Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Whatever the history, it is unfortunate. Nothing is achieved by inserting wedges between citizens of a country. for religious and ultimately political ends. Cheers Jayanand On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:17 PM, scleroplex <scleroplex at gmail.com> wrote: > very lovely photos sir, as always > > re "it became a > huge celebration in Mumbai, a religious show of strength, and this attitude > has unfortunately seeped into a large part of the country." > > in 1948 the muslim population agitated for and won a massive Partition > along religious lines. > the land of bharat was partitioned into a Post-Partition Hindu India and a > Post-Partition Muslim Pakistan. > > naturally people who stayed in Post-Partition Hindu India assumed, phew, > they would no longer be attacked, > kidnapped, beheaded, burnt alive or have acid thrown on their faces. > > sadly, none of that ever stopped as the muslims decided one Pakistan was > not enough when the rest of Post-Partition Hindu India was still there for > the taking. > > thus they began holding huge muslim prayers in the middle of mumbai, inside > Post-Partition Hindu India, blocking the streets and traffic every friday, > most famously in an area called Mahim Creek. > > they also routinely burnt Hindu pilgrims alive for years and years when > they travelled to and from Hindu shrines inside Post-Partition Hindu India. > > the hindus of and in Post-Partition Hindu India finally began retaliating, > most prominently after Hindu pilgrims were burnt alive inside a passenger > train in 2002. > > there were further attacks on Hindu temples inside Post-Partition Hindu > India as well as bombings of commuter trains in mumbai and even a three-day > armed assault in 2008 by citizens of and from Post-Partition Muslim > Pakistan. > > in response, Hindus in Post-Partition Hindu India began to celebrate Hindu > festivals prominently inside Post-Partition Hindu India. > it is certainly a more classy response that Charlie Hebdo's cartoons. > > also see - http://www.flickr.com/photos/scleroplex/5470355008/ > and > http://www.flickr.com/photos/scleroplex/5488543585/ > > as i wrote, if Hindus cannot travel to sites of Hindu pilgrimage inside > Post-Partition Hindu India with the expectation that they would not be > burnt alive, where can they? > > all major Hindu temples have been under armed protection for years. > > and the few Hindus left inside Post-Partition Muslim Pakistan have stepped > up their efforts to flee. > > because people have pussy-footed around these unassailable facts for years, > the fascists have been emboldened to now demand > that saying anything deemed offensive to muslims anywhere be made illegal > at the United Nations level. > > > http://jonathanturley.org/2012/09/24/egyptian-president-demands-criminalization-of-anti-islamic-speech-at-united-nations/ > > "One of Mursi?s chief aides, Emad Abdel Ghaffour, announced this weekend, > ?we call for legislation or a resolution to criminalize contempt of Islam > as a religion and its Prophet. The voice of reason in the West will prevail > if there is mutual respect, dialogue and efficient lobbying for this > critical resolution.? > > The ?voice of reason? appears to be saying that we need to sacrifice free > speech on the altar of religion. Moreover, ?mutual respect? now means that > critics must remain silent in their views of Muhammad and Islam." > > naturally most people are too scared to call a spade a spade. > > this week i just finished reading salman rushdie's memoirs. > well worth one's time. > > and a year ago Oxford published another useful book - > > http://www.amazon.com/Silenced-Apostasy-Blasphemy-Choking-Worldwide/dp/0199812284 > > > just as it is wrong to rape a woman regardless of the clothes she was > wearing at the time, a point that has since lead to demonstrations called > "Slut Walks" which i wholeheartedly support, it is equally wrong to kill or > threaten someone with death based on a comment or cartoon or book. > > the boston globe's wasserman has a delightful cartoon on this point - > http://www.flickr.com/photos/scleroplex/8001625070/in/photostream > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SlutWalk > > cheers! > bharani > > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:31:41 +0530 > From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> > Subject: [Leica] Ganesha Chaturthi Part 1 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>, PSM > <psm1857 at googlegroups.com> > Message-ID: > < > CAH1UNJ0DCmDmu-k0cQD6woK_wT1-ZUQ_mWVzcnJrni+tZ4WyTA at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I had taken part in a photowalk on 19th September, together with my PSM > club mates. That was the day of a major festival in India, Ganesha > Chaturthi, in honour of the elephant god, Ganesha. He is the god of wisdom, > prosperity and luck - and so is very widely worshiped. This festival was a > relatively benign affair till a couple of decades ago when it was noticed > that it would always fall close to Ramadan (Eid ul Fitr), and it became a > huge celebration in Mumbai, a religious show of strength, and this attitude > has unfortunately seeped into a large part of the country. Anyway, in > Chennai it still is a relatively benign affair. Traditionally we do pooja > to an idol of Ganesha made of mud, which is then immersed in a water body > and dissipates back into nature. Anyway some shots in and around the the > Kapaleeshwarar Temple, supposedly in operation since the 7th century, > dedicated to Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction - Ganesha is his son in > Hindu mythology. All taken with the Fuji X-Pro 1 - a few with the 60mm f2.4 > and the majority with the 35mm f1.4 lenses. I am glad to report that > autofocus speed has increased dramatically after the recent firmware > update. > > Eye contact with a god: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/DSCF0645.jpg.html > > Morning News: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/DSCF0598.jpg.html > > Discomfort: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/DSCF0609.jpg.html > > Umbrellas: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/DSCF0629.jpg.html > > Shade: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/DSCF0632.jpg.html > > Devotee: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/DSCF0646.jpg.html > > Fresh Idols: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/DSCF0659.jpg.html > > Please see LARGE! > > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome. > > Cheers > Jayanand > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >