
A riot of colour at ‘Varnangal’
The Hindu
Varnangal, an exhibition and sale of paintings by five women artists along with works by 10 VIP artistes, is under way at Flora Art Gallery at Oottukuzhy here.The exhibition features paintings by Remi
Varnangal, an exhibition and sale of paintings by five women artists along with works by 10 VIP artistes, is under way at Flora Art Gallery at Oottukuzhy here.
The exhibition features paintings by Remini Karunakaran, Beena Sunil, Viji R.K., Shali Thomas, and Rachel Jasper. All five women were at home in the wake of COVID-19, restless as life came to a near standstill. But soon they settled down and turned to art to beat the lockdown blues. Their creativity found expression in 75 paintings, big and small, that they are exhibiting till December 13.
Rachel Jasper, a former employee of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, says they are all students at Flora, but during the lockdown could not attend any classes at the Flora Institute of Arts and Crafts where the gallery is located, and hence began working on paintings. Guidance was given online by artist George Fernandez who runs Flora.

On December 23, the newly elected office bearers of the Anna Nagar Towers Club, led by its president ‘Purasai’ B. Ranganathan, who is a former MLA, met with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin and conveyed their greetings. According to a press release, besides, ‘Purasai’ B. Ranganathan, the Anna Nagar Towers Club delegation that met Stalin at Anna Arivalayam, the DMK Party headquarters, included vice-president R. Sivakumar, secretary R. Muralibabu, joint secretary D. Manojkumar, treasurer K. Jayachandran and executive committee members N. D. Avinash, K. Kumar, N. R. Madhurakavi, K. Mohan, U. Niranjan, S. Parthasarathi, K. Rajasekar, S. Rajasekar, M. S. Ramesh, R. Satheesh, N. C. Venkatesan and K. Yuvaraj. Karthik Mohan, deputy secretary of DMK’s Information Technology Wing, was present on the occasion.












