COMING NEXT YEAR AN ART FESTIVAL IN LAHORE
SEEKING GUIDANCE OF WESTERN AND INDIAN SCHOLARS

All we have left are boot polishers and morons in Pakistan

The lady Leela Gandhi seems to be an exceptional person. A Professor at Brown University in USA, she has climbed the rungs of American intellectual corridors. Good luck to her. We wish her well in life. The blood of Mahatama Gandhi is in her veins, and she believes in the dogmas that:

“Reframing the way we think about some of the most consequential political events of the era, Leela Gandhi presents moral imperfectionism as the lost tradition of global democratic thought.”

I am a little confused about MORAL IMPERFECTIONISM, and would not know what that would mean. For me the source of my moral education is the HOLY QURAN and there is no confusion there. I am not confused about the TWO NATION THEORY and know what Allama Iqbal told us and what Quaid Azam did for us. I am not confused about our Islamic Aesthetics too. The artist M.A. Rahman Chughtai represented the ultimate aesthetic developments of the 20th century and Western critics have dubbed him in 1976 as the greatest Muslim painter of the 20th century. In all ways he was the FATHER OF PAKISTANI ART and his role in development of aesthetics in Pakistan can not be denied by anyone.

The interesting part is that the Festival is scheduled at Alhamra Lahore. Many people may forget that Alhamra is a place of which the artist M.A., Rahman Chughtai is the FOUNDING FATHER. The idea behind the Art Council was his, the name Alhamra given by him and it was inaugurated with a show of Chughtai Art by Governor General Khawaja Nazimuddin in 1949. But no one will take the name of Chughtai there. Pakistani pseudo critics and scholars shudder at his name for he represents PAKISTAN and PAKISTANI ART. The ideological context is too great, it makes the enemy quiver with pain.

I love Art Festivals. It is good that Art Festivals should happen but festivals should not come with predetermined agendas to derail us from our Ideology. Patronize all kinds of Art in Pakistan. Everything. When you hold ART GIMMICKRY better than our own traditions and develoments in Art, then it is a an agency of ideological change. This change is only imagined in the media. The Ideology of Pakistan cannot be derailed in any way.

I am in no mood to get personal. We should respect everyone, and I do. But an incident is present in the history of our Quaid e Azam and Mahatama Gandhi, which can be remembered and it is there in books as well as on the internet. The incident is:

One day M.K. Gandhi was busy in his Prarthana in his Shivgram Ashram when a snake entered the Ashram. M.K. Gandhi kept himself busy with his Prarthana. The snake took a round of the hut and quietly went away. The Hindu newspapers unduly publicized the event attributing it to Mr. Gandhi’s miracle. A correspondent came to Quaid and asked his comments over the incident. He very seriously heard the whole story and remarked “yes professional etiquette.”

Welcome Leela Gandhi to Lahore! We await with love and respects. Hear point of views of all, and not merely sycophants who await to polish your shoes.

PARTITION STORIES AND THE NEW DECEIT PROGRAMME
BUT HERE IS A HAPPY STORY YOU WOULD NOT HAVE HEARD BEFORE

NO ONE CAN COMPLETELY WASH THE REALITY OF THE MASSACRES

We know the realty of partition well. We know the factual background of the Two Nation theory and how certain lobbies maneuvered the massacre of millions of innocent lives, all the more so in West Pakistan, and particularly in the Punjab. The Sikhs were made to go on rampage prodded by others, with promises of a Khalsa land of their own. My own mother was in Amritsar with my sister and how she escaped from there is an adventure story in itself. Brought to Lahore on a jeep of her brother in law from Hall bazaar to Shahdara with five armed gunmen to protect them. But others were not lucky. She saw all this on the way here. My father also saw the train loads of beheaded women, cut into pieces, after being raped by villagers. With writings in the blood of the martyrs mocking their freedom struggle. Littered with blood of the martyrs, Pakistan was made for the freedom and for the promise of the first Islamic State in a thousand years. Now that is being mitigated with creation of partition stories being attributed to mouth of people, who say different, and the recordings are different, after careful editing of things. A conspiracy is already in the making.

