When did I realize that a Xerox British Colonial Empire is

impregnated to rule not India but the world

'As a painter and artist I was just busy to study Indian art from
ancient and middle ages and discovered on the way the story of
Portuguese and British colonial decimation of the persona, the
culture, the religions, the identity of India and of Indians. My
concerns were the so called Renaissance art and 'Humanism' of
Colonial Europe and I found it was one of the most anti-humanity
periods of Europe. At the base of this was a new Europe of greed,
avarice, Racism, religious bigotry, Royalty, nobility and a Church
who saw nothing immoral in enslaving and colonizing humanity
out side the pale of Western Europe and Church. For me was
perplexing to find beautiful paintings soft sensual shiny rose tinted
white flesh of the nude women in the paintings like Titian's Sacred
and Profane or sweet Mona Lisa smiling in her own reverie by
Lionardo da Vinci, or the perfect realistic portrayal of handsome
muscular men by Michelangelo dichotomous and sham. The
images of slaves with wooden shafts locked around their necks,
beautiful white women with flowers in bonnet and flounced skirts
sitting in carriages pulled by barefoot loin cloth clad Indians or
flesh-bereft starving dying children, men and women. I realised the
presence of the white Colonist and slave trader behind both type of
images--beautiful Eden of Europe and Hell of all other continents.
One was the cause of the other!! It was not Humanism it was a
simple case of hunting humans like animals, and ruthlessly
gunning down to have access to the gold and silver mines. Brought
as booty from the sweat and tears of slaves and colonized to
Europe it would finance the aristocratic lives of kings nobility and
the Church. Oh not to forget, the gentry would commission best of
the artists to paint beautiful pictures of 'Humanism'. What magic
the Colonists and slave traders exercised--they transformed the
blood and tears of the subjugated, enslaved, colonized into such
happy 'Humane' art. But also remember there were 25% poor alone
in Italian states. There were masses and classes as will always be.
From this was born my book 'Mona Lisa does not smile
anymore' (ISBN 978-81-8465-512-4) published in Delhi in
February 2011. But just as entered the month of March 2011, I was
drowned in a media blitz about a book published--Civilization:
West and the Rest. Indian media-print and electronic had gone
dizzy to rewrite the history of Colonialism as dictated by the
blessed laureate Professor at Harvard and in many more glorious
institutions. He has put forward a grand new thesis that it were 'six
killer applications' that put West on the godly pedestal and the Rest
(well the word Rest itself means refuse or without identity) like
inert matter to be fashioned into useful pottery by British
colonialist. I wondered how such a big professor be so innocent of
the slave trading, indentured labour, colonization, engineered
famines, destruction and decimation of many races from Africa,
Asia, Americas and Oceania. But I was wrong it was not
innocence. .As I read more of his ideas I realized he is advocating
the 'return of the Prodigal' the Colonial master to take over the
world in twenty first century with a slight change in the script. The
USA should become the Colonial grandfather of the erstwhile
British Colonists. They say USA is home to democracy and here is
big Harvard tag professor just suggesting the creation of two
worlds that I talked above—a so called Renaissance Eden West
and slave collar for the Rest.
I also realized it is not important what you say but what position
you have and the glorious media relations or connections you can
muster to spread what ever you wish.
How little has changed in the world, the desire to paint well
nourished pink opulent images of Renaissance 'Humanism' and the
black Indian coolie pulling the 'noble' lady in bonnet still persists at
least in Niall Ferguson's thoughts.
But I wonder what happened to Indian media?? They reviewed and
interviewed him and paraded his intelligence, positions in
universities, his cleverness but not a word on his humanity
denying, equality stifling, racial segregating justification of British
Colonialism.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi who is a global icon for many
things from non-violence to his fight against British Colonists
must be turning in his Samadhi, finding many in Indian media
feting a person who wants the return of the Raj!!! Another
example of media spending a lot of ink on 'sensational as news' is
about a book on Mahatma by Joseph Lelyveld about his sexuality.
For India and the world more important are the ideals Gandhi
stood for than his sexuality.

“The theory that British colonization brought economic

development to India is farcical in the least. It builds on the
incidental trickle effect on India of the efforts of British to have a
better stranglehold on latter—economy and its people. The very
moral question of racial brinkmanship and subjugation and
colonial over-lording are the fundamental issues that still flow into
present day world in its micro and macro level socio-cultural and
economic thought process. At the bottom of Western colonial mind
was well nurtured feeling of superiority rooted in the unitary
Greco-Roman culture. To understand Indian culture with Grecian
glasses will never reveal the exquisite humanity that underlies
Indian art, culture and religions. The context of Indian art over
many millennia is the human ascending to spiritual and spiritual
ascending to human; there is no descent either of human or of the
spiritual. To be human is to be spiritual in true sense and the gods
are reflection of humanity. Because of this philosophy you find
such wonderful depiction of human life on temple walls and
humans occupy about equal space on temples as do the gods. The
great human story comes alive more powerfully as you look at
mother and child theme often depicted in temples, as also the
Ajanta mural where Buddha asks alms from his wife Yasodhara
and she offers her son Rahul to him. The art arrives at highest level
of expression here. No work of so called Renaissance art touches
the pinnacle of spirituality and humanity as this work does. To
remind, the Ajanta murals were done around 4-5 century AD.”
Excerpts from ‘Mona Lisa does not smile anymore’
But still there will be likes of Fergusons desiring military might be
used by USA akin to colonist British Empire to spank, punish and
civilize lesser nations and among them figure all nations including
India.