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Fourteen days of MENTAL and PHYSICAL TORTURE for us!
FOURTEEN DAYS OF MENTAL AND PHYSICAL TORTURE FOR US
THE BACK DROP GOT STARTED IN AMSTERDAM IN YEAR 1932
THREAT TO DEFILE THE SACRED LAND OF CHUGHTAI MUSEUM
PAKISTAN FOREVER!
It was the year 1932, and M.A. Rahman Chughtai was on a European tour. Elza Huiffner took him to the Rembrandt’s house in Amsterdam. The artist quickly realized what a proud nation does for its iconic characters. Yes, Rembrandt laid dead in a stable for days, before his body was discovered by the stench. But the Dutch rose to the challenge and restored the house of Rembrandt. M.A. Rahman Chughtai proudly declared to Elza Huiffner, that one day his works will be housed in a museum in Lahore, for the world to come and see the aesthetics of our nation. Forsaking all offers there, the artist came back to his nation, with the messages of Dr Allama Iqbal ringing in his ears. Yes, a separate homeland.
M.A. Rahman Chughtai had no vehicle of his to move on. Sometimes on foot, at times in a hired tonga (horse driven), he roamed and scouted the city for a sacred land to build his museum. The Government did not listen to his request for such an allotment, although his best friend Justice S A Rahman was the Settlement Commissioner himself. In the heat of summer I would see the artist with his brother seeking the best place for a museum. Colonel Sardar Hamid Hassan stepped forward with a proposal of a land which had been allotted to him in Garden Town. But Chughtai had no money for it. It was decided to pay for the land but in easy installments. An amazing gesture from a retired Colonel for the good of Art in this country. The deal was done and an agreement signed, and the foundations of a house was laid.I remember that day, when we rode a tonga to a land full of trees and crops, and the foundation was dug. My mother cooked a degh herself there, after a lamb was slaughtered and by traditions, the blood of the sacrificed lamb went into the foundations. All rejoiced that day to a grand future.
Lahore Improvement Trust or LDA was made for only one purpose, and that was to harass the citizens of Lahore. Corrupt and moronic officers tried their level best to stall the development of this land. But that is another story. Here it is suffice to say that on 17th January, 1975, about 12 families had occupied the house and about 200 squatters occupied the rest of the land. How we cleared it, is stuff of history? But we did, and a thousand people tried to stop us. I was threatened with my life many times. But we prevailed!
Who invented the latest charade? We can only guess. A preposterous claim made on the property. Col Hamid Hassan forged his allotment. All laws today tell us that a VALID TRANSACTION DONE becomes totally valid after lapse of 50 years, and such a case cannot even be reopened as defined by High Courts as well as Supreme Court. It used to be merely 18 years some time back. Records got burnt by vested interested people. That is common knowledge.
A sweetest American lady wrote to me from United States, that she is praying for our Sacred land from a sacred Catholic church. An American Professor wrote to the American Embassy to look into it. An Englishman from Cardiff University in UK wanted to do practical things to save us. Yes, there is concern but this is a concern of a minority who know the values of civilization. In a barbaric world civilizations come under the axes of corrupt politicians with greed embedded in their rotten brainless heads. Will we prevail? A number of foreigners are hoping that we will prevail. Our special thanks to Ms Rabia Ameen for praying for us! May Allah grant you all special places for aligning yourself with an excellent cause. We are the international center for peace. The State of Pakistan is not the Government of Pakistan. We are proud of our country and we shout Pakistan Forever all the time. Pakistan is not in our soul, Pakistan is our soul!
Azan
WE BESEECH ALLAH FOR YOUR HELP
LET TRUTH TRIUMP IN THIS WORLD!
“DEMOLISH CHUGHTAI MUSEUM WITHIN FOURTEEN DAYS AND HAND OVER LAND TO US”
“DEMOLISH CHUGHTAI MUSEUM WITHIN FOURTEEN DAYS AND HAND OVER LAND TO US”
PLANNED DESTRUCTION OF NATIONAL INSTITUTION
A NOTICE OF LAND GRABBING AT ITS WORST IN LAHORE AND WAITING FOR INSAAF!
