Beauty, Nudes and Art and Amrita Shergill.

When I was younger, I did have some talent as a artist.In those days I painted a lot, but my father was vehemently opposed to any study of art and so I fell in line with him and achieved a conventional degree and carried on in life. Still two or three of my paintings remain as a reminder to what I could have accomplished. Anyway that is old hat now, but my interest in art did not diminish and recently I spent a considerable amount of time witnessing and studying the paintings of Amrita Shergill at the Museum at Delhi.
The paintings are absolutely stunning. The best part are some lovely nudes of herself which stand out in the collection. Who was Amrita Shergill ? Not many may be knowing that she was a Sikh girl who died young at the age of 28. Her short life span however is a beacon to modern Indian painters. Born in 1913 of a Hungarian mother and Sikh father in Hungary, she died of a mysterious illness at Lahore in 1941. I have reproduced one of her paintings to give a reader the visual of the type of painter she was.

Goya's nude Duchess

Nudity , beauty and women from centuries have gone hand in hand. However It must be understood hat nudism per se is not art. But again most of the greats in the field of art have painted nudes as a form of self expression.
The famous painting by  Fransisco Goya of his love for the  Duchess of Alba led to one of arts greatest paintings. it set the tone of the greats being painted in the nude for posterity. As a follow up Brittany Spears got herself painted in the nude  in this century so as to leave her image behind for posterity.
Coming to Amrita  Shergill, she was certainly a genius and achieved more than painters in a life time. her paintings are raw and earthy and conform to the fact that a nude is Gods most wonderful creation. Her self portraits in the nude are there for posterity as a tribute to her skill and spirit. That is perhaps the reason the  ancients in India and Greece painted and sculpted nude women. Lastly we must remember that  a nude is a creative form of expression and perhaps  an erotic woman's painting is the ultimate in creativity.
I feel sad that Amrita died so young.One wonders what she could have achieved in a life time, but then  God has his own peculiar way of running the world.

Japanese Character:Complete Negation of Teachings of Buddha and Embracing Cruelity in WW II

 


  I have been intrigued a lot about the Japanese Character. I had a Japanese girl friend when I was doing a course in French. She was a nice girl and we drank endless cups of tea. I also learn't  that the  Japanese are mainly Buddhists.  The Buddha, as we all know renounced the pleasures and comforts of life and went away to seek enlightenment. He propagated a path to salvation that had as its main pillars non-violence, peace, friendship and respect  for human life.

However a look at the Japanese conduct during the last century and one wonders whether the Japanese Army and people really imbibed the teachings of Buddha. It appears they negated every concept enunciated by  Lord Buddha.

A look at the Japanese occupation of China is a point. In 1937 Emperor Hirohito issued a royal decree that Chinese soldiers captured were not to be treated as POW's. This resulted in the Japanese Army  butchering  over 57,000 POW's. Going further the Japanese Army started what is known as the 'rape of Nanking' and on their occupation of the city unleashed a terror that just cannot be imagined. More than 200,000 Chinese citizens were killed and over 100,000 women raped and then butchered with swords or simply shot.

I fail to understand the rationale of this Japanese conduct, particularly of a people who believed in Buddha. China was not the exception and they carried out such activities at other places as well.
The Japanese treatment of POW's of British and Australian origin was abhorrent and the Geneva Conventions thrown to the wind, with daily beheading and torture. No apologist for Japan has been able to explain this conduct of the Japanese. What was the reason for the Japanese to indulge in these massacres and tortures ? Perhaps scientists must study this aspect of the  Japanese character.  I cannot understand how the Japanese justify to themselves the complete negation of all that Buddha taught. It is an enigma to me

Why I admire Maummaer Gaddafi. * 75

Colonel Maummaer Gaddafi is the dictator of Libya and has been in power for nearly 42 years.He was for a long time an untouchable to the west as he exported all forms of terrorism. But Gaddafi had a change of heart and he offered to pay compensation to the victims next of kin of his terror attacks. London, Paris and Rome then invited him to visit them. For long Gaddafi has been a champion of Islam and even during his last visit to Italy in 2010, he exhorted the Italian girls to convert to Islam.

All this may show that Gaddafi is a hard line Moslem, but there is a twist to this as he is targeted by hard line Islamic fighters as 'evil' and many assassination attempts have been carried out by Islamic fundamentalists. Why would Islamic hard liners want to kill Gaddafi ?  This is not an enigma, but a fact as Gaddafi has defied Islamic hard line interpretation of Islam and for this reason he certainly has my admiration.

