by Shariq H Naqvi is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India License.
Save us. by Shariq H Naqvi is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India License.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Save us.
by Shariq H Naqvi is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India License.
Save us. by Shariq H Naqvi is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India License.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Earth, man and creations...
Earth, man and creations... by Shariq H Naqvi is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India License.
From traditional household utensils to clay furniture, clay plays an integral part in the life of Indians.
Clay culture, an ancient form of art, is as fascinating as snake charmers and computer geeks that have captivated foreign audiences.
45 years old potter, Rajinder Singh, says he inherited this art form from his father. Playing with clay was a childhood enthrallment that later became my profession. Rajinder’s wife Maya Devi who also makes clay pots however feels their children never showed any interest in this form of art.
Clay a refined form of soil is utilized extensively across India. Since the Harrapa civilization, clay has acclaimed traditional importance.
Singh adds with a witty humor that poor people in India still use earthen pots to store and cool water while refrigerators are a property for rich folks.
An age old history to support this form of art also tells about the sculpture making as a traditional craft.
While shaping fingers of an earthen goddess idol, Ajay Kumar Haldar, a sculpture maker says it is creativity mixed with interest, and use of clay in sculpture making is an interesting hobby.
In the recent times Plaster of Paris (POP) is proving biggest challenge for these creative clay artists. POP as compared to clay costs less and one does not need to slog much while designing sculptures.
Kamala Singh, a housewife who decorates her house with clay decorative says earthen pots have their own importance. During Diwali, (festival of lights), Diyas(small earthen pot) made of clay are still used to garnish houses and also Gamlas (earthen pot) are used to grow plants and are significant for those who want to make theirs gardens look good.
Not only for embellishment, clay is still, used by rural or poor class in India for plastering walls and make kuccha houses (temporary/ delicate).
Clay culture, an ancient form of art, is as fascinating as snake charmers and computer geeks that have captivated foreign audiences.
45 years old potter, Rajinder Singh, says he inherited this art form from his father. Playing with clay was a childhood enthrallment that later became my profession. Rajinder’s wife Maya Devi who also makes clay pots however feels their children never showed any interest in this form of art.
Clay a refined form of soil is utilized extensively across India. Since the Harrapa civilization, clay has acclaimed traditional importance.
Singh adds with a witty humor that poor people in India still use earthen pots to store and cool water while refrigerators are a property for rich folks.
An age old history to support this form of art also tells about the sculpture making as a traditional craft.
While shaping fingers of an earthen goddess idol, Ajay Kumar Haldar, a sculpture maker says it is creativity mixed with interest, and use of clay in sculpture making is an interesting hobby.
In the recent times Plaster of Paris (POP) is proving biggest challenge for these creative clay artists. POP as compared to clay costs less and one does not need to slog much while designing sculptures.
Kamala Singh, a housewife who decorates her house with clay decorative says earthen pots have their own importance. During Diwali, (festival of lights), Diyas(small earthen pot) made of clay are still used to garnish houses and also Gamlas (earthen pot) are used to grow plants and are significant for those who want to make theirs gardens look good.
Not only for embellishment, clay is still, used by rural or poor class in India for plastering walls and make kuccha houses (temporary/ delicate).
Jawahar, Jinnah or Jaswant: Who is right?
Jawahar, Jinnah or Jaswant: Who is right? by Shariq H Naqvi is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India License.
The truth shall prevail till the end and the person who supports it has to face the music at large. This phenomenon is and will prevail till the dooms day. But one who has the courage to support truth and the only truth has to lose much in this mortal world. Ravana a greatest scholar of his time–who even endangered the custodians of the Heavens–is now considered to be the part of evil, only because he was on the evil path and against truth. Similarly, Jaswant Singh–considered to be the Ravana by the fanatic Muslims–suddenly emerged as one of the greatest socialist Indian of the present era.
The cost of speaking the truth resulted in expulsion of the founder member of the BJP that too not personally but through an official meeting. The winner from the Darjeeling parliamentary seat in the 2009 general election and a towering personality of the world diplomacy suddenly was pushed to the valleys of controversies. The book—Jinnah: India Partition Independence authored by Jaswant Singh advocated that the Quaid-E-Aazam: Jinnah, Father of Pakistan: Jinnah is not the person responsible for the partition of Greater India into two states with the communal dagger but it was a diplomatic and political poison which resulted from the sallied selfish and unethical diplomacy of the first Prime Minister of India Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru and the Iron-man of India Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Only these two are responsible which perverted India on to the communal tracks.
For the time being and under the present political uproar in the country this book may be considered as the suicidal note by Jaswant Singh. But truth shall prevail and who knows that 60 years down line from today someone will pen in favour of Jaswant Singh portraying him to be a curtain raiser of the one-sided theory which Congress has enchanted to the Indian through a diplomatic communalism.
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