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This is a burning issue of attack on humanism and this is worldwide. We can’t side pass this fact as describing it is political. When my next door is burning under fire, I can’t sleep deeply by shutting my door.

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We Condemn Terrorism

Though this is not an issue of a creative people or to interact with creative thoughts in this ‘Creative Crossing’, this is a burning issue of attack on humanism and this is worldwide. We can’t side pass this fact as describing it is political. When my next door is burning under fire, I can’t sleep deeply by shutting my door.

Yes, I am talking about the recent terrorist attack in Mumbai. Since last few years, not only in India, through out world, from the destruction of twin tower in America, this is a major threat into our mankind as well a major threat into our creative thinking.

Though you all are well aware this recent news of the terrorist attack in Mumbai, I am quoting this news from the major news agencies for your update. I welcome your valuable contributions of comments & suggestions in this major threat. I welcome your creative protests in the form of paintings, drawings, poetry or else. Please join us & make it a strong platform of protest against terrorism.

Gunmen who arrived by boats launched attacks on at least seven locations in Mumbai, India, on Wednesday night, killing more than 120 people, authorities say.

Indian soldiers take position outside Chabad House, the scene of one the Mumbai attacks.
By Friday morning, authorities believed militants still were in two luxury hotels and a Jewish center in the city.
The following is what is known about the attacks:
• Gunmen arrived by boats at the Mumbai waterfront near the Gateway of India monument on Wednesday night, police said. The gunmen hijacked cars, including a police van, and split into at least three groups to carry out the attacks, according to police.
• One group headed toward the Cafe Leopold, a popular hangout for Western tourists, firing indiscriminately at passers-by on the street. The group then opened fire and lobbed grenades at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station, authorities said.
• As police rushed to the scene of the attacks, gunmen attacked the Cama Hospital for women and infants. Several people were killed at the hospital, and a standoff there lasted until Thursday morning.

• Two other groups attacked the Oberoi and Taj Mahal hotels, taking hostages there, police said.

• Gunmen also took hostages at the Chabad House, where several Jewish families live, police said. Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, the city's envoy for the community, was being held inside with his wife, a member of the Hasidic Jewish movement said. Gunmen and hostages still were believed to be in the house Friday morning.
• Police said gunmen fired indiscriminately from the Chabad House. Stray bullets killed a couple in their home and a 16-year-old boy who stepped outside, police said. Two women and a child escaped from the building Thursday, a government official says.

• At the hotels, hostages or people who were trapped left at various times Thursday and Friday. Commandos entered both hotels, trying to flush out militants and rescue others.
• By Friday 12:30 a.m. IT, one gunman remained in the Taj hotel, and two others remained at the Oberoi hotel, the director-general of the National Security Guards said. At 1 a.m., one gunman was killed at the Oberoi hotel, the official said. He said he couldn't say for sure how many gunmen were still at the Oberoi.
• An undetermined number of nonmilitants remained inside the hotels Friday morning, NSG director-general J.K. Dutt said. "There are some of them inside the rooms, and they are not prepared to open the doors," he said. "Probably they are fearing that it might not be an innocent."

• Fire brigades battled fires at both hotels. By early Friday, it appeared what had been a major fire at the Oberoi had been extinguished.

• By Friday morning, 125 had been killed in the attacks, including at least six foreigners, authorities said. An Italian and a Briton were among the confirmed dead. Another 327 people were wounded, including seven Britons, three Americans and two Australians.
• Authorities found 8 kilograms (17 pounds) of RDX, one of the most powerful kinds of military explosives, at a restaurant near the Taj, indicating that the attackers may have been planning more violence.

• The Indian navy, stepping up patrols on the country's western coast after the attack, was questioning the crew of the MV Alpha, a ship detained with the help of the Indian coast guard, British authorities said. The authorities said they believe the attackers' boats came from this ship, and that they believe the ship is from Karachi, Pakistan.

• Karachi police say they have no evidence the attackers departed from their city.
• Several Indian news outlets report a group called the Deccan Mujahideen e-mailed them to claim responsibility. Intelligence officials say little is known about the group. U.S. officials and security analysts say the sophistication of the attacks may indicate a more-established group is responsible.

• State media Press Trust of India, citing Union Cabinet Minister Kapil Sibal, reported the gunmen had worked for months to prepare, even setting up "control rooms" in the two luxury hotels that were targeted.

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Comment by Ajit Vahadane on January 10, 2009 at 11:38am: Dear Artists friends,
We have started accepting entries for the selection process for Indian art exhibition in Taman Ismail Marzuki,Indonesia's most famous Cultural complex in Jakarta for Art exhibitions/Dance/Theatre/Music .