The biggest reason the Islamic hard line terror groups want to kill Gaddafi is because he has brought women out of the purdah and the Hijab.He has given them a sense of identity. One can't but help admire Gaddafi for this. The Colonel has recruited women guards, who have none of the trappings of a hard line Islam.  They wear make up( which is anathema to Islam) and do not wear the nikab as they move with aplomb with guns slung across their shoulders. This is contrary to what Islamic hard liners can tolerate. For this alone Gaddafi deserves admiration.

I for one hold no brief for Gaddafi, but he has done more for women in Islam than anybody else and I admire him for it.
Update
Much water has flown down the river and Gaddafi is now no more. Overthrown by US special forces in conjunction with hard line Muslim groups. Gaddafi has been executed and now Libya is a state where extremist Islamic thought flourishes..

The Amazon Brigade of M Gaddafi-President of Libya

 A look at the girls in uniform in the photograph will warm the heart of any cockerel. But friends beware these girls are the personal body guards of Colonel Maummaer Gaddafi , the President of Libya. .


It is a well known fact that those who ride the tiger are eaten by the tiger. But this has not happened in the case of Gaddaffi and he has survived many attempts on his life. Those attempts to kill him, perhaps made him think of a fool proof plan for his security and he hit upon the idea of having female security guards.

The world was witness to these female body guards when Gaddaffi arrived in France on a state visit last year where he was flanked by 30 beautiful guards dressed in blue uniforms. All of them were armed and the popular perception was that they were all ‘virgins’. This of course cannot be vouchsafed.

The body guards are handpicked by Gaddaffi and a look at them will show that they have none of the Islamic trappings about them. The security girls do not hide themselves under a burqua or the hijab.They wear nail varnish, perfumes and lipstick and also style their hair to fit under their caps. They also wear high heels to give them a lovely look. But these girls are also adept at handling guns and can fire them if the need arises.

All the selected girls are trained at a special school and learn to handle fire arms and master the martial arts. Those that pass out successfully after due vetting by Gaddaffi are absorbed as his bodyguards.

The leader is accompanied every where by these girl body guards. In such a scenario the rumors abound and lot many people mention that most of these girls pander to the sexual whims of Gaddaffi. The girls are really motivated as can be seen from the fact that one of the body guards named Aisha was killed and 7 others wounded in an assassination attempt on Gaddaffi in 1998 when Islamic fundamentalists had ambushed his motorcade.  Incidentally Aisha was  the favorite of Gaddaffi.The bodyguard had thrown herself as a human shield and saved Gaddaffi. Gaddaffi is now facing the biggest challenge in the form of popular agitations against his rule, after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak. His body guards  have their work cut out for them.

Barack Hussain Obama-44th President of the USA

 How many people are aware that Barack Hussain Obama the present President of the USA was born a Muslim. He also attended 2 years schooling  in a Madrasa ( Islamic religious School). We also know that holy month of Ramadan was from 11 August 10 to sept 2010. In a press conference during that period  Obama was not wearing his wedding ring nor was he wearing his watch.

When noticed, his staff said his ring was out for repairs. No reason was given for the missing watch.
So it’s just a coincidence that Muslims are forbidden from wearing jewelry during the month of Ramadan???
 Add to this his withdrawal from Iraq and throwing in the towel in Afghanistan and his Cairo university speech where he said 'America will never be or ever was at war with the Muslim world'. Silly, it is the Muslim clergy who has declared America the Great Satan.
I am thinking and dear friend please do so also.

Obama is at the fag end of his term. What is his contribution? Frankly I ddon't see anything except repeated speeches where he always said that there is no danger from islam. Sir, Is he right ?

Where is Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh ?- Under the Chair like the Proverbial Cat in the Fairy tale.

I would like to reproduce in full the article by B Raman, so that people can read it and realize that this Prime Minister needs to be dealt with as enunciated byField Marshal Manekshaw ' Those who talk by the yard, perform by the inch, deserve a kick by the foot'.Wednesday, February 16, 2011


