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BARNALA BATHINDA Bassi Pathana GURDASPUR
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KANGRA KUMARHATTI
Regional potpourri COLOUR PLUS She has been chosen
Artist of the Month for September by Custom Poster Works Inc., USA.
This month’s CPW newsletter circulated online worldwide says: “As
one can see, Monika Sharma of India is an artist with extremely
versatile talent. She has extensive experience working in the
publicity and advertising field and has had success in media from
slick advertising pieces to simple, yet elegant drawings. Since 2004,
she has been the art director and owner of Yellow Leaves, a studio of
art and advertising in Rohtak, India.” Born into a family of timber merchants, as a child Monika was more interested in music than painting. But, she also loved to draw on scraps of paper. When she was seven, her grandfather gifted her crayons and a scrapbook. That ultimately proved to be the deciding factor and she went on to graduate from the Chandigarh College of Art. Her first full-time job was in Delhi, where agencies like J. Walter Thomson, Lowe and McCann Erickson later gave her an opportunity to tap her talent. But then the disease struck and she found she could no longer live alone in a metropolis. She then shifted to Rohtak, where she set up a studio and designed small campaigns for several projects. Despite frequent travelling, she manages to paint enough canvases for sale to make both ends meet. Most of her works are sold through her website. Memories of the
mutiny
With a view to reminding the local
residents of the sacrifices made by the Haryanavis in the uprising of
1857, the state government recently organised an exhibition of
paintings showcasing Haryana’s contribution to the event. The
three-day exhibition was organised on the campus of Maharshi Dayanand
University at Rohtak and will be subsequently organised in Rewari,
Hisar and Kurukshetra districts. The visitors evinced a keen interest in the paintings, especially those of Hudson Horse, Rohtak, and the historical well of Rohnat village. Rohnat village, which fell under Hisar district then, was auctioned by the Britishers in 1858 as its residents had refused to obey their orders. As
the persons disobeying the British rulers were reportedly burnt alive,
many inhabitants of Rohnat village jumped into this well to avoid
punishment. Along with the well, the painting also shows the “peepal”
tree which was used by the Britishers to hang the revolutionaries. The Hudson Horse painting shows a struggle among horse-riders. The communiqué sent by Captain Hudson from Kharkhauda on August 17, 1857, stating that 17 horse-riders had been killed, was also put up at the exhibition. Besides, several other paintings and rare documents depicting various aspects of the uprising were also displayed. Contributed by Raman Mohan and Sunit Dhawan
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At 32, Monika Sharma, a professional
painter, is making waves in art circles despite suffering from
multiple sclerosis, a debilitating disease. 
