hussain defamed

ramayana made
into ramlila farce

By Kulamarva Balakrishna

Vienna,12-11-2007:A depraved Brahmana, that is ten headed monster King of Sri Lanka, the villain of Valmiki Ramayana, a creative work, over written several thousand times by as many prose and poetry writers in different parts of South and South East Asia, Ravana is known for his piety and craze for beautiful women.In fact most of the fantastic versions of the =adi kavya= (the first creative literature),with the exception of a few show him to be a bad character of the worst type.He made austerities to accumulate power and use that power to satiate his sensual lust. (In contrast, Lunar King Yayati married asura guru Shukra´s daughter Devayani, with two thousand servant maids including Sharmistha.He wanted to borrow a son´s youth.All the sons, excepting the youngest born of the servant maid Sharmistha, Puru would not oblige.Puru lent his father his
youth for a thousand long years so that his father could enjoy sensual life for much longer.In return, Yayati nominated this youngest son to be the inheritor to the throne as recorded by Mahabharata, considered itihasa,history.)

allah is not visual

My Artist friend Maqbool Fida Hussain got India in Berlinale International Film Festival for India the Goden Palm award for his =Through the Eyes of a Painter= silent film.That recognition made him respectable and enabled him,then the father of eight, the last being Owais, to make Haj.Then he got interest to paint gods and goddesses.( Since in Islam god is invisible nobody can paint god.
Even though it is not permitted to represent the Prophet, artists who do not care have adorned the Holy Q´uran in Persia and India under Mughals have made his illustrations in manuscripts. Today these are objects of art cost in millions of dollars. If Hinduism abstains from gods representation then there is sense in objecting god´s paintings. Not other wise).Hussain began painting Ramayana commenced since many of his friends wanted the gods painted by him in their collections.It was, we should remember, a Hindu business man, who contracted Hussain to turn out almost a hundred million dollars worth paintings a year for their joint venture.That was how he was persuaded to paint Hindu themes.Ramayana was the first theme in the early seventies as for his religious painting soon after he returned from Haj.At the time, I published his sketches of Ramayana in my Hi young people´s newspaper, then new to India, as leading =underground= newspaper,with the heading = Ramayana by Haji=.Long before that,in his early career Hussasin made posters for cinemas made on mythological themes.That was the time he was studying art.At that time,he lived in a garrage on the Grant Road,bordering of Bombays red light district, as he could not afford expensive apartment.His posters included Ravi Varma type realistic paintings of the heroines meant for then unborn Bollywood marketing.

basics of painting

Any student of art is aware a painting is not substitute to photography.He learns it is a creative work taking the bare minimum of the suggestive lines presenting colours visually for an aesthetic appeal.The grammar of painting involves composition of balancing figures, or points of contrast or matching colours,shades,texure, mass order and disorder as if a visual orchestra.Just as only those who have an idea of music can appreciate musical compositions,creative works of art are inspired and appealing only to those,who know the rudiments and understand the fundamentals of visuals created on paper or canvass with different media.

I am confronted by a several round forward forwards published in the blog of The Times of India´s fundamentalist columnist Tarun Vijay.There is a painting of the ten headed monster brahman Ravana,standing erect naked.A naked beauty shows her back to him her buttocks almost touching his torso.A bit safe distance a monkey,obviously Hanuman in search of Sita in Ravana´s harem.The monkey is naturally naked,can not be otherwise, just because some people like to believe that the particular monkey is god.He was elevated to god hood because of his perforamnce in Ramayana later. I would like to point out that so many Indians believe the cow is mother.But how many Indians dressed their mother cows with saris? Does Tarun Vijay´s cow mother wears a Banarasi or Kanjeevaram sari I am curious to know this to estimate the level of the columnist´s i.q. In the first place it is stupid to think a monkey as a dressed up tail wagging human.His complaint that monkey is shown as monkey to defame Hinduism can be described nothing less than mental derangement.

Abdul Karim Khan

Does Tarun Vjay know that the founder of Kirana Gharana of Khayal Singers, Abdul Karim Khan
died in 1948 singing on a railway platform between Madras and Calcutta the praise of Hindu
gods? Has he cared to listen to Dagar Brothers dhrupad singing =udho kare= for Hindu gods?
Taradevi, Sitara Devi, Gopikrishna who made Kathak popular how do you consider them? Hindus or Muslims? Prejudices are not qualities in an intellectual even of the Hindu variety.

