tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60952282078407934352024-03-25T05:02:26.228+05:30Francoise BosteelsIconic Dolls, Sacred ArtFrancoise Bosteelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298634149588872386noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6095228207840793435.post-17717414801385302542019-10-10T16:08:00.000+05:302019-06-03T14:54:30.304+05:30Welcome!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book presents a collection of dolls made
over a period of thirty five years by Francoise Bosteels, a Belgian by birth who
came to India forty years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“The
Dolls Speak. Their images speak too. They bid us listen. They speak of the
common people and their every day life. They represent phases of our human
condition, and facets of our domestic, social, religious and aesthetic life.
They are not dolls in the dictionary sense of ‘models for children to play
with’. They show us around and guide us towards a deeper awareness of the
‘other India’, the India of the excluded, the oppressed and the
despised. They make problems present and challenge us to responsible
intervention. We stand summoned to probe, grasp and disclose the human depths
and the hidden riches of people’s daily life. These dolls urge us to join the
masses in their struggle to change what ill accords with human dignity and hurts
the wholeness of the human family”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
dolls are created from the author’s real experiences in India. Born of
compassion and love, “They are a part of me”, their maker tells us
touchingly, “and I a part of them”. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">~ Samuel Rayan<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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December 1996, the Ecumenical Association of Third-World Theologians (EATWOT)
held its fourth international meeting in Tagaytay, Philippines. The theme of
the conference was: Globalisation and its impact on People’s Life, The challenges
to Theology.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
was invited to present these dolls to illustrate some of the issues that were
bound to come up in the discussion of the theme.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Women
participants suggested we publish a book with pictures of these dolls and brief
write-ups to go with them. They felt that such a book would illustrate many of
the points that came up in the presentations and the discussions. They hoped
that the book would be EATWOT women’s contribution towards an understanding of
such aspects of globalisation that tend to diminish the quality of life in
Third-World countries. Hence the creation of the book, ‘The Dolls Speak’
released in year 2000 with a first exhibition open to the public.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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hundred dolls in this book illustrate the artistic and creative aspects of
people’s lives. They relate to the household and the village, to tragedies and
various forms of oppression, to caste, class and gender issues, the destruction
of mother earth, signs of resistance and hope, of liberation movements and
celebration of life. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Much
has happened since the first book, ‘The Dolls Speak’ was published in 2000. Inspired and
challenged by various social realities, my reflection and artistic creations
continued to take shape throughout the years. My friends have also been
encouraging me to bring out an updated second edition of the book. The task has
been challenging because all the pictures taken on slides now had to be
re-taken on digital camera. I took this opportunity to add 20 new pictures of
dolls with writings to go with, created after the release of the two later
publications: ‘Through The Needle’s Eye’, and ‘Human Icons, Sacred Stories’. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">than clever words!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">~ Jane Sahi</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Come Buy my Koodai</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Come buy my koodai.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">They’re strong; they’ll last,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">may be for years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Frail did you say?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Each strip I weave</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">takes strength from the next;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">each koodai we make</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">goes back in time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">to when matting began.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">My mother taught me the skill;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">she got it from hers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">You’ve switched to plastic!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">How long will those last?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">How long have those been with us?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And till when will they be safe?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">My koodai will never fail you;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">store food or what you will.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The bamboo’s fresh from a clump I know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">What dump is your plastic from?