In our endeavour to raise funds for critically ill children we partnered with an art show titled “Parallel-intersections”  held at the India Habitat Center (New Delhi) from December 11-15, 2011. 

Manisha Kumar and Rahul Kumar, siblings, came together for the first time to show their respective art works under one roof.

Parallel-intersections  brought together the art of both the artists. Different media and varied sensibilities, yet siblings who grew up together; separate professional careers, along with a passion for artistic expression; paintings motivated from nature bringing together the delicate balance of man and nature using bold form of expression, ceramic art that deals with the play of opposite energies.

Manisha is a painter and a senior law professional. She lives and works in Mumbai. Rahul is a ceramic artist and as a profession he leads operations & research for a global consulting firm. He has won the national award for his art and is a Fulbright Scholar. He lives and works in Gurgaon.

 Genesis Foundation presents ‘The Joy of a New Harvest’, an exhibition by Siddharth Shingade who is originally from Mumbai and is an up and coming artist with a modest but endearing personality. His first solo art exhibition ‘Anitya’ held at Epicenter on September 26, 2008 was widely attended, greatly appreciated and a complete sellout. The art show is a continuation of painter’s imagery and muse of his native Marathwada, albeit, with a sprinkling of hope and emancipation in thought and process. He offers a unique synergy of styles that fuses abstract with figurative. Siddharth presents an outstanding repertoire.

The exhibition is available for your viewing on :

Sunday 26^th September-10^th October Gallery One, 4105 DLF City Phase 4,  Gurgaon

To support a cause Siddharth Shingade will donate 10% of the proceeds from this sale to Genesis Foundation.

For more inormation contact: Neeraj Ajmani @9910004900 

Genesis Foundation staged the English play Love on the Brink, directed by Lillete Dubey, as a fundraiser. The play premiered at Epicentre, Apparel House, Gurgaon on Sunday August 22, 2010. The event helped raise funds for 3 critically ill children suffering from cardiac disorders and  thalassemia. These children come from orphanages and under privileged homes where the family income is under Rs.5,000. For details of the children who will benefit from this support click here.

“Love on the Brink “

An absurdly comic tale about love and the pursuit of happiness  Produced and Directed by Lillete Dubey
Adapted by Sandhya Divecha (Based on the Tony Award Winning Broadway hit ‘Luv’ by Murray Schisgal)
Cast : Joy Sengupta, Kumud Mishra and Shivani Tanksale

 Synopsis :

‘ Love on the Brink ‘ is a wickedly satirical and brilliantly comic story about three people who meet unexpectedly one dark night at the edge of the sea front.

Sudipto Bandhopadhya ( Bandy), an existentialist intellectual who has sunk so low that honest existentialists would disown him. He has no future except to jump off into the sea and is about to do so, when Pankaj Chopra ( Chops) comes along and intervenes. Chops and Bandy turn out to be college classmates. Bandy, in his rags, reveals the depth of his despair, Chops a picture of prosperity, is all sympathy and then confesses that he too is full of frustration, because his wife won’t divorce him so he can marry the woman he loves.

Into this, Chops’ wife Amu appears, a beautiful and highly overeducated woman, and a triangle of the absurd ensues, that in the tradition of all great comedy revels in alienation, the loss of identity, inability to communicate, self expression and the meaninglessness of  it all. And the more their woes increase, the more we laugh, as we recognize our own lives in their incisively observed and wildly funny misadventures, as they struggle to understand life, love, success and the pursuit of happiness.

Genesis Foundation organised its very first play Brief Candle, the story dealt with cancer which is one of our areas of focus. It seemed appropriate as many of the children we have treated are afflicted with cancer. The fund raiser was very well received in both Delhi and Gurgaon.

Brief Candle is an English play written by Mahesh Dattani’s and produced and directed by Lillete Dubey. It is a poignant tale …tragic, humorous, farcical and finally elevating with a star cast of Suchitra Pillai, Joy Sengupta, Amar Talwar, Zafar Karachiwala, Satchit Puranik and Manasi Parekh.

The play is a farce with some extremely funny situations revolving around a hotel room near the airport. As the characters in the play await their departures, they end up in comic situations as they entangle themselves in surreptitious dalliances and complicated love affairs. The metaphor of arrivals and departures for life and death leaves them with a reflection of their own struggles and needs.

The play was premiered by GF on October 24th and 25th at Kamani Auditorium, Delhi and Epicentre, Apparel House, Gurgaon respectively. On each day there were 2 shows held. Our main sponsor was Aircel. other support sponsors were Max Foundation, Client Associates, SpiceJet, Red FM and HSBC.

The play within a play involves Jeevan Jyoti, a hospital and hospice for cancer and terminally ill patients. The founders have requested a cultural event on founder’s day. Dr Dave, Shanti and some of the terminally ill patients feel that a play written by an inmate who died of Aids related cancer will be an ideal choice.

The total proceeds of the play went towards saving the lives of more than 12 children in need of critical medical and financial support. The 2 shows held in Gurgaon where sold out as the Gurgaonites are very keen on theatre, art and culture.