For full details visit our website www.indianfinearts.com and see NEXT EXHIBITION section on the top of the website or go to the link http://www.indianartistsnetwork.com/nxt_int_exhibition.asp

Highlights of the Exhibition

For year 2009, you may participate in our exhibition or if you can not afford the contribution fees, you can put your artwork in full page in our catalogues by paying just Rs.7000.Your full A-4 size page will have one of your artworks image and your full contact details. Catalogues will be printed only if there are enough paid entries to cover the cost of catalogues. Selected Artists contributing and participating in the exhibition will be put into catalogues free of charge.

Catalogues is the best option for sculptors / ceramic artists / Installations artists as it is expensive to take these heavy objects abroad
1)All artists complete contact details will be printed on price tags of paintings during the exhibition. We have sold more than 100 paintings so far in our exhibitions and in 2008 we have sold 16 paintings and full amount has been paid to all artists

2) All art buyers are encouraged to directly contact you from exhibition hall itself

3)If paintings are sold,100% amount goes to respective artists without any deductions-No commission to anyone including us.

4)Full support of Indian Embassy and Indian cultural centre in Jakarta who every year arrange a grand opening ceremony and call all important VIPs and Indonesian and Indian business leaders. This year a grand dance program and a lavish dinner party was arranged for us by Indian Embassy and JNICC. We are deeply thankful to JNICC and Indian Embassy who encourage us every year.

5) Massive Publicity was in various media.

A) Our exhibition was given one full page in Monthly program bulletin by TIM and 2000 were distributed to their regular mailing list. Rest of 8000 pamphlets were distributed throughout the city from various places.
B) Newsletter of Indian cultural centre published our exhibition news in their monthly issue
C) Invitation cards were sent to all major websites and yahoo groups connected with Indonesia. Please see following websites and yahoo groups.

a) www.artsindonesia.com
b) www.rovinginsight.org
c) www.indoindians.com
d) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Friends_of_india_abroad/
e) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OurArtistsFriendsExhibitions/
f) 3 more art related yahoo groups in Indonesia

These websites may have removed our exhibition from their websites but we have taken all prints of those items if anyone wants to see them.
D) Thousands of emails were sent to all art lovers , friends and cultural related personalities
E) Following newspapers gave us wide publicity-All newspaper cuttings are available
1) Jakarta post-Indonesia’s biggest no.1 English newspaper-Two days news items and 7days in WHERE TO GO IN JAKARTA section for 7 times
2) Kompas-Indonesia’s No.1 Bahasa Indonesia newspaper
3) Media Indonesia-Indonesia’s Major newspaper
4) 1/3 Page advertisement in Visual Art Magazine –Indonesia’s biggest Art magazine
5) Nine huge banners were put up at strategic locations in TIM complex so that no one who enters TIM complex miss the banners.

6) Because of our communication efforts, majority of 15 Indian artists went to Olympic art events during Olympics games in Beijing in China. Four Indonesian and one Brirish artists also got selected for Olympics because of us.Olympics Art organizing committee has thanked us for our efforts by email and had even invited us to China and sent us Visa too but I could not go because of exhibition in Jakarta

Many Indian artists have applied for Switzerland residency program and Asian paintings award by Sovereign foundation in Hongkong.Wishing our artist all the best.

7)This is a Not-for-profit activity and selling paintings is not our goal even though we try hard for it. Connecting artists with art buyers and art galleries abroad is our MAIN GOAL. Those artists who are looking for SALE ONLY need not apply for the exhibition as they may get frustrated if there is no sale.
In 2007 more than 70 paintings were bought by Korean art buyers directly from artists who participated in our Jakarta exhibition.There was no commission paid to anyone including us. All artists directly dealt with Korean art buyers themselves.

8) Your contribution per painting will be Rs.20000 for 7 days exhibition and Rs.25000 for two weeks exhibition. We do Framing / Media publicity Air freight / Transportation / Invitation cards / Inauguration function and huge banners for publicity in TIM complex

9) We keep on sending information to all Indian artists in India and abroad about all new chances that our artists may apply for Competitions /awards / scholarships / residency programs in the world.

10) We had successfully participated in Art Singapore in 2007 and Art expo Malaysia in 2009.Please ask us about them if you are serious about participating there.

11) I am returning from Jakarta in Feb.2009 and will return all artists paintings which were not sold during exhibition in 2008 except those artists who have not paid their contributions.

