She tells GT Network why it is important to reinforce their memories and celebrate their greatness. Self-taught artist Portraits of legends I don’t follow any trends or This exhibition of portraits of school of thought because I am some extraordinary people, who a self-taught artist. I paint from are no more with us, is my way of my own instinct and what paying tribute to them. While inspires and influences me. To greatness is certainly no exclu- enhance my works, I use sive preserve of our civilization – Five artistic strokes textual elements and relevant as Rabindranath Tagore thought, Artwork on Salt March historical moments and then one should ‘glory in the light of 1. Ultimate art work: use them as reference in my the lamp lit anywhere’ - I have global map, I have painted Creative outlet Brahmacharis by Amrita Sher-Gil works. In my ongoing show, chosen to portray only Indians Father of the Nation more than I think humans, great or 2. An artist you would like to work the portraits of the legends are for the time being. For me, its once. This is because I feel it is otherwise, are invariably riddled with: A. Ramchandran not merely renditions of recovery of faith in humanity - at important to reinforce his memo- with imperfections, I believe that 3. Favourite art subject you like to faces, they capture an entire a time when our moral, spiritual, ries in today’s time. His values it should not hold us back from paint: The 5 Elements of Nature personality. For instance, the cultural and social values are rap- and opinions and how he propa- celebrating the lives of those who 4. The best compliment received: idea of Jai Jawan Jai Kisan idly shrinking. gated peace, love and compas- through their sacrifice and hard When someone recently saw my that Lal Bahadur Shastri sion is important to recollect. I work have left the world richer works and was so moved that she espoused has stayed with Gandhi, our hero have painted him with Jawaharlal than before. I am just a means to had tears in her eyes. me since my childhood While I have tried to highlight Nehru, but I really like my work, highlight their stories and I am 5. Definition of paintings in one and I have used that stories of many leaders and Salt March because this particular using art to do that. line: Ability to put your soul on slogan as part of his prominent people who in their event gave a momentum to the (The exhibition is on at the Visual canvas. Artist Rita Jhunjhunwala portrait. own way have put India on the freedom movement. Arts Gallery until October 5) G T 2 Afghan refugee crisis THE GLOBAL TIMES THE GLOBAL Afghanistan is one of the world’s largest producers of displaced people in Afghanistan. The region continues but the majority of these refugees are hosted by just World at a glance refugees. They have a long history of displacement, to suffer because of the ongoing conflict and lack of two countries – Iran and Pakistan. International World Mirror starting from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in opportunities, as a result, people still take refugees in agencies warn of a humanitarian crisis here because of 1979 which led to the first wave of the internal other countries. This exodus of people leaving the the civil war. displacement and people fleeing to neighbouring country has put pressure on Afghanistan’s currency, From Syria to Myanmar, the world is grappling countries like Pakistan and Iran. While some of them already weakened by a sharp reduction in foreign came back when the war ended after a decade, the funds. According to the International Organization for | with refugee crisis. GT takes a look at what led to mountainous region descended into a civil war after Migration, in 2015, a staggering 12.96 percent of all 2,2017 OCTOBER MONDAY, their government toppled and Taliban seized control of citizens of Afghanistan live outside their country of refugee crisis in four main countries Kabul and introduced hardline version of Islam. origin. The United Nations refugee agency reports that Natives again started to fled and took shelter in there are approximately 2.6 million registered Afghan different countries. There are over a million internally refugees that are dispersed throughout 70 countries, News and Views News and Syrian refugee crisis Germany 589,700 ■Rohigya Crisis Source: Where the Al Jazeera and agencies world’s Syrian war started in 2011 after last updated Sep 2017 the pro-democracy demonstra- Syrian Refugee ■ Syrian Crisis Source: displaced tions inspired by the Arab Afghan Refugee BBC World and UNHCR people Spring erupted. 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