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">~ Jyoti Sanyal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Krishna with the Flute</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I am a flute in the Lord’s palm,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">waiting for the divine breath</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">that wakes to life</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">the plants and the flowers,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">the lamb, and the duck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The cosmic, human, and divine</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">merge into one flow of love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Krishna’s music filled women</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">with joy and peace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">His flute drew them </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">to the divine musician</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">and woke them </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">to a new sense of their worth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">His flute, the harmony of its notes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">entranced all creation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">into Krishna’s world of love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">~ Philo Varghese</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>I Learn</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">My daughter is at school;</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I learn at home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I get my child</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">to tell me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">what she has been told.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Today I wrote my name;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">my address too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">But I must hurry</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">and learn much more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The moneylender </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">keeps showing me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">figures I cannot read.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">He tells me I haven’t paid my loan as yet </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">though I pay him every week.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I need to read what he writes down</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">in that book of his;</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">he fudges figures; this I know</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">but I cannot</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">match his trick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">~ Jyoti Sanyal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>The Carpenter</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Hello, carpenter!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">So stooped, so bend, so squat, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">so bowed as in prayer; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> What are you doing?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I create, as the Lord did create!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Create what?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Newness!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Newness in shape, in form and in function.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Dead wood I turn to things you can use,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">giving life better odds, better options.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">How do you create?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I chip and chisel, I plane and polish,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I fit and rivet, and fix little parts.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">To plain wood I give form, function and finish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Creation is work done with passion and relish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">How do you actually create?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I look at the log, this wood and its temper,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">to see what I can make of this lump and timber,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">to give to all life more options, more flavour,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">to suit human needs, human taste and savour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Then the Lord smiles, AND I LABOUR!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">~ Dominic George</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Landless</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Go away!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">YOU!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">What do you want?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Season after season,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">we see you,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">the likes of you.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">What do you want to know?</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">caste?</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">No, we are outcastes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Food?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Hardly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Home?</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">If you call it so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Land?</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">No. No. NO.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Listen!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Do you want to know something?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Give us land.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Some land.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Not promises, but land.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Land we can call our own.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Land with no landlord.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Land we could work on.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Land whose product we could own.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">So, no one could throw us out.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Burn our homes.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Rape our women.