NAGPUR: With a view to pass on the rich history of city through three generations, Basoli Group, Bal Jagat and Orange City Cultural Foundation jointly organized a painting exhibition ‘Orange City on Canvas — Visualization from Gond Raja to Metro project’ at Bal Jagat, in Laxmi Nagar, on Sunday. Filmmaker Jabbar Patel was the chief guest.The exhibition hosted 50 groups — each having three members from three generations. Close to 50 children, 50 patrons and 50 skilled artists participated in the exhibition and made paintings depicting a long-forgotten characteristic of the city. 3D models capturing the essence of city — crowded streets of Mahal, Ram Jhula, meandering Nag river and various other streetscapes made by the students of Institute of Design Education and Architectural Studies (IDEAS) were also displayed.“Our city has a vast history of 315 years which ages back to Gond period, but unfortunately, children today don’t know much about it. So, we wanted these children to know where their roots lie,” said the president of Basoli group Chandrakant Channe.“These paintings will be a mirror of where we have come from and where they we are going. We would also get to visualize how these little ones envision the city’s past and future. It is a transformation of concept between three generations,” he added.Talking about the concept, he said, “Children’s parents or the second generation might have seen some glory — some hearsay stories which they can tell these kids. The older people who have witnessed the historical background guided the group as a mentor. After a lot of deliberation and discussion, the team came up with these ideas which they painted today.”A student of Std VI Vaishnavi Chimurkar, who was drawing on canvas for the first time, said, “Our topic was ‘marbat’ and I haven’t really attended it. My grandmother helped me out with lots of stories of marbat procession and why it is carried out. I was surprised to know that it happens only in Nagpur.”Another student Kasturi Charde of Std VIII drew the historical Matru Seva Sangh hospital at Jhansi Rani Square. “I didn’t know that there was such a hospital, and I came to know here that it was the first maternity hospital of the city. This has been an interesting experience,” she said.

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