Monday, October 13, 2003
Saturday, October 11, 2003
The Official Mahatma Gandhi eArchive
The Mahatma and the King On his visit to England for the Round Table Conference. The Mahatma interacts with the Pearly King and his children. And shows his ability to enjoy life to its fullest even when he was realising the insincerity of the British Rulers and their designs of dividing the Indian populace.
BBC World Service | Learning English | News English - Words in the News
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Tuesday, October 07, 2003
artnet.com Magazine Features - Baghdad Journal
"When I asked you how much sadness you have, as much as the river flows to the East. The wildflower doesn't stop growing, the wind of the spring, Everything comes back to life." -- Cantonese verse scratched into detention center wall in Iraq
artnet.com Magazine Features - Passage to India
His oils of the Middle East and India are imposing works, often monumental in sweep, filled with incident, and so well painted that you can almost feel the skin-searing sun. So why is a great artist like Edwin Lord Weeks (1849-1903), an American Orientalist (or as he preferred, 'colorist') neglected? Weeks is not totally forgotten. A piece shows up in group exhibitions from time to time, especially abroad. But now there's a loan show of his oils, 'Edwin Lord Weeks: Visions of India,' at Vance Jordan Fine Art. It's the perfect time to reassess this talented but underappreciated artist. This is, after all, the first major exhibition devoted solely to Weeks' oils since his death, almost 100 years ago. " artnet.com Magazine Features - Passage to India: "Passage to India by N. F. Karlins
Sunday, October 05, 2003
In India, Rulings for Women, by Women (washingtonpost.com)
HYDERABAD, India -- Last month, a woman here approached a panel of religious scholars on a vexing matter of Islamic law. What did the prophet Muhammad have to say about beauty aids such as tinted contact lenses, cosmetics, nail polish, leg waxing and creams for lightening facial hair? The scholars consulted their religious texts and a few days later got back to her with an answer: Yes to limited applications of blush and eyeliner. No to everything else. The answer was supplied in the form of a fatwa, a religious edict that is normally issued by a panel of male Islamic judges known as muftis. But this fatwa carried an extra measure of expertise. Its authors were women. "Within limits, makeup is okay," said one of them, Nazima Aziz, from behind the black veil that obscured all but her large and apparently unmade-up eyes. "But when you use a colored contact lens you're trying to change the way you look. You're not allowed to alter or change the form that Allah has given you." Aziz, 22, is a muftia, one of three who make up a newly inaugurated, all-female fatwa panel -- or dar-ul-iftah -- that operates out of a girls' religious school in this one-time princely capital about 750 miles south of New Delhi. School administrators, Indian news reports and some academic experts say the panel is the first of its kind in India and perhaps the Sunni Muslim world. In any case, it is a striking departure from the norm. For centuries, Muslim women have had to rely on men for official religious guidance on gender-sensitive matters from makeup to menstruation. Now they can drop a line -- in writing or by e-mail -- to the muftias of Jamiat-ul-Mominat, as the girls' religious school is known. That India should be the proving ground for female Islamic jurisprudence, albeit on a limited scale, is not surprising. India's large Muslim minority, estimated at 130 million to 150 million, has long had a reputation for moderation. Despite fears that rising Hindu nationalism is fueling the growth of a radical fringe among Muslims, they have generally embraced India's secular democracy, either out of conviction or because their minority status has left them little choice.
Mother India by Katherine Mayo 1927
But one must not overlook the fact that, back of Britain’s day, India was ever either a chaos of small wars and brigandage, chief preying upon chief, and all upon the people; or else she was the flaccid subject of a foreign rule. If, once and again, a native king arose above the rest and spread his sway, the reign of his house was short, and never covered all of India. Again and again conquering forces came sweeping through the mountain passes out of Central Asia. And the ancient Hindu stock, softly absorbing each recurrent blow, quivered – and lay still. Many a reason is advanced to account for these things, as, the devitalizing character of the Hindu religion, with its teachings of the nothingness of things as they seem, of the infinitude of lives – dreams all – to follow this present seeming. This element, beyond doubt, plays its part. But we, as “hard-headed Americans,” may, for a beginning, put such matters aside while we consider points on which we shall admit less room for debate and where we need no interpreter and no glossary. The whole pyramid of India’s woes, material and spiritual – poverty, sickness, ignorance, political minority, melancholy, ineffectiveness, not forgetting the subconscious conviction of inferiority which he forever bares and advertises by his gnawing and imaginative alertness for social affronts – rests upon a rock-bottom physical base. This base is, simply, his manner of getting into the world and his self-life thenceforward. In the great orthodox Hindu majority, the girl looks forward to motherhood nine months after reaching puberty. She is also completely unlettered, her stock of knowledge comprising only the ritual of worship of household idols, the rites of placation of the wrath of deities and evil spirits, and the detailed ceremony of the service of her husband, who is ritualistically her personal god. As to the husband, he may be a child scarcely older than herself or he may be a widower of fifty, when he first requires of her his conjugal rights. In any case, whether from immaturity or from exhaustion he has small vitality to transmit. You decide for yourself what you think.
Saturday, October 04, 2003
Baljit Grewal's India News Cache
AltaVista's Babel Fish Translation of http://baljit.itgo.com
Indien Nachrichten Pakistan Prüft Kern-Fähigen Flugkörper, Indien Mitgeteiltes... Turks.US Gandhi Jayanti Feiern folgern ISM... zu den Zeiten von Oman Flattern aus der Vergangenheit heraus: Indien nimmt sie ist Zeit für einen neuen unabhängigen Lebenszyklus ... an Sohn des indischen Immigranten wahrscheinlicher oberer Stimme-Vote-getter in Louisiana Primär... CNN
Friday, October 03, 2003
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