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The Rape of Goa - A photo documentary
by
Rajan P. Parrikar
Venue: Menezes Braganza Art Gallery, Panjim, May 21-24, 2008
http://www.parrikar.org/misc/doc-notice.pdf
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> If anyone even cursorily looks at my message, I have accepted that there
> are such carvings in some Hindu temples. I do not know why I have to repeat
> myself so many times in my contention that these are not Hindu deities and
> that such carvings are exception and not not a rule. It is really getting
> very tiring.
>
> Sachin Phadte
>
Dear Sachin,
I share your anguish. All too often, one tries to make a point, one
sharpens it so that one cannot be misunderstood, but one lets it out of
one's mouth/pen/film etc. and it is out in the open where the various clowns
of the world misunderstand our well-meaning words. Which is why I find the
post-modernist position of acknowledging that there are many possible
meanings to every text, and this meaning depends on our reading, extremely
useful.
But this is not yet my Buddhic response...though i should be honoured should
you think it so.
In trying to deal with my tiredness of trying to make people understand
what I was saying, I realised that the tiredness was entirely the result of
my own exertion to change the world. Like Angulimala, it was me that was
running, not the Buddha, or the world. If only then, we say our piece and
retire, and may be not make the victory over the world our objective we
should stop feeling so tired.
At some level the post-modern and the Buddhic converge, since both are
concerned with the self- the post-modern argues that every meaning holds
true for oneself, and the Buddha argues that we should attend to ourselves,
rather than the world.
with best wishes,
J
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