[Reader-list] images from Kashmir

[Pawan Durani]

Inder Ji ,

With all respect to you and your artistic vision, I still am unable to
understand why does any ones [ even yours ] artistic vision arise at the
cost of Indian nation or Hinduism as a religion.

Why not at the cost of others ?

I saw your website / blog and found you standing naked on Martand (sun)
temple . Would you dare to do the same thing at other religious place of
worship ?

I would wait for your answer and your demonstration to prove your point.


With regards

Pawan Durani


On 10/22/07, inder salim <indersalim at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Pawan
>
> without mincing words, please feel free to call me an idiot. I am.
> This is what i feel as a human being in this animal world. In parts i
> feel that this animal thing is within too,  and that is what i want to
> confront. Of course, there are given norms ( usually aesthetic ) for a
> an artist to follow and realize her/his true being, but as on date i
> doubt everything, may be it is my problem,  but this gives me strength
> to sabatoge everything, everything.
>
> I believe, I am dancing with the sacred and the profane
> simultaneously As Ghalib suggests  that ' let us merge Heaven and Hell
> for a new space for a morning walk or so'.  You are free to  dance
> with what you want to but i create a space for myself and for those
> who want to do things differently. We are obsessed to read political
> in everything, if the image cleverly  suggests so. But i guess every
> blade of grass in Kashmir is not bereft of politics. Please read the
> foliage around the emtpy grave stone of Maqbool Bhat. or not even, how
> does it matter, he is not there even. But this empty grave has created
> a content within the form of Kashmir conflict. You will agree there, i
> guess.
>
> If there is some ' artist' inside me then i must have also played the
> role of an observer in the  valley. I remember, the role of Barbareek
> in Mahabharata. He was beheaded, not only because he hurt the foot of
> dear Lord Krishna with his sharp dancing magical arrow, but he
> believed that his skills are always at the service of the weak, the
> opressed. In short he was unable to celebrate a war winner. Now for
> the real players of the war this is most unusal. So he agreed to play
> the role of a witness to the war. Imagine the pain of a head which is
> living withiout the body. Imagine such a set of eyes which can not
> move to action and decide.  It is a quite paradoxical, that is what
> charms me, spiritually also.
>
> Was Barbareek an artist?  Just before the legendary Virath Sarup, I
> guess, Arjuna also wanted to be an artist , but the Lord denied him a
> chance to be. In this sense there is nothing celebratory to be an
> artist as conventionally we know, but to be an artist, means to outwit
> the Lord even. Barbareek indeed outwitted the Lord.
>
> Artists as on date are trying to play some role in the on going issues
> of the world, but deep down we all know that art is a very small force
> in the world now. It is run by big things, the market, the religion,
> the war, and the politics which emerges from the dynamics of all this.
>
> I am really surprised when i hear that the cartoons, or a book, or a
> demonstration is taking a centre stage in the politics or media, But
> believe me, the real players of the game are hardly worried abuot
> these things. Again what is really intersting that the people in
> general react to the such things, and that is what works as opium for
> artists.
>
> I am happy that u reacted to the images, May be that would give me
> some more inspiration to do more.  i am usually so lonely. My audience
> is my 'muse'
>
> lot of love
> is
>
> On 10/22/07, Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Inder ,
> >
> > Isnt this Maqbool Butt the one who had looted a bank and later killed
> the
> > Bank Manager. Does he deserve to e called a Saheed - E-Azam ?
> >
> > Disappointed with your ideas and thoughts !!!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/20/07, inder salim <indersalim at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > 1. Idd Gah, Srinagar, text: Mustaq Ahmad PANDIT  s/o Abdul Gaffar
> Pandit
> > >
> > > 2. Idd Gah, Srinagar, Text: Saheed-e-Azam, Mohd. Maqbool Bhat, Date of
> > > Martydom, 11th of Feb. 1982.   The  People of Kashmir are still
> > > waiting for his mortal remains to be buried here which are still with
> > > Govt of India. ( practically the grave is empty or.. )
> > >
> > > 3. Self Portrait in Al-e-Hachi ( dried vegetable bottle gourd, Gia )
> > > used by Kashmiris during winter
> > >
> > > 4. Amirakadal Srinagar, a view
> > > 5. Security man upon the shiva temple roof in Verinag.
> > > 6. Routine checking in down town srinagar
> > > 7. Abandoned hosue opposite CRPF post.
> > >
> > > please click
> > >
> > >
> > > http://indersalim.livejournal.com
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