12)Certificates signed by H.E.Indian Ambassador Me.Biren Nanda and Mr.Singh , Director of Indian cultural centre in Jakarta will sent to all artists who participated in 2008

Please send your resumes in word file and images of your artworks in jpeg files to admin@indianfinearts.com for the selection process

Full report of exhibition will be sent to all artists who apply for exhibition in 2009.Artists can see paintings and exhibition photographs on our website www.indianfinearts.com

Thanking you and wishing you a highly creative and peaceful new year 2009

Yours Sincerely

Ajit Vahadane
admin@indianfinearts.com
www.indianfinearts.com
Mobile-9821656016

Comment by ANANT DALAL on December 25, 2008 at 9:33pm: Dear All,
I have gone through many comments made by the invitees to the group & majority have condemned the act of terrorism. I think this is not sufficient. You all are part of the elite group with lot of ability to portrait what exactly you want to say while agreeing to condemn such acts, I wish you create such things that produce a real impact on minds of rulers of those countries who are totally blind to the creators of factory of terrorism (which are mainly located in the land of PAKISTAN & may be in some other countries) who does nothing to stop such activities being taking place on their land. Even the Militaries who backs such activities to create chaos, tension, terror, complications & confusion on the land of other countries for NO UNDERSTANDABLE REASONS.
Anant Dalal

Comment by Chetana Pandya on December 20, 2008 at 5:55pm: ANGER AND LOVE..!

A sage asked his disciples," Why do we Yell in anger?
"Why do people yell at each other when they are upset?'

The man thought for a while and replied, "Because we lose our calm and hence yell.."

"But, why to Yell when the other person is just next to you?' asked the sage...
"Isn't it possible to speak to him or her with a soft voice?
Why do you yell at a person when you're angry?'

The man gave some other answers but none satisfied the sage.
Finally he explained,
"When two people are angry at each other, their hearts distance a lot.
To cover that distance they must yell, to be able to hear each other.
The angrier they are, the stronger they will have to yell to hear each other through
that great distance.'
Then the sage asked, What happens when two people fall in love?
They do not yell at each other but talk softly, why?
Their hearts are very close.
The distance between them is very small...
The sage continued, 'When they love each other even more, what happens?
They do not speak, only whisper and they get even closer to each other in their love.
Finally they even need not whisper, they only look at each other and that's all.
That is how close two people are when they love each other.'
Then the sage said, 'When you argue do not let your hearts get distant,
do not say words that distance each other more, else there will come a day
when the distance is so great that you will not find the path to return.'
*Lets reach across the lines that divide us,
not with pointing fingers but outstretched hands*
I just thought of sharing this with you all.

Comment by Ajit Vahadane on December 17, 2008 at 11:16am: What is more important? Peace and co-existence or Creativity and freedom of expression?

Please join this discussion forum on my page
http://www.indianartnews.com/group/whatismoreimportantpeaceandcoexistenceorcreativity

I wish artists react to this discussion frankly.Most of the questions related to religion /violence / terrorism and politics will be answered through a vigorous discussion related to Art.Finding a final answers to social problems is extremely difficult but at least we shall have a clue of direction that we must follow.

Comment by nehasingh on December 17, 2008 at 10:08am: feeling proud to join dis site.............i cn understand d condition......i hv faced dis........jammu kashmir is better known for dese kind of acts...............looking positively if i cn do something for ma country..........

Comment by Rebanta Goswami on December 11, 2008 at 12:34pm: I congratulate Anant for speaking the truth. The recent terrorist attack on Mumbai is the end result of the divisions in Indian political leaders and society. We should try to fight the home-terrorists first before we take measures against the imported terrorism.

Comment by ANANT DALAL on December 10, 2008 at 10:27pm: It great irony that great HINDUSTAN (BHARAT) divided due to some politician EGO and arrogant attitude that the PAKISTAN born to which GANDHIJI, was strongly against but to gave way to the selfishness of those time politicians, who could not vision the future except great Ghandhiji. His message was of love humanity and not to divide them between religions. No one listen to him and now we are suffering heavily. We are now the target of stubborn religious head in our neighborhood country. I wish the politician drop away from mere selfishness and foolishness to get the chairs only and fill up their pockets at the expense of the gullible citizens who vote them to power to care for them.

Basic root of such dastardly & mindless acts of terrorism lies in improper education policy and disproportionate wealth distribution down the line.I think we have to make progress in this direction very swiftly and to see the proper distribution of wealth take place so that everybody is happy.

Then we will not see such terrorist on our land.

Anant

Comment by Chetana Pandya on December 2, 2008 at 9:08am: Let us love the world to peace

Comment by Zhenlian on December 2, 2008 at 8:06am: I am against all kinds of terrorism and violence,whether it is illicit or explicit.When will all these hideous barbarities end? We are supposed to live in a civilized world, but such barbarious violence tell us the contrary, we are still a long way to a civilized world not to say a Utopia!