Here is a story you would not have heard. I came across an official document signed by various officials and coming from the coffers of the Intelligence Bureau. A list of ABDUCTED HINDU AND SIKH WOMEN AND CHILDREN were made by the Pakistani authorities, and each case was investigated properly. The total missing persons were 7956 from West Pakistan. Out of these 5609 were from Punjab and 2347 from other provinces. Each name is written. Most of the women and children were recovered and handed over to India by 1952. Yes, no rapes, and no one killed them. They were found, and sent to their families in India with respect and dignity. The funny part is that many did not want to leave Pakistan. The complete list is in our archives. Was there such a list from India, I do not know!

For India truth is something they do not believe, and want to falsify things. Their reporters look mockingly simpletons, trying to befool the world with trumpeted falsehoods. Truth wins in the end. And that they will find out eventually. The modern Privthviraj has forgotten the fate of the original one. Remember that before you go to sleep!

A WELL COMMENTED SHOW OF LAHORI GIRL AT OXFORD
RAZIA SIRAJUDDIN STEALS THE LIMELIGHT OF CRITICISM

English newspapers, BBC all wrote about same in praise

Sir William Rothenstein Principal of the Royal School of Arts was very fond of Razia Sirajuddin and viewed her future as an artist well. Razia Sirajuddin went to the Royal School of Arts and cleared same in flying colours. She made few paintings, first in Oils and then in Water colours. She was not interested in Western concepts and wanted her art to remain Eastern in its nature. Cubism and Sur-realism did not fascinate her. She never wanted to be another Picasso. In many ways her fascination was with M.A. Rahman Chughtai and she wrote the Introduction to his famous book CHUGHTAI’S PAINTINGS.

Razia Sirajuddin was at Oxford. The organizers requested her for a show and the same was held at Oxford. A lot of English critics covered her show. BBC carried reports about it. One of her paintings namely BLACK BURQA was heavily commented and appreciated by Western critics. The artist Chughtai spoke eloquently about her and her art. Unfortunately at the present moment we hardly know of her or have any reports to follow her. That is the tragedy of life!

There were a number of women artists in Pakistan and a number of names are with us. All stand forgotten with time. This society dos not nurture those who cannot do something about themselves. When the artist dies, so does his art. Another artist Razia Ferozuddin met the same fate. I saw many sketches done by Razia Ferozuddin and most of hem were nude studies. People threw them in the dustbin at risk of embarrassment. But luck saves Art, that is lfe too!

THE MOST UNIQUE PICTURE GALLERY OF THE WORLD
LAHORE FORT’S EXCEPTIONAL HERITAGE
STORY OF NEGLECT AND DESTRUCTION

Shamelessness of our caretakers and apathy of leaders

William Finch is supposed to have walked in the Lahore Fort around 1615, and was wonder struck at the most magnificent gallery of pictures in the world. The whole open space and verandahs, and each verandah had a number of hand made paintings on the wall. There were pictures of the Emperor and his ancestors and family, as well as his courtiers. But there was also pictures of other kind. To our view the gallery exhibited most of the pictures of DASTAN AMIR HAMZAH, commisioned by Emperor Humayoun and Emperor Akbar in large size format, mostly on cloth rather than on paper. But the Mughals were not just content with visuals they could see, they had to have drawn all that they had not seen in life. And that meant all things! Unfortunately for us this record is gone. The list given by William Finch is extensive, but looks exaggerated, as perhaps he never even entered the Lahore Fort. These travelers were often gossip makers from bazari tales.

But outside the walls of the Lahore Fort, the Mughals did another thing. They had a gallery of frescos painted as tile mosaics, which also exhibited all kinds of subjects. But hold on, one thing is missing! There are hardly any women in the same. And that is a strange phenomena. These pictures would be visible to the soldiers standing on the ramparts on the outside walls, including the King and the Generals. No women! The Mughals loved women in all ways, then why? In fact here the inner world was for the King, the outer world was for all see. The plan perhaps was not to excite the warriors in any way with images of women. That is why we have elephants, camels, antelopes, courtiers, domestic scenes, professionals a work, but no women at all.

