Dr. Charu WaliKhanna, Member, NCW inaugurated exhibition “Paint for Justice” on 08.11.2012 at New Delhi , organized by Nijh World Society.

Shri Arun Kumar Jha, DG-NIESBUD was Special guest.

The exhibition will continue for one week with different events in which Hon’ble Justice Gyan Sudha Misra, Justice Supreme Court and Mr. Oscar Fernandes, Member of Parliament will be the Guests of Honour.

Ms. Harinansha Bhardwaj introducing the exhibition said that the paintings were based on real life experiences from different parts of the country. The artists highlighted burning issues of the society in the hope to join hands together and find solutions. The paintings portrayed the pathos and sorrow in society created by social problems.

Dr. Charu WaliKhanna, Member was deeply moved by the real event experiences depicted in the paintings specially those relating to female feticide, dowry and child marriage which are burning issues facing the country.

Dr. Charu WaliKhanna, Member said that a picture is worth a thousand words; for a visual not only leaves a deep impression, but also provokes one to think deeply. An artist’s efforts to draw attention to the need for change is a significant method of raising the consciousness of a nation. The emergence of art as social protest is particularly notable.

Member said in India the Bengal Renaissance countered western colonial materialistic influences, as well as Muslim influences in Indian culture, by the infusion of spiritual ideas. It was the cultural ideology of nationalism. Tagore was invited by Mahatma Gandhi to the sessions of the Indian National Congress and produced posters for the Congress in 1938.

Dr Charu WaliKhanna stressed that today the independent nation of India is dealing with challenges of castes, class and gender violence, and the work of the artists in addressing social problems, specially those relating to women, in their artistic imagery is highly appreciable.

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