Art goes green

After a series of fests,plantation drives,campaigns and theatre activities,Saplings-Care,an NGO,will now host a painting exhibition for the cause of environment. As many as 62 artists from nine cities,including Bheem Malhotra,Sanjay Kumar,Anjali Aggarwal,Parmod Arya and Sanjeev Srivastava are expected to participate in the exhibition ‘Earth Connection’,to be hosted at the Government Arts Museum,Sector 10,on August 4-6. “The proceeds will be given away to Rotary Club,Chandigarh,” says Saplings-Care president,Neenu Vij. Besides,three documentaries will also be showcased.

The exhibition will be inaugurated at 5:30 pm on August 4.

Seriously Comic

‘Mrs Njoku’,a spirited solo performance by actor-director Maya Krishna Rao was staged at Delhi’s Meghdoot Theatre last Thursday. Based on Nigerian novelist Chimammanda Ngozi Adichie’s short story,the comedy follows the character of a housewife whose daughter has just returned from the US. She harbours a distaste for her mother’s “bourgeois” ways and wants to marry a Kenyan. Mrs Njoku is not too happy to see the transformation. And Rao seemed to have nailed it with her zest as she created a vibrant and colourful character through a heavy accent and ostentatious mannerisms of a neurotic mother.Pallavi Pundir