The one thing which has puzzled researchers for centuries is that the Tile Mosaics of Lahore Fort exist to this day, but no Mughal or even Western writer has ever mentioned them. Slight references are made in the Sikh times by travelers like William Barr (who ridiculed Sikh paintings as well as thought of the tile mosaics as “Passing through gateway decorated with paintings of figures,wild animals, etc, fashioned in the most grotesque style” ) and Dr Honigberger (only notices them), but no time before that. It is agreed that the mosaics were started in the last period of Emperor Jahangeer and were finished in the initial period of Emperor Shah Jahan. Why are the Mughals silent about their own creation? To this day no satisfactory answer is there.

But even today people do not listen to their aesthetics calling. No one observes them to this day, and that is why the neglect is phenomenal. Decay surrounds the Tile Mosaics to this day and many have disappeared with time, except for the kind drawing recordings of Vogel. It is a must requirement that a tour be made of visitors and they be allowed to climb the ramparts to see this WONDER OF THE WORLD at closest possible sight. Let us call it is a Gallery Tour of Mughal Paintings. Anybody listening!

GOLA SERAI

A strange fact is mentioned by E. D. Maclagan in his writings, when he says that Angels appearing in Lahore Fort Tile Mosaics are also made on the gateway of the GOLA SERAI in Lahore. I find this mention nowhere else. What was this Gola Serai? We find similar angels in the hammam of Wazeer Khan and immediately come to the conclusion hat we are here talking of the Serai of Nawab Wazeer Khan. E.D. Maclagan points out that the Serai has been dismantled now, that is around 1910. But we do have photographs of the Serai dated 1904 and instead of myself, I find that mentioned by no one else. That in a separate blog.

OUTSIDE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN U.N.O NEW YORK
THE CAFE HOUSES THREE WORKS OF M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI

Only four painters represented at United Nations at that time

After the formation of U.N.O, art works were requested as donations from member countries. Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan decided to present three paintings of M.A. Rahman Chughtai to the U.N.O in New York. Pitras Bokhari was Pakistan’s representative to the UNO and a personal friend of the artist. Not only the works were presented, they were placed at a very important venue. After people met at General Assembly, there was a cafe outside the hall to accommodate the delegates to the General Assembly. The works were hung there and admired by the most important diplomats of the world. In fact New Year parties were held in this Cafe and Secretary Gebneral Kofi Annan used to be seen dancing in front of these art works on international television.

When the news of the death of M.A. Rahman Chughtai reached the U.N.O, the Secretary General Dr Kurt Waldheim sent his personal as well as official condolence to the Chughtai family on the sad loss of an international figure. I visited New York to thank him personally for the same in 1976. We were in touch for a long time. Dr Walheim even recommended our case to the Government of Punjab related to the building of Chughtai Museum. A great man indeed!

It is a shame that so many people as well as Heads of State visit the U.N.O headquarters, but pay no heed of the art representation at the U.N.O from Pakistan. Either they do not know, or they are not even interested in same. Would it hurt the pride of Prime Minister Nawaz Shareef to be seen with them in New York? Only Allah knows better.

YOU HAVE SEEN MAPS SHOWING BREAKUP OF PAKISTAN
NOW OBSERVE A NEW CHINESE MAP OF FUTURE PAKISTAN

A BIGGER PAKISTAN AND A BROKEN INDIA

The perception of countries is important. It does not show reality. It shows wishes of people doing same. The Western lobby have delighted in presenting us maps of a broken Pakistan into smaller parts and the gaining of Afghanistan and India with our territory. Now the Chinese intelligence have shown us a different perspective. A broken India and an enlarged territory of Pakistan.

It may not show anything else but it does show one thing clearly. Who are our friends and who are our enemies? Worth noting again and again. Thank you CHINA for thinking kindly of us!

There are many mentally sick persons on the internet raving against Pakistan all the time. We lost East Pakistan by conspiracy and nothing else. Outside forces were combined with our own political traitors, and not only in East Pakistan, but in West Pakistan too. History is not counted in days. East Pakistan will again emerge a strong Islamic block. Wait and see! The passion of Islamization in the hearts of Bengal, those sitting in big cities, draining Western resources are wasting their time and future.

Some nincompoop probably by name of Jamaluddin constantly sends me emails on DIVIDE PAKISTAN subject. His motivations are very clear. He himself circulates a video of himself dancing in a strip tease club. What wonderful gains for the man? Good luck to you Jamal Sahib! A lot of similar ladies will join you in your ultimate place! Lucifer awaits you with great anxiety.