Just about the Hussain painting scene.In Ramayana Sundara Kanda section is were Valmiki describes Hanuman monkey´s search for hijacked Sita.He goes all over the beautiful Sri Lanka
city, created by Mayas.Every house he enters first by taking a minute form,since he had the knowledge of =ashta siddhis= (eight achievements including being minutes and the largest) then when excited jumping like a monkey kissing his own tail.The monster brahmana King Ravana´s inner harem was designed like a plane.There was a mini theatre for the king to enjoy with his harem mates.There he saw female instrumentalists, singers,dancers,maids and of course play girls side by side the most beautiful woman known in her time, Mandodari, the daughter of Maya,the queen of the monster brahmana king. He was excited. It is said Mandodari was the biological mother of Sita and she looked like the daughter.In some versions of Ramayana Sita is openly depicted as the daughter of Mandodari,born of the monster brahmin.Because astrologers making baby´s birth charts,who turned the shells moving their palm around them predicted this girl would cause the father´s death, she was abandoned in a field superficially covering the baby child by plough soil,from where she derives the name Sita.Yogi King Janaka, who was preparing the field for =havan=,fire sacrifice, found in the field the abandoned female baby. He took her home as his own daughter of luck.Monkey Hanuman saw the beautiful Mandodari to mistake her to be Sita. (Ramayana/sundara kanda).At first it was the cause of unbounded happiness having located the missing Sita.As we will mark the excitement of Tarun Vijay later.He jumps, forgetting himself screaches, pulls his tail by the hand to kiss it again and again.Then climbs the wooden pillars around the mini-theater where many women are asleep with their musical instruments.Unbelievable but for a moment the monkey lost his composure. Just for a while.Then Hanuman realized Sita was no ordinary girl.He could not contenance her to be there.He decided to continue the search out side the enclosed houses in Sri Lanka which led him to the =ashoka vanika= garden.

When he finally found her in the garden, he was careful immediately not to expose himself before Sita. He considered the pros and cons of presenting himself before Sita and speaking to her like a human in Sanskrit language of the humans.It is recorded by the poet Valmiki.So who told Tarun Vijay or other defamers of Maqbool Fida Hussain by the painting he meant Sita not Mandodari or other play girls in the harem I would like to ask for clarity.There are no recorded pictures of Sita. Her form is left to our imagination.After all if these sensitive Hindus go to a court of law they have to produce evidence. On how Sita looked in the first place. Then more questions from cross examining lawyers like the late A.S.R.Chari questioning the late sheths Shreyans Prasad Jain or Ramnath Goenka or Jain employee P.K.Roy.

contemporary figures

As for the paintings of the contemporary men or women according to style some key likeness matters.The rest are free expression by a creatice artist not a camera.So comparing daughters or mothers to imaginary gods´ representations is nothing but insane.It is like claiming Lord Ganapathi drank cow´s milk offered to him. It is the believer´s belief. Not reality, Tarun Vijay, you Panchajanya boy.You should know in Bhubhaneshvar there is the great Lingaraja Temple.There is a giant stone =linga= mounted on =yoni=.That is to say the unseparable =Ardhanareeshvara= Shiva and Parvathi together are represented by their genitals not by illustrations.On that =linga= worshiped even today, remain one thousand carved mini =linga=s without mini =yonis=.Old sculptors expressed their artistic freedom in chiselling them. Hussain used similar freedom nothing more.

Other pictures in the blog refers to =Shri= Parvathi.Since when these Hindu fundies like Tarun Vijay began addressing goddesses by male prefixes? Draupadi is another painting.Draupadi is famous because of the failed attempt by Dusshasana to disrobe her.That was indeed depcited in
the painting.She was wearing a single sari as described in Mahabharata because as the
custom of the time women in period did not wear a second piece of cloth.It is clearly described
=eka vastram, rajasvalam= ( one piece wearing Draupadi in her period).Another picture
is said to be that of Lakshmi guarded by Ganapathi.I know Ganapathi is the creation of Parvati
goddess,soon after creation she assigned him to guard her bathroom door as she went for shower. She had gone under shower.Ganapathi remained guarding outside.Even Shiva did not know Ganapathi had been created by Parvathi, when he came there the boy Ganapathi stood in his way. The picture composition showed the under shower goddess and the guarding son. What is strange about it?Can Tarun Vijay explain? What is objectionable here is the mean mindedness of the Hindu fundies, who do not know Hinduism but label themselves as Hindus.It is the same Tarun Vijay, who offered his comfortable lap as pillow for the Americal girl friend of a Pakistani Jihadist to bury her face when weather turned turbulent on a flight from Shanghai to California or wherever they happen to fly together by accident.He used The Times of India space for narrating the episode.

By condemning Hussain Tarun Vijay has indeed shown he has mistaken for a while like his monkey god or he is a mental case.(end)