In their day jobs, they all spend hours in the OT cutting, stitching and fixing their patients.They are all passionate surgeons, but what they are also passionate about is art, be it painting or photography. These people believe that it’s always good to say something meaningful when someone asks what else do you do? So they take time out of their busydays and indulge in their passion whenever they can.
And they all have a streak of being different to their persons. If Dr. Sreenivasa Murthy, a busy ENT surgeon, spends hours to painting life in all its grandeur and colour on his humongous canvases, Dr Venkatachala likes to escape into the wild and unwind with tigers and leopards from time to time as a respite from his oncology practice. Dr.Prashanth, meanwhile, likes to put away the endoscope occasionally to look a spider in the eye with his macros, while Dr.Rakesh, a right-handed cancer surgeon, prefers to let his left hand do the talking on his canvas. When he’s not working on an open chest, Dr.Sreekar seeks refuge in his palette and his favourite subject, Lord Ganesha. Dr Manjunath is an avid photographer as well as a painter when he’s not professing over surgery in Bangalore Medical College. Dr Himagirish Rao juggles his laparosocopy and endocrine surgery practice with escapades off the map, looking for trains – yes, railway trains – he pursues the arcane hobby of railfanning.
This weekend, these surgeons from various backgrounds get together to present Shastra Kale – Chitra Kale’, a painting and photography exhibition at Chitrakala Parishath,Bangalore’s place-to-be for artists and aficionados alike. Coming from the line of workthey do, they are acutely aware of the challenges of cancer care and wish to donate proceeds from the exhibition to the this cause.
The surgical society of Bangalore, of which these doctors are all members is organising this event. In 2023 SSB is celebrating its golden jubilee. The dynamic President Dr. K.L.Venkatesh, Paediatric Surgeon at a Victoria Hospital is very passionate about out reach of the surgeons to the public.
Where: Devaraj urs Art Gallery, Chitrakala Parishath, Kumarakripa Road, Bangalore
When: 8th, 9th and 10t December, 2023. 10am – 7pm.
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