two notes to shinoj

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ഷിനോജ്, വ്യക്തി, വിശ്വാസം, സാമുദായിക പ്രതിബദ്ധത എന്നീ സാമൂഹീക ബിംബങ്ങൾക്കുള്ളിൽ കലയുടെ അക്കാദമിക ചരിത്രമൂല്യം സ്വംശീകരിച്ചു കലയെയും കലാകാരനേയും സാംസ്കാരിക പ്രതിബിംബങ്ങളാക്കി സാമൂഹ്യ അധികാരശ്രേണിയുടെ സൂചികകൾ തായ്യാറാക്കുക എന്ന ഇരുപതാം നൂറ്റാണ്ടിലെ സാന്പ്രദായീക അക്കാദമിക ആശയമായ ജേർണൽ സംസ്കാരത്തിന് ഇരുപത്തൊന്നാം നൂറ്റാണ്ടിൽ എത്ര തന്നെ പ്രാധാന്യം ഉണ്ട് എന്നു കൂടി നാം കാര്യമായി ചിന്തിക്കേണ്ടിയിരിക്കുന്നു. രക്ഷാധികാരികളിൽ തുടങ്ങി ഗാലറികളിലെത്തി, ബിനാലെകൾ കടന്നു ആര്ട്ട് ഫൈറിലെത്തി മോഡെർണിസത്തിന്റെയും പോസ്റ്റ് മോഡെർണിസത്തിന്റെയും വാൿദ്വാരകൾക്കടിപ്പെട്ടു തകർന്നു നിൽക്കുന്ന മുഖ്യധാരാ കലാ ലോകത്തിന്റെ ജീർണതകൾ കൂടി ഇവിടെ കൂട്ടി വായിക്കേണ്ടിയിരിക്കുന്നു . അതുകൂടാതെ യൂറോപ്പിലെ മാനിഫെസ്റ്റ, നാഗരിക ഭാഷയുടെ അക്കാദമിക യാന്ത്രികതക്കും നിശ്ചലതക്കുമപ്പുറം മറ്റു മാനങ്ങൾക്കായി വേരുകൾ തേടി ഗ്രാമങ്ങളിലേക്ക് ചേക്കേറേണ്ടിവരുന്ന വിഹ്വലതകളും കലാലോകത്തിലെ അക്കാദമിക സംസ്കാരത്തിലുടലെടുത്ത അപചയത്തിന്റെ ഒരു നേർ കാഴ്ചയാണ്. മൂത്ര കക്കൂസിൽ തുടങ്ങി അമേദ്യം ടിന്നിലാക്കിയ ആശയ കലകളുടെ പ്രവക്താക്കളായി മാറിയ ഘടനാവാദികളുടെയും പോസ്റ്റ് മോഡെർണിസ്റ്റുകളുടെയും അക്കാദമിക ചരിത്ര-ചിന്താ വ്യാഖ്യാനങ്ങൾക്കപ്പുറത്തു കലയെ വാക്കുകൾ കണ്ടെത്തത്തെടുത്തോളം കാലം, കലയിലെ കലാകാരന്റെ പങ്കിനെ, ക്രഫ്റ്റിനെ അനുഭവിച്ചറിയാതിടത്തോളം കാലം, കലയിൽ വാക്കിന്റെ പ്രതീകാത്മക പ്രസക്തി ചോദ്യം ചെയ്യേണ്ടപ്പെടേണ്ടിയിരിക്കുന്നു . അതിനാൽ ഷിനോജ് ആഗ്രഹിക്കുന്ന കലയിലെ എഴുത്തുകൾ, ചരിത്രം അല്ലെങ്കിൽ അതിനനുബന്ധപെട്ട ചിന്തകൾ വരെ കൊള്ളാം, എന്നാൽ നിലവിലുള്ള കലയെയും, കലാകാരനേയും ചരിത്രത്തിന്റെയും ചിന്തയുടെയും ചതിക്കുഴിയിൽ വീഴ്‌ത്തി കൊട്ടിലിൽ കെട്ടുന്ന ആനയാക്കി വളർത്തുന്ന പോസ്റ്റ് മോഡെർണിസ്റ് വാക്ചാതുര്യമായി അത് അവസാനിക്കാതിരിക്കട്ടെ എന്ന് ആശംസിക്കുന്നു

