20.5x28.5 inches; Pen drawing on handmade paper with watercolour wash (Click on image to enlarge)
Terrorism, violence, hate, intolerance, mindless chaos and the ebbing value of human lives define our existence in a so called ‘Progressive Society’. Peace is a fool’s paradise. Secularism is a joke. Freedom is just an empty promise, caged in fear. Being brave seems like an act of stupidity! Culture has become a dictate of those in power who rarely have any clear knowledge on the subject. Political leaders have become new age prophets, the media their preaching ground and the majority of the mass their mind controlled followers! In such times, it is not difficult to imagine how a group of young messiahs of doom managed to storm into Mumbai from the sea, to gun down their fellow human beings at random, or why the Twin Towers of New York have become history! In our fight against others we are forgetting ourselves. This painting is an ode to those lost values. It is my probing question for you, ‘Has the human milk of kindness run dry?’