A TOTALLY FALSE PREMISE GENERATED THE ARRIVAL OF A NOTICE HERE TO VACATE CHUGHTAI MUSEUM WITHIN FOURTEEN DAYS. OTHERWISE EVEN THE COST OF DEMOLITION WILL BE RECOVERED FROM US.
WILL WE SURVIVE? NO ONE KNOWS. AND WILL ANYONE PRAY FOR US! LET US SEE. WILL ANYBODY DO ANYTHING? ONLY THE FUTURE WILL TELL. WE CAN SAY THIS. M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI WORKED FOR 60 YEARS FOR HIS COUNTRY AND WE HAVE WORKED FOR 42 YEARS FOR OUR COUNTRY. HUNDRED YEARS DOWN THE DRAIN FOR MERE GREED OF PHARAOHS. WE WEEP FOR OUR COUNTRY AND WE WEEP FOR ITS FUTURE. HONESTY IS BEING TESTED AS NOT A GOOD POLICY!
ALLAH’S QANOON OF MAKUFAT AWAITED BY US WITH FULL ZEAL!
FORTY TWO YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI CRIES AGAIN – GOVERNMENTAL PHARAOHS READY TO TOSS THROW HIS BONES IN THE AIR
FORTY TWO YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI CRIES AGAIN
GOVERNMENTAL PHARAOHS READY TO TOSS THROW HIS BONES IN THE AIR
The anguish is unimaginable. The dilemma of a national burial place was resolved by a former Chief Minister of Punjab and the DC Hafeezullah Ishaque helped us with the issue. M.A. Rahman Chughtai and his brother Abdur Raheem Chughtai were buried on the museum site and they have rested in peace for decades now. With the demolition of the museum, the issue of graves will come up. Previously the Government of Punjab has dumped bodies of Peers and Faqeers, and holy men in the pool of dust and rivers. Disregard for anything held sacred by people.
Now the NATIONAL ARTIST OF PAKISTAN who was honored with a Hilal-e-Imtiaz and Pride of Performance by 1959, is to be manhandled decades after his death. DOES OUR RULERS KNOW ABSOLUTELY NO SHAME? To uproot bodies after 42 years, the Curse of Allah will be with those who do this carnage!
BASOHLI SCHOOL CONSIDERED THE FOUNDATION OF NEW HINDU ART – AND YET BASOHLI ITSELF FOUNDED BY MUGHAL ARTISTS ON DEPUTATION
BASOHLI SCHOOL CONSIDERED THE FOUNDATION OF NEW HINDU ART
AND YET BASOHLI ITSELF FOUNDED BY MUGHAL ARTISTS ON DEPUTATION
Generally the British are accused of a DIVIDE an RULE policy, and there certainly can be truth in it. But this division could only be possible for there were two nations here, and however amicably rulers tried, the two nations remained as they were. Unwilling to sacrifice their way of life, one tried to amalgamate, the other did not. The classic analysis of Quaid e Azam remain unshaken to this day.
Last 200 years was spent by the two nations in not writing history, but rewriting history. In fact the Muslims, unlike their ancestors, had stopped bothering about history itself. The Hindu segment wrote their own versions of history and in that respect wrote their own version of the history of Art in this region. There is a dire need not only to rewrite history but to re=evaluate many things taken for guaranteed. The Western world itself is no longer free of bias. Abundant finances have rolled in the coffers of western art critics, for them to lose their independence in analysis.