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ഷിനോജ്, മുഖ്യധാരാ കലാ ലോകത്തിന്റെ ജീർണതകൾ എന്നുദ്ദേശിച്ചതിതൊക്കെ തന്നെയായിരുന്നു. കാഴ്ചക്കാരനും കലാകാരനും ഒന്ന് തന്നെയാണെന്ന് താങ്കൾ പറഞ്ഞതിനോട് പൂർണമായും യോചിക്കുന്നു . പാശ്ചാത്യ കലയിൽ അറുപതുകളിൽ തന്നെ അംഗീകരിച്ച "റെഡിമേഡ് " കലകൾ കലയിൽ വരുത്തിയ വ്യതിയാനം തന്നെ ഇതായിരുന്നല്ലോ. ആ ആശയത്തെ വിഗ്രഹവൽക്കരിച്ചു കല "സെൻസോറിയൽ മെറ്റീരിയലിറ്റി" (അനുഭവത്തിനുള്ള ആശയത്തിന്റെ ഭൗതീക പ്രകാശനം) അല്ലെന്നും അത് പ്രതീകാത്മക വായനക്കുള്ള അക്ഷരഘടനകൾ മാത്രമാണെന്നുമുള്ള സെമിയോട്ടിക്/പോസ്റ്റ് മോഡെർണിസ്റ് (ഉത്തരാധുനിക) സങ്കൽപ്പങ്ങളുടെ മറപിടിച്ചു, കല ചെയ്യുന്നവരുടെ ആശയങ്ങൾക്ക് പ്രമാധ്യമില്ലെന്നും (death of Author), കലാവായിക്കുന്നവനും അത് വിശകലനം (critical reading ) ചെയ്യുന്നവർക്കുമാണ് അപ്രമാദിത്യം എന്ന തെറ്റിദ്ധാരണ വളർത്തിയെടുത്തു, കലയിലെ കലാകാരനേ പാർശ്വവൽക്കരിച്ചു അക്ഷരങ്ങളുടെ മാറിമായമാക്കിയ അക്കാദമിക സൈദ്ധാന്തിക എഴുത്തു സമൂഹത്തിന്റെ അപകടത്തെ പറ്റിയാണ് ഞാൻ പറഞ്ഞത്. കലയിലെ കൈ കാര്യപ്രമാദ്ധ്യമുള്ളവരെ തരംതാഴ്ത്തി, വാക്ചാതുര്യ പ്രാമാണ്യത്തെ കൊണ്ടാടുന്ന ജാതിവ്യവസ്ഥയുള്ള ഇന്ത്യയിൽ, ഈ ഉത്തരാധുനിക പ്രക്രിയ, ജാതി വ്യവസ്ഥാ രീതിയുടെ കലാരംഗത്തെ പുനരാവിഷ്കാരമാകുന്നത് നാം കാണാതെ പോകരുത് . ഈ അക്കാദമിക സമൂഹം ജനകീയ മാധ്യമങ്ങളിലെ (മാസ്സ് മീഡിയ) അക്ഷരങ്ങളുടെ അപ്രമാദിത്യം കൂടി കൈയ്യാളി, ഇത് കലയാണ്, ഇത് കലയല്ല, ഇത് കലാകാരനാണ് ഇതു കലാകാരനല്ല എന്നു നിർവചിക്കാനുള്ള അധികാരമാക്കി അതിനെ മാറ്റുകയും , അതിലൂടെ അതൊരു കച്ചവടമാക്കുകയും ചെയ്തതിന്റെ പരിണിത ഫലമാണ് ഇന്ത്യയിൽ ഇന്ന് കാണുന്ന കലയിലെ അപചയങ്ങൾക്കു ഒരു വലിയ പരിധിവരെ കാരണം. ഈ പ്രക്രിയയുടെ ഏറ്റവും ദയനീയത, ഇന്ത്യൻ കല പാശ്ചാത്യ സമൂഹത്തിന്റെ ചിന്താസരണികളുടെ സംശോധനമാകണമെന്ന ഇവരുടെ കടുംപിടുത്തമാണ്, അല്ലെങ്കിൽ ഈ പ്രക്രിയ ഇന്ത്യൻ കലയെ പാശ്ചാത്യ ദൃശ്യ സംസ്കാരത്തിന്റെ പതിപ്പ് മാത്രമാക്കി ഒതുക്കി നിർത്തും എന്ന സത്യത്തെ ഒളിച്ചു വെച്ചു എന്നതാണ് 

