God of Hindu women

Today I chanced upon this wonderful movie Pinjar on TV. I have written about it on my another blog


But what stuck me today was a scene where after many years Paro gets a chance to go to her native village and offers her prayers in a roadside shrine of Hindu gods.

There was a similar scene in movie Roja where the heroine who is in Kashmir along with her husband at the height of militancy offers prayers in a temple by saying , north Indian god please tell your brother in south how much I love my husband.

then there was this story by a Sindhi Hindu doctor who had stayed in Pakistan for a few years. Once he is asked to treat a rich muslim landlord who had sexual disease , there he meets a beautiful whore. She takes him inside her room and shows him her 'krishna kanhayyia' who she used to worship even then. She was a Hindu girl who was kidnapped and raped by Muslims during partition and later sold into prostitution. She says to this gentleman that you are witness to my love to god , now I can die peacefully.
Such a touching story.


It is indeed very sad that Hindu society has shabbily treated its women over centuries. From Ahalya to Sita , and in modern times women who were left behind during partition were not accepted back. When even her father turns her away in movie , what recourse Paro is left than to ask God that not make her a girl in next birth.

this is the reason we have sex ratios of 800-700 in Punajb Haryana now. In fact a few days back when I went for an X ray of my teeth to a famous lab in city, the operator was fixing a deal for an ultrasound test in the evening with someone on phone.

Pakistani movies on terrorism

I have watched only two of them - silent water of Sabhia sumar
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0357283/

here is my comment on same

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0357283/usercomments-13


and the other one is more famous khuda ke liye
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1068956/usercomments-26


I would not consider "silent water" as Pakistani movie as most actors are Indian. director herself is pretty offbeat and is married to a Hindu Indian !!!

But one point about that movie is that it shows how did Taliban and ISI recruited their foot soldiers and how American effort to curb communism ended creating another and mroe dangerous monster named "Islamic terrorism"

actually Americans should never have supported dictators against communists. Communism as a philosophy is so deeply flawed that it would crumble under its own weight as it did in Russia, china and Vietnam and will do so in N Korea and Vietnam in future But Islamic monster is bigger and difficult to control as west is experiencing now.

Bangalore Blast : Private Equity in terror

One of my friend put very interesting theory forward. he said Pakistan has enough problems at hand to do such operations but due to globalization a substantial section of Indian Muslims also identify with right or wrong global Muslim causes and of course they have some local ones also.

so some indigenous entrepreneur terrorist group wanted funding from big daddies say Al Qaeda .So they do this low intensity operation exhibit their reach and capabilities and then ask them for funding with this business plan in hand.

sounds plausible.

An MBA has so many career choice now a days.

Comapring Taslima & Maqbool FIda Hussain !!

When talking about nude painting of Hindu goddess by Maqbool one often hears argument that there are temple carvings depicting same.
This argument about eroticism in Indian art is overblown. A majority of modern middle/upper middle class Hindus have grown up without seeing all this supposed eroticism in Hindu temples. They see images of the divine in different forms- Krishna, Shiva, Vishnu, Ganesha etc, and none of them explicitly sexual. So the equation of Hindu temple art with eroticism means nothing. Secondly, there's the whole question of the spirit- not the content- in which the paintings are made. Many Indians feel that Hussain is being irreverant and insulting, rather than respectful or simply artistic. The original creators of those erotic images were cetainly not being provocative or insulting, nor hankering after attention. Erotic images in Hindu temples constitute a small minority of the total number of images, not more than 10%, perhaps as little as 5%. Most of the depictions are non-sexual, or of floral and geometric designs. Ancient Hindu temples are not the sculptural equivalent of "Penthouse" and "Hustler" magazines

There is a huge differenc between taslima & hussain. taslima never hurt the sentiments of muslims. she just pointed out the attrocities commited against the muslim women in the name of islam.

as far as hussain is concerned, this pervert painted something which not only hurts our sentiments but insults our religion too. we do not have any problems of him painting saraswati in the nude. hinduism is far open when it comes to nudity.

problem is with his two other paintings. in one he has shown hanuman having sex with sita & saraswati having sex with ganesha. now this has never happened as far hindu scriptures are concerned. if he would have just painted a monkey & elephant having sex with a lady this would have been fine. but he wanted to make his pervert intentions very clear by putting names under each charactor. this is purely offensive and also accepted by the court.

now he has fled india and hiding in an islamic country. this makes him a fugitive, at par with people like dawood ibrahim. if he thinks that he is innocent, then he should come back to india and face the court. he should explain the motives behind his gruesome paintings.

the "secular" congress govt at the centre can easily give him full security. it is rubbish to say that he is on the run because of the threats from VHP. is VHP bigger than the govt of india?.

fact is, hussain knows that he has commited a crime which will be proved in the court. this is only reason he is hiding in dubai.

lastly, he is facing charges NOT because his painting of saraswati but the two paintings of ganesha having sex with saraswati & hanuman having sex with sita.

all those so called "intellectuals" should allow the release of muhammad cartoons and da vinci code in india if they are really concerned about ar


"Look ate the temple sculpture......"