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Roast us alive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Yes, give us land.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Then we will have food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Clothes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Dignity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Maybe, we have a caste too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Right now, we have nothing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Women Heal the Earth</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">She bleeds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">With every slash on her body</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">she weeps!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The electric saw cuts deep….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">cuts quickly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And slowly the forest dies….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">the soil dies….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">the earth dies….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">God knows that the earth weeps,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">and weeps with her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">She bleeds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">With every battering of her body</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">she weeps!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">His hand has power.… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It cuts deep into her gentle soul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We all weep!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Slowly the women die….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The community dies….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">and weeps with them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The women use their wounded bodies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">to save their trees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">They cling to trees, defying death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">They stop the saw.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">They stop the flow of blood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">They heal the forest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">They heal the earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The women resist the violence,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">the power of the arrogant and strong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The women transcend suffering and pain</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">to save their lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Women of the CHIPKO movement,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">women of the earth,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">women survivors of violence,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">women of hope….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">They weep no more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">They heal their bodies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">They heal the earth.…</span></div>
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Francoise Bosteelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298634149588872386noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6095228207840793435.post-58961088209682875702013-11-30T17:47:00.000+05:302014-04-30T11:11:37.989+05:30Hibou and her Baby<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It all started at the end of January. Mother owl took shelter in the gaps between the tiles on the roof of the cottage where lives Didi.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Owls hunt at night and rest in the daytime. On her return from her night’s duty, Mother owl would wake up Didi from her deep sleep with the flapping of her wings. She brought bits of meat for her two newborn babies. It may have been one or two or even three o’clock early in the morning, but yet, Didi would stir awake as soon as Mother owl arrived. She soon got into the habit of responding to Mother owl’s loud voice announcing the meal that she’d brought for her children. <br />“Here’s your dinner, dear little ones,” Mother owl would gently wake her babies up. Didi could hear the children chirping in glee. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This story was repeated every night or early morning for many, many days. <br />Didi thought that this would make an interesting tale to narrate to her brother Dindin. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />One day, Mother owl happened to overhear Didi and Dindin talking about her, and so she sent the following message to Dindin:<br />“Hello Dindin! Great brother Dindin! I, Mother owl, send you my greetings from high up in a tall coconut tree.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Didi has sheltered me and my two babies for weeks on the roof of her cottage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She likes to call me Hibou which means ‘owl’ in a language that Didi speaks. The name has given me an identity of my own! My name is ‘Hibou’ now, and so I am not any nameless bird! I spend much of my time high up on the coconut tree, calling out to my babies, who are safe in the gaps between the tiles on Didi’s roof. I guess the time has come for them to leave their secure habitat and bid goodbye to their Mamma’s protective care. But, alas! My little grown-up babies still feel insecure, scared to stretch their wings and take their first jump from off the roof top and into open space. They are still a little hesitant to explore how life looks like in the sky and how the earth looks from above. Is this a sign that they still need their Mother's care? Tell me, my dear. You are a wise brother Dindin. And, if the time has indeed come for them to go off on their own, should I bid farewell forever to sister Didi and the delightful roof of her cottage? Maybe she’ll tell me that I should learn to trust, that my two grown-up babies are in the protective hands of their GREAT CREATOR, that they have to bid their Mamma goodbye, and that they will probably never be heard of again.”