അതുകൊണ്ടാണ് "നിലവിലുള്ള കലയെയും, കലാകാരനേയും ചരിത്രത്തിന്റെയും ചിന്തയുടെയും ചതിക്കുഴിയിൽ വീഴ്‌ത്തി കൊട്ടിലിൽ കെട്ടുന്ന ആനയാക്കി വളർത്തുന്ന പോസ്റ്റ് മോഡെർണിസ്റ് വാക്ചാതുര്യമായി അത് അവസാനിക്കാതിരിക്കട്ടെ എന്ന് ആശംസിക്കുന്നു" എഴുതിയതു. 
തീർച്ചയായും മലയാളത്തിൽ ജനകീയ ചർച്ചകളോടെ കലയെക്കുറിച്ചു കൂടുതൽ എഴുത്തുകൾ ഉണ്ടാകട്ടെ എന്ന് ഞാനും എല്ലാവരെയും പോലെ പ്രത്യാശിക്കുന്നു. ഈ ചർച്ച തുടങ്ങിയതിനു ആശംസകൾ

snake icon

Sankes and indian iconography. Multi headed snake as a niche (Venomous niche) is an important factor in south east asian iconography especially Indian. 
Left to right 
Vishnu with five headed snake
Parshwanath with seven headed snake
Buddha (china) with five headed snake
Shiva with seven headed snake
Aadishesha with five headed snake
Nagaraja with five headed snake
Buddha with five headed sanke
Lakshmi narasimha with nine headed snake

social restraint

Considering the environmental damage of Anthropocene era, its impact on climate and human society are the biggest worry of humanity today, isn't time the stock exchanges across the world be subjected to a socio-cultural and environment audit?

Considering this money and profit circulated among less than 4% of the people are the only investor in such environment destruction projects that impact rest of the 96% people ( and planet earth as a whole) isn't it morally, ethically and constitutionally important to audit and fix the environment responsibility and accountability for the damages this system of cash trade brings to our day to day life and future generations?

Let us not forget, social restraint of greed is not only a moral and ethical responsibility but it is the fundamental structural need of humanity. #fixresponsibilitytostockexchange#

pieta

Till very late into my youth, I used to get scared by the sight of pregnant women. I would often get down from buses if I find some pregnant women in the bus. Despite the fact that I have a large number of sisters (cousins) in my family and has seen them pregnant, some how the very idea of a pregnant women still scares me a lot.

My fascination for Pieta may have been influenced by this fear.
pregnant women maquett (explorations of/inspired from pieta)

triple talaq

A much welcome decision by supreme court on triple talaq. Now next should be polygamy in muslim community, prohibition of divorce in roman catholics and astrological chart matching in hindu marriage. How many hindu girls are losing their chances of getting matriage due to their family's belief in manglik and other norms. Is any one ready to take them up?

is there an alternative to money?

Perhaps one of the biggest challenge for 21st century human society lies in its inability to comprehend and reinterpret the idea of money and its valuation. The recent economic surveys and study confirms that the periodicity of global economic recession has come down to a seven/six and half year cycle now. In other words in every seven and half years, a large majority of business will collapse impacting the entire economic and banking system across nations. If one further clarify, the money is loosing its value and its capacity to produce profit during every seven and half years. At this rate the day is not too far that it touches the five year cycle, a time a car depreciates( mortgage value ends) or a small and medium scale industry makes a break even!

Or elaborately speaking the current value system of money or economic model of business has reached its dead end. For the larger industry it is much worse as the product life cycle linked to consumption will go through a cycle of market depression and recovery every five years and further before even the recovery of the market take place the next depression would have set in.

