Rajinder Kaur Pasricha, a lecturer in Fine Arts at the Government College for Girls in Patiala, and her `Donna in our Culture' are the fortnight's fare at the Indus Ind Art Gallery. ``I wanted to show the stages in a woman's life and how a woman is instrumental in upholding our culture and heritage,'' Rajinder told Newsline. So we see woman as a small child sitting on the threshold of her house with a doll in her arms. With an apt azure backdrop, Rajinder has hinted at the womanly instinct that gets into being at a very young age. She goes on to show the spring in a girl's life through two charming ones swinging away in an engulfed green canvas.

You see the woman as a maker of home and hearth in apt hues and backdrops. If her lighting the `choola' has an amber shade, then you see the contemplative bride in all red. The woman in Rajinder's scheme of things weaves the yarn, churns the curd and waits for her husband, indirectly weaving her own yarn and churning out untold stories in silence. Intriguingly, after the ritualistic night procession preceding a wedding in a cleverly crafted colour composition, it is to an encounter with the vultures that Rajinder takes us.