The father of the new Art is considered to have started from Basohli School itself. Initially called a Pre-Mughal School, a Tibeti School, or even a Nepalese School, the critics are really silent for they really do not even know and do not want to give credit where it is really due. The subjects wear Mughal dresses, are in Mughal environment, but have an Identity all their own. Chughtai Museum has embarked upon a programme of WRITING THE HISTORY OF ART IN THE REGION. It s realized that the works lack inscriptions and when the inscriptions are there, the same are mostly written by Art dealers of Amritsar and Delhi. Till then enjoy Basohli School in Mughals connotations
THE ROMANCE AND POWER OF JULIANNA AT MUGHAL COURT
THE ROMANCE AND POWER OF JULIANNA AT MUGHAL COURT
CHIEF OF HAREM FOR FOUR MUGHAL KINGS AND THEIR LADIES
ATTACHMENT TO LAHORE MISSED BY AL-MOST ALL HISTORIANS
In history we see record of various people and others go missing all the time. The story of JULIANNA is picked from various other sources, but not actually Mughal records. The reason cannot be understood but as she is very much in French Archives, there can be no doubt that she was a woman of great strength at Mughal Court. In an indirect way she was responsible for the attitudes of a lot of Mughal Princesses. In a civilization where actual Slaves became Sultans in this region, it is not surprising that a ten year old slave Portuguese girl won favour with the Mughals.
It is reputed that the army of Emperor Shah Jahan captured the port of Hughlee in Bengal in 1632 AD, and brought back various people from there. One such person was a ten year old girl, Julianna, who by her good luck, found favour with the Mughals and was sent to the Mughal harem. The Mughal ladies liked her very much, because unlike their own skin, this little girl had a very pale complexion. That she was favoured by many is beyond question. Those people who like to call Emperor Aurangzeb bigoted, it is an eye opener for them, that he liked Julianna so much, that he favoured her with Royal presents. In fact after the death of Prince Dara Shikoh, Aurangzeb gave the entire property of Dara Shikoh to Julianna. It is said that she resided in the Red Fort, but references to a Jesus Christ in Chuna and a cross at the Pari Mahal in Lahore of Nawab Wazeer Khan, suggests that even the Pari Mahal in Lahore was gifted to her. Also possibly the Ainah Khana of Prince Dara Shikoh at Lahore.
For a lady who attained the age of 82 years, Julianna saw many reigns within her life time and many Monarchs considered her like a mother. It is surprising that she did not marry a Mughal herself, and reputation is of her marrying an European surgeon n Delhi. Four Mughal rulers were personally indebted to her. And as she was in control of the Mughal harem, so many Royal ladies devoted to her too. Shame on such people who consider the Mughals as a bigoted lot. The audacity to consider Emperor Aurangzeb as bigoted should be stopped by this incident alone.
The palace of Dara Shikoh was burnt in 1739 AD By Nadir Shah, and then again by Suraj Mal in 1761 AD. Lady Julianna seems to have moved to Lahore and Lady Julianna hosted the Dutch Ambassador John Josua Ketelaar on his mission to Lahore. She showed him the Pari Mahal of Wazeer Khan, where Ketelaar discovered a huge representation of Jesus Christ in Albastar (chuna) there surrounded by Angels. It is understood that all properties of Dara Shikoh belonged to her and probably the Aineh Khana of Dara Shikoh in Lahore was hers too. Lost history!
Emperor Bahadur Shah created a new dignity for her and name the same as JULIANNA itself. It was the privileage of placing the golden crown on the head of the Emperor by Lady Julianna herself and after her death, her children would inherit that dignity. A Portuguese slave girl crowning the Emperor himself. AMAZING!
THE NAME AL-MUSSAWAR ONE OF THE 99 ATTRIBUTES OF ALLAH – BOOK WITHIN FOR LIVING THINGS BOOK WITHOUT FOR HUMANS
THE NAME AL-MUSSAWAR ONE OF THE 99 ATTRIBUTES OF ALLAH
BOOK WITHIN FOR LIVING THINGS BOOK WITHOUT FOR HUMANS
The mating season has begun at Chughtai Museum. Various animals and birds are doing things by instinct. A Woodpecker couple was seen making their nest in a tree on Chughtai Museum. Amazed at the precision of same. Unbelievable at times. But that is the might of Allah Al-Mighty, the Mussawar of infinite qualities. For humans Allah has given us the instruction through the Quran, or the book outside us. That is why we have FREE WILL to choose our DESTINY. For other living beings the book is within, or instincts which govern every aspect of lives of animals, birds, insects and what not? The Quran vouches for life through out the universes, so ALIENS are there too. Of what kind, certainly not our imaginative things. But there! We are waiting to discover them eventually. If they are not human beings, then they work by instinct too. Allah O Akbar indeed!