<br />Mother Hibou sat high up on the coconut tree and spent the whole day calling her little grown-up babies. Non-stop she called them, on and on again. One of them, in a gesture of obedience, ran out of the tiles on the roof and leapt into the air. But, alas! It tripped and fell to the ground! As you can well imagine, Mother Hibou was heartbroken. As luck would have it, a short while later, Didi passed by and saw the baby on the ground. She gently lifted the little one and held it in the palm of her hand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It could easily be hurt by a dog, a cat, pouring rain, or an ill-intentioned human if it were left to fend for itself. Didi heard Mother Hibou desperately calling out for help. Didi hadn’t ever touched a baby owl before, but she couldn’t resist the sight of the poor little thing. Nor could she turn a deaf ear to Mother Hibou’s cries. Didi went away, crading the baby owl in the palm of her hand.<br />Would Mother Hibou, Didi wondered, fly down from the top of the coconut tree and pick up her baby from her hand? Did Mother Hibou approve of Didi’s gesture of concern? Did she sense that Didi would care for her little one? Hopefully she did! What is the mystery in Mother Hibou’s trust? Did Didi interpret Mother Hibou’s desperate call from her own narrow perspective? Is Mother Hibou unaware of the question of her child’s survival that Didi has now to tackle? How will Didi feed baby owl? She’s never fed an owl before! Who is there to catch a rat, a frog, a snake, a worm for baby owl, who is still unable to get its food on its own? Didi has powdered leaves of a certain plant with her. She read somewhere that some birds feed on these leaves, which they gather from salty lakes in tropical lands. And so, she mixes the leaf-powder with some water, pours the mixture into a syringe, and patiently starts to feed the concoction to baby owl, drop by drop. Two days later, baby owl is healed from the shock of having fallen down, but he is still unable to stretch his wings. He stands on his legs and looks around the four white washed walls of the room where Didi has kept him. He also accepts tiny bits of meat that Didi feeds him. Would this be the realization of a promise of survival? Didi is quite ignorant of owls’ natures, customs and traditions. She spoke to baby owl and made a covenantal promise to do all she could to help him to grow up healthy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She promised to let him free as soon as he stretches out its wings towards the infinite sky. Didi hopes that lovely owls endure forever. <br />Dindin responds to Didi’s story. Wow, this is so amazing, he thinks! He says that he always knew that Didi would be baby owl’s friend in some way… and so she is! And not just a friend, but the baby’s second mother! The gentle spirit of Mother Hibou speaks eloquently through Didi’s voice! Brother Dindin is sure that Mother Hibou is happy to leave her baby in the tender love and care of big Sister Didi. She understands, just like Didi, that we are all temporary pilgrims on this earth, with no permanent resting place. Our true home is in the vastness of the Sky…the infinite and eternal Sky! And, our hearts will remain restless until they rest in the vastness of the inner unfathomable Silence. <br />Dindin is really happy to hear all that’s happened. He -big brother- wishes sister Didi all the very best in her new adventure. Dindin’s prayers and wishes of good health are always there with her. Do take care, he says. <br />“I have much to tell you, dear brother Dindin,” says Baby Owl. “Many days have passed, and see how I look! I’m well-fed. My feathers are growing. I’m healthy, and I get good sleep, though I am as yet unable to fly high.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At sunset, Mother Didi takes me out in the green surroundings. I breathe in fresh air, wonder at the trees, and hear melodious sounds. Safe in the palm of her hands, nothing frightens me. Back in my little four-walled dwelling, I peep through the top of the door that Mother Didi keeps slightly open so that she can keep an eye on my mischievous behaviour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At night, I hear my little baby sister’s chippings from between the roof tiles -she is still there-. I can also hear my Mamma, whom Mother Didi has named Hibou, whisper: ‘Here I am, baby’.”<br />This is what Dindin wrote in reply: “Dear Baby! Greetings from brother Dindin! I’m happy to hear that you’re keeping fine. Don’t worry; you’re in safe hands with Mother Didi. Enjoy your stay with her, eat well, sleep well and grow big and strong! A time will come when you will be ready to spread your wings and fly into the great big sky. Until then, relax and play with your new Mamma Didi, who takes good care of you, with joy, wonder and lots of love. Be well, my little friend. Really, I can’t wait to see you soon!” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here is what Didi wrote to Dindin the other day: “Dear Dindin! I met with a friend who lives in the woods. People who live in the woods know many things about the trees and about various creatures that inhabit the forest. They have much wisdom and experience. The forest is sacred. It is the life-partner of those who live in it. This friend’s advice is as follows: If a baby owl happens to fall from its nest, observe from afar what's happening to him and what a mother owl might be doing if she were around. Only in rare cases of extreme danger should a baby owl be taken into human hands. Once so taken, a mother owl refuses to recognize its baby, who then survives if someone is kind enough to domesticate it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That’s a challenging and mysterious reality that we ‘rational’ humans cannot understand. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am now faced with a great dilemma about whether or not I should adopt a baby owl. I don’t want a caged bird, with clipped wings, and tied feet, fearfully crying for freedom.<br />Love, Didi”. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />Now that Didi has taken charge of baby owl, she is responsible for what she has undertaken to nurture and is confronted with an ethical question of its survival. Did Didi render a disservice to baby owl by expressing her love and compassion by taking baby? Can Mother Hibou really disown her own child? Who will teach baby owl to hunt for food in the dark of the night? Didi refused to domesticate baby just to satisfy her ego. She would not hurt baby’s identity as an owl by doing so. Owls are created with a Divine purpose. They are sons and daughters of the great forest. They must behave as God intended them to. Didi struck upon a wonderful solution to the great dilemmas she faced. One day, she brought baby owl in front of a mirror and whispered: ‘Little Baby, do you recognize your own species?’ Looking into a mirror may be a strange experience for baby owl, thought Didi. It might even be great fun! When Didi put baby owl in front of the mirror, he turned his head around, in all the four directions, his beak open wide in wonder. ‘I’m cleverer than Didi!’, he squealed, ‘It’s me, just me, only me!’</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Baby owl narrated to brother Dindin the following:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Life between the four walls of Mother Didi’s room continues as usual. Mother Didi is very engaged these days. The other day, she went for an anti -corruption protest rally in the city’s Peace Garden. She left some food for me to pick at in her absence. Unlike before, that day I did not wait for her to feed me with her hands. I ate all by myself -the first time ever! When Mother Didi got back, she was really pleasantly surprised! She was sure that I had now become a full-fledged adolescent. She was even convinced that I could now understand her language. She talked about how people must raise their voices against things that undermine life. Maybe one day, she suggested, all the owls would join together in one loud chorus and cry out against all that destroys birds’ habitats, the forests, the trees, the creepers, the rivers, the frogs, the butterflies, the bees, the millipedes…. against all that ill-intentioned people do to satisfy their greedy egos. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is indeed a life-nourishing call. I’ll make it my own for all days to come. And when I shall hear the drummer’s drum, I’ll go back as far as owls’ memory goes, to sing ancient stories and listen to the earth’s music, cultivating hope. <br />Brother Dindin, let me also say how I no longer fear mother Didi, as I did when she first brought me to her room. We share great moments of fun, looking together in the mirror. It seems as if both of us are twins! I hold onto Didi’s fingers and then jump upwards, reaching her upper arm, then her neck, and then, finally, her head. I pull her hair and pick her nose and cheeks! She is pleased and knows that I love her and feel secure”. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Few days later baby owl informed brother Dindin about the following event.<br />“Oh brother Dindin! Listen to a most surprising story! It’s about something that happened yesterday, at sunset, when Mother Didi and I went out for our usual evening walk. When she stopped to talk to the cheekoo tree close to her cottage to know if its fruits were about to ripen, I saw a lovely little fellow owl sitting on one of its branches! In turn, it began to stare at me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It couldn’t be other than my very own twin sister; it struck me! I spoke aloud: ‘Look, Mother Didi at who’s here!’<br />Just then, I felt Mother Didi releasing her hold on me. She opened her palm, in which she had been carefully holding me, and surrendered me to the Great Unknown. I spread my little wings and flew up towards the infinite sky and perched atop a high pillar. From there, I greeted Mother Didi with the following words:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bye Mother Didi! I saw freedom in the eyes of my little sister, and now I want to be free, too! But let me tell you, Mother Didi. You have given me your love and everything else I needed to become who I now am. There is great joy in giving - so they say. You now give me away -and I know that pains you- as the Divine unfolds my wings from the palm of your hands. Know that my joy in receiving freedom is overwhelming. I now belong to the forest and the trees. Trust, Mother Didi, in our Creator’s providence and let go. Be fine and cheerful always!’”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Didi wrote this to Dindin:<br />“Dear Dindin, baby owl has left the four walls of the cottage after that amazing encounter with his sister, whom he spotted sitting on a branch of the cheekoo tree. They decided to sit together on the very same branch until they become big. Mother Owl occasionally drops by to see how they are getting along. She is very happy seeing them flying around. But she is careful too, to alert them of any possible danger. At night, the two siblings explore their surroundings and learn hunting skills. Whenever I pass their way, I look up and search till I spot them high up in the branches of the cheekoo tree, hopping from branch to branch,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some days later, when they were almost full adults, the siblings suddenly disappeared from the cheekoo tree. I know I might never see them again. But I also know that wherever they might be, they will dance to the songs of the stars and sing to the music of the forest!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I speak on behalf of Climate Justice now.<br />Many people say that Sweden is just a small country <br />and it does not matter what we do,<br />but I believe that we are never too small to make a difference.<br />And if a few children can get headlights all over the world<br /> just by not going to school then imagine <br />what we all can do together if we really wanted to.<br />But to do that we have to speak clearly <br />no matter how uncomfortable that may be.<br />You only speak of a green eternal economic growth<br />because you are too scared of being unpopular?<br />You only talk about moving forward<br />with the same bad ideas that got us into this mess,<br />even when the only sensible thing to do is pull the emergency break.