Temples were built by the believers with devotion and they are for worship and Hussain paintings and others by the secular scoundrals are done with derision and contempt. I do not equate sandolwood paste and shit because they are both yellow in colour

Art critic Gayatri Sinha- "The tradition of painting goddesses in the nude has been part of Indian culture for thousands of years. Many more 'explicit' paintings of Hindu goddesses exist, and they are regarded as holy".

For thousands of years women in India used to roam freely in their birthday suits and nobody minded their lack of dress sense, particularly the men who themselves had no need for even fig leaves. But, today if any woman dares to wear revealing dresses, she runs the risk of getting raped even in crowded trains. Hussain, by all appearances, looks like a cave man of yore, and he should have remained in his cave instead of trying to become a modern artist. The argument by the so called art critic is puerile and is only fit for a school debate

Hindi Movies on Terrorists

Recently there has been a spate of movies on Muslim terrorists in Bollywood and most of them try to be politically correct while at the same time trying to depict ground realities.
Movies which come instantly to my mind are black Friday, sarfarosh, Black or White, Fanna, Aamir, Khuda ke liye

In 90's when Films were yet to get industry status Indian movies were msotly financed by underworld money and one could see its effect in storyline of films. Glorifying urchins, road side thugs, smugglers etc. Not a single movie was made in this period which was unambiguous in its message

Black Friday : This was a good attempt to reconstruct the events as they were without much change which is pretty rare in India ( remember Border).
Instead of sermonizing movie simply shows what happened Muslims were angry after babri mosque demolition.Police acted partial during riots and underworld was Muslim dominated and this came handy. One very sinister undercurrent of this movie and which is apparent worldwide that as a community Muslims are more susceptible to be brainwashed by community in danger rhetoric as has been demonstrated by history innumerable times.

Sarafrosh was a fresh air and it was mostly a crime thriller with Indian touch. It had two main Muslim characters in Nasseruddin Shah a Pakistani artist who abuses Indian hospitality and Deputy of Amir khan who feels he is discriminated by system because he is Muslim.

Fanna was an outlandish communist propaganda justifying terrorism in Kashmir and actually shows "dhimmittva" attitude common in bollywood

Aamir was different but once again it does not expose the Hippocracy of terrorist mastermind and actually gives a credence to vicitm mindset in muslims without paing attention to fact that more hindus are living in more pitiable conditons than muslims lviing in mumbai ghettos

Balck & WHite was once again a movie with appeasing tone. By characters of Anil kapoor it tries to show that always Hindus have to be accommodative and go extra mile in palacating muslims.


Pretty similar to kingdom of heaven menatlity of hollywood.

I seriously wonder when will our movies start to show real things in real way !!

Mumbai Musings

This is my fourth visit to Mumbai but first one when I am meeting a large no of people outside usual sphere of convenience.
I met some interesting people for periods of time extending from few minutes to few days and would try to mention some intresting cretures.

At the top of list are two taxi wallas

First one a gujarati, I guess he was a muslim but he was aghast at new brees of up bihari taxiwallas, rich people , police , family members everything in world. I pray to god don't make me such a bitter man in my old age.

Second was a r\thakur near benaras and was aghast at chamars for putting banners on road to celebrate ambedkar jayanti. i joined his chorus to understand why he thinks so but there was nothing in his brain besides caste prejudice. My question as to why driving taxi if you are a thakur syunned him. Caste runs in blood of Indians.



Third was a boy , a student of first year BMS in the hostel room which I was going to occupy. he was speaking gujarati so i asked him whether he was gujju. He replied no , roman catholic. I said no mater what religion is you can't lose your regionL IDENTITY. THERE ARE WIDE DIFFERENCES IN A MALLU christian and north indian one. Then he says I am portugese not converted. Actually I could say that your forefathers were bastards actually but did not say anything and wondered what will happen to this country when people love to trace their lineage from some foreign invador but not accept their local roots.