Largely speaking the economic model of money, profit and business is fast becoming a redundant system. The valuation models of amazone and uber sort of business - the corporatisation of co-operative economy or privatisation of socialist models and redefining it as service industry - only has accentuated this collapse of money owing to its internal contradiction of valuation of money - between corporate and co-operative idea of profit.

At this rate no country or idealism can survive any longer as human society today is largely an organisation of money and its valuation. The tragedy of human society today is that the very intend of life on earth is now defined by its role in profit valuation linked ability of productivity tells the story. Things are valued at its capacity to contribute or holistically interpreted as one's capacity to be sustainable - a sacred terminology invented for profit viability.

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sane people of my country

Sane people of my country are shocked and feel helpless seeing the mayhem created by followers of grumit singh aka criminal cult leader after court pronouncing him guilty for rape. This socially conscious section of people feels helpless and tragic in front of tv sets wondering how could a rapist like him with criminal history, flamboyancy, arrogance of power, mockery of common sense and money power be a Guru for such a large section of poor people across three to four states and have so much political clout across party line? (to the extent while he stand accused in many criminal cases in courts, even a Prime minister of the country is forced to praise him for his contribution) They ask why would somebody want to be loyal with him?

Hello, from Kashmir to Kannaykumari, through the length and breadth of this country what else are our political leaders,
our religious sect leaders and our film stars are doing?
except a least minority, these segment thrive on these crimes that we are shocked today. They build their career by these power display and we accepted it as normal traits of powerful. We elected or selected them.

What we are seeing today in this country is our failure as human being. We outsource every fights to some idiots who have no other work than being "negative" and "skeptic" and keep on fighting losing political and court battles for justice, environment and ethics.

Why would one want to annoy the power and powerful and destroy the chances of getting some benefits of power and position that may be thrown at us by these powerful socially immoral criminals! Let those "negative" people and "skeptical" people fight it out in streets and courts against these power and powerful. If at all they win we will share their glory, else let us hide behind our comfortable pretentious ignorance or depoliticised sanitised intellectual discourses.

So let us face it. What we are seeing is our own reflection. if you have a doubt ask our children (and ourselves) how much do they know or what is their opinion about Medha patker or Ela bhatt and Sunny Leon***
Answer will reassure our fate!

***No contempt for Sunny Leon intended here, only to highlight the fact that the sane people of my country may know everything about her and would have watched her porno films/clips many times and still will hold her with contempt in their opinion- the moral duplicity of our sane people.

how to fool a nation and a technology addict government

Ask our IT mission people, they will tell you how easy it is.
First they created the UID. They marketed it as the solution for all the Indian problems. They collated and connected all information from biometric to bank and all possible personal information to it. And then they made it compulsory and forced people to surrender by influencing the prime minister. Once they made sure Billions of rupees were invested and the people and companies involved have cornered it, then they made the information vulnerable, or at least they projected it is vulnerable. They same people who vouched for the data safety and unbreakable systems in place for UID, now started shifting their position. They knew there is not much money left in data collation. They started planting stories of vulnerability of the same system in media, the same system they vouched even God can not break in. They have planted stories that now CIA has your Aadhar details :-). The new big business of data safety has emerged. They are threatening the nation and the government that your data once claimed to be solution of all your problem is now the biggest problem nations faces as it is not safe.

They say we have to now invest billions to safe guard that data. Look at the people who involved in this loot- the people and companies!. some of them are back hale and healthy into the companies that propagated the UID idea to corner data safety investments!!

They have royally looted this nation by fooling the people and government.

Aadhar data is a pandoras box and in the process of its safe storage and retrieval it going to cost hundreds of billions in coming years with very little use.

The day is not too far that it surpasses the actual defence expenses.

Destroy it or lock it up in vault is the best way forward than keeping it alive to save money for welfare of the nation and safeguard its people.

Modi and trump

The one time labour party mp and now right wing propagator lord Meghnad Desai's book equating Narendra Modi and the american mistake (perhaps worst mistake) Donald Trump is confusing.