<br />You are not mature enough to tell it like it is.<br />Even that burden you leave to us children. But I don’t care about being popular.<br />I care about Climate Justice and a living planet.<br />Our civilization is being sacrificed for the opportunity<br />of a very small number of people to continue<br />making enormous amounts of money.<br />Our biosphere is being sacrificed so that rich people<br />in countries like mine can live in luxury.<br />It is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of the few.<br />The year 2078, I will celebrate my 75th birthday.<br />If I have children maybe they will spend that day with me.<br />Maybe they will ask me about you.<br />Maybe they will ask why you didn’t do anything while there still was time to act.<br />You say you love your children above all else<br />and yet you are stealing their future in front of their very eyes.<br />Until you start focusing on what needs to be done,<br />rather than what is politically possible, there is no hope.<br />We cannot solve the crisis without treating it as a crisis.<br />We need to keep the fossil fuels in the ground, and we need to focus on equity.<br />And if solutions within this system are so impossible to find,<br />maybe we have to change the system itself.<br />We have not come here to beg world leaders to care.<br />You have ignored us in the past and you will ignore us again.<br />You have run out of excuses and we are running after time.<br />We have come here to let you know that change is coming,<br />whether you like it or not. The real power belongs to the people.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #001000; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">What good luck! <br />She has found his bones.<br />The skull is also in the bag<br />the bag in her hand<br />like all other bags<br />in all other trembling hands.<br />His bones, like thousands of bones<br />in the mass graveyard, <br />his skull, not like any other skull. <br />Two eyes or holes<br />with which he listened to music<br />that told his own story, <br />a nose that never knew clean air, <br />a mouth, open like a chasm <br />was not like that when he kissed her<br />there, quietly, not in this place<br />noisy with skulls and bones and dust<br />dug up with questions: <br />What does it mean to die all this death<br />in a place where the darkness plays all this silence?<br />What does it mean to meet your loved ones now<br />with all of these hollow places?<br />To give back to your mother on the occasion of death<br />a handful of bones<br />she had given to you on the occasion of birth?<br />To depart without death or birth certificates<br />because the dictator does not give receipts<br />when he takes your life?<br />The dictator has a heart, too,<br />a balloon that never pops.<br />He has a skull too, a huge one<br />not like any other skull.<br />It solved by itself a math problem<br />that multiplied the one death by millions<br />to equal homeland.<br />The dictator is the director of a great tragedy.<br />He has an audience, too,<br />an audience that claps<br />until the bones begin to rattle—<br />the bones in bags, the full bag finally in her hand,<br />unlike her disappointed neighbor<br />who has not yet found her own.</span><br />
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the bandicoot, barely pausing her weaving. Almost reading her mind, the bandicoot
pompously declaimed, “I come from a distant land, where we are so much
advanced. And because we have technology like this sickle, not only is our work
more efficient, there is also less drudgery.” The bamboo weaver, still not sure
of the bandicoot’s intentions, stretched out her hand and took the sickle. Of
course, the sickle makes life so much easier and work so much faster. Her mouth
would not be so sore at the end of the day, the basket weaver thought as she
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have it, the sickle soon broke. The basket weaver was frightened. “What now?
Will this bandicoot punish me?” she thought. The bandicoot noticed the weaver’s
predicament and immediately seized the opportunity and shouted, “You fool of an
Adivasi! I gave you the sickle to speeden up your work. Looking at the pile of
baskets by your side, you certainly have made a lot of baskets. And tell me,
you couldn’t have made all those baskets, were it not for my sickle. These
baskets are not yours, they are mine.” He kept shouting at the already
frightened basket weaver. “Give me my sickle or give me your baskets,” he
continued in the same harsh breath. The basket weaver though to herself, “I
can’t give him the sickle because it is broken, and I cannot go to his country
to get a new one. Might as well give him the baskets. I did not think that the
bandicoot would be so ruthless, after all, he was the one to offer me the
sickle, I had not gone to ask him for it.” “Give me my sickle or give me your
baskets,” the bandicoot continued to drone. Intimidated by the bandicoot’s
aggression, the basket weaver parted with her baskets. “I can always make some
more baskets and make a living. But just now let’s get rid of this problem,” she
thought. She parted with the baskets, and the bandicoot went his way with a
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means to carry earth, were carrying the soil from the fields to their work
place with their bare hands. Showing great concern to their unwarranted toil,
the bandicoot offered them the baskets. “You fools,” said the bandicoot. “Why are you carrying the soil to your
pits in your hands. Is this the way to make pots?” We have no other means to
carry the mud,” replied the potters. “Take these baskets, they will not only
greatly reduce your labour, you will be able to carry so much more mud and make
so many more pots. Just imagine the prosperity that you will be into, if you
can make pots in large quantities,” the bandicoot said. Mindful that his
earlier attempt with the basket maker had resulted in a windfall he was sure
that he could repeat the performance with the potters as well. He began dreaming
of untold possessions. Unsuspecting of the bandicoot’s real intentions, the
potters gratefully accepted them and were happy to find their labour much reduced.
