Mirza Ghalib's Haveli Let Out For A Marriage Function!, Candlelight March for keeping the flame burning Options

[Bhavita]

Could not find any other forum to post this, hence posting this on what I thought was the most appropriate forum since Gulzarji has been actively involved with the candle light walk

The news is that Mirza Ghalib's haveli was let out as a venue to host marriage parties. Apparently the caretaker of the haveli was later suspended.

Gulzar, director Vishal Bharadwaj and his wife and singer Rekha Bharadwaj were a part of the candlelight vigil to commemorate Mirza Ghalib's 212 birthday, and the movement against misuse of the haveli for such commercial activities

More details on this article.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/de...how/5383040.cms

[simplefable]

This mean-spirited bigotry and lack of respect for our ancestry is really very depressing.

Lack of respect apart, this is nothing short of vandalism.

Faraaj, Suresh..i totally agree with you. Art / Culture /Heritage are above religion and region. The art at Vatican moved me as much as i see else where, the oldest temples or our own Charminar !
Charminar is in the center of a road, acting more like a traffic island !! with the kind of pollution around it, am sure that this work of art wont last for long ..posting a pic of it..

[Faraaj73]

This mean-spirited bigotry and lack of respect for our ancestry is really very depressing.

Lack of respect apart, this is nothing short of vandalism.

Faraaj, Suresh..i totally agree with you. Art / Culture /Heritage are above religion and region. The art at Vatican moved me as much as i see else where, the oldest temples or our own Charminar !
Charminar is in the center of a road, acting more like a traffic island !! with the kind of pollution around it, am sure that this work of art wont last for long ..posting a pic of it..

SF

This Charminar is beautiful. I'd love to see it one day. Which city is it in?

You know, if one studies the history of our part of the world, there is a lot to take pride in. The real face of hinduism was one of remarkable humility and tolerance for all creeds. The modern face (RSS, BJP et al) has really moved away from the inclusiveness that is at the heart of the original and inspiring hindu faith/culture.

There is no trace of the historic religions the Greeks supplanted, because they wiped out any trace. When the Romans gained ascendancy, they destroyed Greek temples or built their Roman temples on top of the original Greek ones. When Christianity came, among the first things they did was to deface the Roman statues by breaking the noses and putting a cross on the forehead. SF, you would've seen that in Rome. An example of Christian bigotry was taking the most remarkable "pagan" symbol of all - the Pantheon - and stripping it of its beautiful marble and gold in order to use that for St Peter's Basilica.

While there are examples of wanton destruction even in the early years, Islamic rule was the first example of religious tolerance in the Middle East or Europe. Coming out of hundreds of years of muslim rule, many Eastern Europe still retain the frescoes on their churches that date back to early Christianity. The rock churches of Cappadocia are still intact. In an edict issued by the church in the 1100's, one of the charges levelled against the Mohammedan faith was that it had no genuine conviction because it tolerated all other creeds. All this is a far cry from the angry and largely hostile attitude of the muslim masses today.

The real tragedy is that we have fallen and forgotten our fine past.