In the tv discussion although everyone was in praise of the book and the lord, I found it is unbelievable. Meghnad Desai can not be ignorant of the semantics of the title, so his insinuation that the traits that elected Prime minister Modi and Donald trump are same and Mr. Modi and liberal ideals stand as binary as in the case trump are little too farfetched from reality and are an atrocious act from a British MP and a supposedly BJP's right wing supporter.

Although RSS and its fringe outlets may have created fundamentalist mayhem in this country including heinous "cow vigilante" lynching, but except for selected BJP leaders, Prime minister Modi as prime minister, other than his nationalistic streak so far has not exhibited any bigotry or acted in any manner that deserve him to be compared with as horrible person as Donald trump.

The fact is he is yet to match the left of the centre's political idol Indira Gandhi in her worst performance of declaring emergency, destabilising federal system of elected state governments, use of article 356 and undermining constitutional institutions.

So this insinuation from his one time political mentor now looks like his political harbinger is amusing.

guru

Let me bail out myself from this potential agony -in this country of regressive guru concept, keeping my profession in mind whenever somebody refer to me as teacher(guru) , I gets scared and keeps a distance

demonetisation results

Post RBI declaration of demonetisation data bhakts will make Prime minister's position further untenable like the narrative of " the struggle of soldier standing at border" cooked up during demonetisation period :-)

Fact is many avoidable tall claims by the government, economic under secretary (not even RBI which is responsible for Cash matters) such as terror funding, black money and bringing corrupt to booking and worst the rich will lose their cash made the situation worst for the government. Don't blame anyone else. The whole narratives are still out there in the web before bakhts wants us to blink.

RBI says it is 99% and still many notes are to be counted, and the chances are that the percentage might go up.
Even as we admit the 1% of cash, roughly translated by RBI at 16 thousand crores of un-returned money post demonetisation at the cost of 21 thousand crore printing cost of new currency does not in any manner becomes a consolation for the government for the mere reason 1% cash evaporation is also an equivalent melt down in economy! This is basic economics.

The fault number two of demonetisation lies in the fact that it was projected as an attempt to curb the higher denomination notes of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000. But with the remonetisation of market with Rs.500 and Rs.2000/- situation has become worse with Rs. 2000/- becoming the biggest circulation!.

Considering according to government's own sources 74% market is remonetized with hard currency, the next big claim of digitisation has become another faulty claim. statistics shows the digital transactions have come down during the last quarter of the demonetisation period.

Tax base widening also has no connection as the government's own statistics shows the tax collection/base increased during the voluntary declaration time and the post demonetisation increase in tax base still remain at 24- 25% the percentage increase during the previous two years.

The list of economic parameters and data refuting the tall claims will go on. But the big question is the prime minister although can not escape the blame, but considering he is not an economist and RBI as a constitutional authority of cash economy did not advise him appropriately and failed the nation should not be allowed to go without action.

The loss of 1.5 million jobs, 150 and odd deaths, as of now without any evidence of recovery of black money, enforced slowing down of economy, increase of budgetary deficit, resource crunch and the monumental suffering to people of the country for an extended period is not something RBI can hogwash. The governor must be made to answer the nation.
Neeti ayog chief of the period any way has escaped before the result came.

5.7% decline of growth rate should not entirely be clubbed to demonetisation as it has a lot to do with the GST implementation, the unification of cash economy along with political unification, a long time need of the country. Also the decline is also a reflection of global economic situation.

But certainly this should be a wake up call for Mr. Modi about the importance of independence of constitutional institutions in India like the erstwhile planning commission and the RBI in their role to interrupt government process to remind the larger consequences of an action of political expediency.

If the planning commission was in position, RBI governor was independent this demonetisation would not have taken place at all and this crisis.

The worst is yet to come in economy. The complex chain reactions only have began. From unemployment to farm and industrial production mismatch is going to be the next big worry. Also considering the projected telecom industry melt down is not any more only a skepticism but a potential danger, the days ahead does not promise anything rosy for this government. Historically in every economy it is seen the governments under such circumstance assert its position by the use of law enforcement agencies like police and income tax to confirm its position and history also tells us the serious consequences of such acts of desperation accentuating the crisis.

Better this government set its record correct than allowing its fake news agencies to make its position further vulnerable. Accept the demonetisation did not achieve its objectives and move on.