Fired with new found enthusiasm, they began making pots in quantities they
never had dreamed of before and under their breath thanked the bandicoot.</span></span></div>
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too, sat looking at the potters with satisfaction, “The baskets are going to
give way soon. It is only a matter of waiting. And that I can do, because it
costs me nothing. All their toil is only going to make me rich. Let them toil
and make many more pots, I will have so much more to go away with. Fools!” After
a while, the baskets began to give way, one by one. At an opportune moment, the
bandicoot triggered an altercation with the potters. “Fools!” he said. “What
have you done! You have destroyed all my baskets. Give me my baskets or give me
your pots,” he cried in mock anger. The potters were bewildered; they had not
anticipated this. “So many thanks for thanking this bloody bandicoot for his generosity,”
they said to each other. “We can’t give him back the baskets, because only
broken bits of bamboo remain. What else can we do? Let him take the pots and go
away. At least then we will not have to listen to his screeching and have some
peace. So what? We can make pots all over again.”<br />
And thus the bandicoot came in possession of several mud pots. He whistled a
merry tune in his mind as he thought, “A thorn in my tail produced a sickle, a
sickle produced bamboo baskets, and now bamboo baskets have produced mud pots.
What good fortune I have had so far, and I wonder where Lady Luck is going to
take me next.” A sickle, pot, basket . His next halt was a village of farmers
growing vegetables in their house gardens.</span></span></div>
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hill, the bandicoot walked down to the weary farmers. “I have never seen more
foolish farmers than you,” the bandicoot said going on the offensive. “You seem
to be enjoying yourselves walking up and down the hill slopes with thimblefuls
of water, as though you had nothing else to do.” The farmers were taken aback
with the bandicoot’s audacity, but noticing the number of pots the bandicoot
was carrying, they restrained themselves. “We have nothing better than these
gourds to carry water. But if we had any better means, we would love to reduce
our toil,” the simple folks said to each other. Noticing their eagerness, the
bandicoot immediately offered the pots, “See to it that you handle to pots
carefully,” he said stretching out his hand. “If you break them you will have to
pay dearly.” The farmers took them gratefully and made one last trip with water
up the hillside rather than four. The bandicoot watched them look at the pots
with amazement. “I wonder how they managed to carve out such thin stoneware,”
said one tapping on the side of the pot. “No, it’s not stone,” said another, “It
appears to be made of mud yet remains unaffected by water. I wonder where they go this type of mud.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The bandicoot was distinctly pleased. His
appetite for profit grew, along with the growing vegetables. Each exchange was
distinctly profitable, and he had gained by large margins. He patted himself on
the back for his astute business sense. “It is good business dealing with these
simple folks. They take you so seriously that they don’t seem to notice that
all my bargains have heavily weighed in my favour.” But mud pots are mud pots,
not like the pumpkin gourds, and at the slightest bump against a stone they
broke into pieces. When a couple of pots had broken, the bandicoot in his usual
style attacked the farmers. “What do you think you are doing!?” he asked the farmers.
“You have been merrily breaking my pots, even while your vegetables are flourishing.
