ZEST( Zeal! Enthuse! Sensitize! Team! The perfect recipe for change!) launched an exhibition MOURNuments in JNU on 15th and 16th Feb'07 showcasing paintings and photographs to expose the plight of our heritage! Yes it was not art for art's sake, it was all for a purpose or rather a mission. It is foolish to get complacent after our first success, none the less it was an occasion to celebrate! In two days we were able to attract close to about 300 visitors and received around 130 detailed comments!
These are positive signs to launch a crusade against APATHY!
So help us make a difference by fighting indifference!!!
Blog on and join our movement... and make it YOUR movement!
3 comments:
Wait-a-go! Great start.
Now, if you really want to reach out to those that do the actual defacing (fat chance JNU students are the major offenders), you might want to consider taking the exhibition to the monuments themselves, and confront the actual miscreants with the evidence. Spend some more time at the scene of the crime if you really want this endevour to catch on.
Something just came to my mind. Random thought. If one sees someone preparing to pee or spit or inscribe something on a monument, one must go up to that person and say "pee, spit or inscribe on me first. by defacing indian culture, you will end up defacing the indian identity, so why not deface the indian too, whlie you're at it". It just might work. Gandhigiri style!
Also, I think rishabh's right. Swamp the ASI with this evidence. I've known it to work in the past. Its also a good idea to send these pics to major newspapers - they usually take up such causes readily.
Lastly, this may have started as a project, but the true test will come when your project reports have been submitted. keep at it for the sake of the country. dont le it die after you've got your marks. this will take time to succeed. perhaps many years. you need to keep it afloat as a passion, not just a project.
We totally agree with you Saatvic, we need to take this exhibition and movement beyond the classroom to the common public. We need to go to the monuments and do the same. JNU was targeted only to get more ideas on how we as a group can make this class project into a larger movement. We had posters draped across the walls of the exhibition area to invite comments and most importantly suggestions. This online program is also an effort to get healthy responses like the one's you and Shiva have posted.
Great going guys...Keep it up!
saatvic has made some very pertinent observations and suggestions above. Might be a good idea to involve corporate houses to 'adopt a monument' or to design a campaign that will essentially aim at prevention through education; and seek corporate endorsement to sustain it. It's a worthy cause and certainly the kind that the larger corporate houses can endorse. Build up the momentum first. You need to be able to support your contention with proof of public viability. A good way to obtain this is through a signature campaign or a 'hits' counter on a website. Might it not also be preferable having a website rather than a blog?
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