WHAT A FALL WAS THERE, MY COUNTRYMEN

B.RAMAN

Dear Mr. Prime Minister,



Like millions of ordinary Indians, I too watched from the beginning till the end your televised interaction with selected journalists from the electronic media on February 16,2011.
You had never spoken to us, the ordinary people of India, on the various scams which have rocked the country one after another since August last year. Our only source of information has been the media.
As the citizens of this country who put your party in power, we had a right to expect that you will talk to us and explain to us what is the truth and how you intend arresting and reversing the rot that has set in and the continuing decline in the credibility and image of India as a result of the stories of these scams .
These stories---whether correct wholly or only partly--- have brought out one thing loud and clear--- the ineptitude and incompetence of your Government, the poor supervision which seems to prevail in many Ministries and offices, including the Prime Minister's Office, and the insensitivity of many senior members of your Cabinet to public concerns over these alleged scams.
Corruption is nothing new, but the magnitude of it as seen since you came to power has been highly disturbing . What is new is the ineptitude, the incompetence and the lack of supervision which seem to prevail since you came to power--- the like of which one had not seen under any other Prime Minister of India since we became independent in 1947.
You try to blame your difficulties and embarrassments on your having to run a coalition. You are not the first Prime Minister having to run the country at the head of a coalition. V.P.Singh, Chandrasekhar, Deve Gowda, Inder Gujral and Atal Behari Vajpayee headed coalitions too. Despite this, they gave us a government which worked as a team and which did not pull in different directions. I can't recall any instance under the previous coalitions where a Minister repeatedly circumvented the instructions of the Prime Minister, without fearing the consequences of his action.
All the previous Prime Ministers, who headed coalition Cabinets, made it clear to their political associates who the boss was and who would take important decisions. They never tolerated anyone who sought to circumvent their instructions. They never let their political allies dictate terms to them.
This is the first time we are seeing a Prime Minister, who tries to earn not the confidence of the people by projecting himself as a strong leader who will not tolerate any nonsense from his coalition partners, but the pity of the people by projecting himself as a helpless leader, who has nothing but to do what his coalition partners ask him to do.
We watched in utter amazement for one hour on February 16 not the rallying cry of a leader, who has realised the magnitude of the rot and who is determined to set it right whatever be the consequences to his position as the Prime Minister, but an exercise in self-pity of a leader who is at the mercy of his coalition partners and does not have the courage to call them to order.
This was the first time we had an opportunity of listening to you on the State of the country in the light of these scams. We were looking forward not to excuses and pretexts to explain away the sins of commission and omission of your government, but to a bold re-assertion of your leadership as the Prime Minister of this great country, who has the courage to face the people of this country in their eyes and reassure them: Thus far and no further.
I have no doubt in my mind that many right-thinking people of India, like me, must have felt ashamed and enraged as they saw the Prime Minister of this country giving out one excuse after another for not being able to govern effectively and for not being able to prevent blatantly wrong decisions and corruption.
You let us down badly, Mr.Prime Minister. You let us down badly.

B.Raman
 Update
History has a uncanny method of doing justice and now justice is done and sardar ManMOhan Singh is defeated and consigned to the dustbin of history. I am afraid history will judge this man harshly as he failed to lead the nation and ended up being the running dog of the Nehru-Gandhi family.

He allowed corruption to thrive and did nothing. Remember Nero fiddled while Rome was afire?  Man Mohan Singh will have a lot to answer at the bar of Indian history

Is the Black Man a More Potent Lover * 68

In a recent discussion at the US Club bar a retired brigadiar opined that the black man was more virile than most other men. That made me think nd I realized that the  human race has a number of species. Almost all of them evolved as per Darwins theory from the ape over a period of many thousands of years. Most of this development of the races because of the evolution from different species of apes also evolved differently.Thus we have the Chinese and Japanese races which are different from the white race and blacks.
The Black race generally is associated with Africa and because of the harsh climate and lack of development, led to this race having to struggle more to survive.This again is Darwins theory of the survival of the fittest. The black or the negroid race thus devolped greater physical characteristics than other races and in popular ideas a feeling grew that they are also more potent in the sexual field.
A review of hard core porn will show that the greatest demand is for a coupling of a black man with white or other woman. This fantasy is played to the ultimate hilt, though there is no scientific evidence to back this claim. What panders to this fantasy is the physical characteristics in terms of height and build of the black man which tower over other races. These physical attributes do not add to greater potency, but then in popular imagination a man or a woman would like to believe this is true.
This myth commenced from the plantations in the deep south of the USA, where the African was made to work day and night on the farm. The result of this hard labor , was a greater development of the muscular aspect of the body and the house ladies sitting in smug comfort of their mansions were attracted to these muscular slaves. Obviously in contrast to the sedate existence of the white master, the Black scored in physical built.
Another aspect that feeds this fantasy is the human minds desire to try the bizzare in life.This is also one of the reasons that the myth of the black man as a more potent lover has gained credance over more rational thought. But whatever the real fact, this myth of the black man being a more potent lover will not easily go away.
The Brigadier may be right or wrong , it really does not matter as popular perceptions die hard.