What do you think? I am going to let you off so easily? Give me your vegetables
or give me my pots,” he demanded. “Give me your vegetables or give me your
pots,” he repeated. The simple folks surrendered easily to the repeated
badgering of the bandicoot. They watched as the bandicoot gathered the vegetables
they had watered and grown with so much toil and made his way away from the
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younger of them wanted to stop the bandicoot, but they were restrained by the
older folks, “You should have thought of it before you took the pots. You were
so eager to get the pots and reduce your toil that the bandicoot knew he had a
bargain on his hands even before the offered the pots. You did not notice that
there was a catch somewhere. So he merrily took you for a ride. Three months hard
labour lost. But you cannot return his pots, and he had told you right from the
start that you will have to pay dearly. Well, you agreed when you took the
pots, now you cannot back out from the agreement. Pretty hard lesson, young
men. But sound wisdom doesn’t come cheap.” Counting his fortune, the bandicoot
made his way. He was pleased with himself and his business acumen. One torn in
his tail had finally become a huge quantity of vegetables, he could barely drag
along the path. “Business is very profitable,” he thought to himself. “Only you
must be enterprising and be able to convert adversity into advantage. The
journey through the forest was not a bad bargain at all.” On the hill slope
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their cattle. It was several days since they had had a meal, so when they saw
the bandicoot dragging along a whole pile of vegetables their faces lit up in
hope. The bandicoot was quick to recognize their plight. He offered them the
vegetables saying, “I am your God-sent. These will make you a long awaited
meal. Eat to your hearts’ content.” The hungry cowherds gratefully accepted the
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in his mind. Hardly had the cowherds finished the meal, when the bandicoot
looked them straight in the eye and demanded, “Give me back my brinjals or give
me some cattle.” The cowherds looked at him with surprise. “This is no good
Samaritan,” they said to each other. The bandicoot kept up his demand with a
steady drone, “Give me back my brinjals or give me some cattle.” But then we
did not ask him whether he was giving the vegetables to eat for free,” said
one. “I thought there was a catch somewhere,” said another. “But I was in two
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he was the proud owner of a whole herd of cattle. Never mind the fact that they
were a little weak from starvation. A good rain would fatten them beyond
recognition. He wondered where Lady Fortune was taking him. Leading the cattle,
the bandicoot made his way through the drought stricken villages. The rains had
just come, and the farmers were preparing to sow their seeds. He came upon a
farmer who had lost a bull in the drought and the famine that had accompanied
it, and he was forced to plough his field with his wife teamed up with a bull to
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the farmer, red with mock anger, “You bloody idiot,” he shouted in a burst of
feigned anger. “You bloody idiot, you have teamed your wife with the bull to pull
the plough. Do you have any sense left or have your brains evaporated with the
drought?” The farmer was taken aback. “Who is this fool?” he muttered under his
breath. But keeping his irritation under control, he turned to the bandicoot and
said, “You must be a stranger to these parts, friend. But this is the first
good rains that we are experiencing after three years of parched land and dry
throats. I lost three of my bulls in the drought. Not that it was me alone, but
most of us lost our cattle. Some don’t even have any cattle at all to plough
their lands.” But the bandicoot appeared unforgiving. “This is no excuse to
treat your wife as a beast of burden. I cannot tolerate this. A woman is to
take care of the home and hearth, and not to be tied to the plough.” The
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gratefully accepted the animal and continued to plough his field. The wife,
freed from the yoke, sowed the seed after him. All seemed well till the bull
still weak from the drought died. The bandicoot was in his element once again.
“You fool! Who told you to kill my bull! I cannot forgive you for causing me such
great harm. Give me the bull or give me your wife!” cried the bandicoot with a
ferocity that took the farmer by storm. And without a moment’s delay, he walked
off with the woman leaving behind a shocked husband. So the bandicoot, who first approached the woman to help him remove
the thorn from his tail, finally walked away with the Adivasi woman as the
result of his exploits. Who is the bandicoot”? the children ask the story
teller. “You need not go far to find the answer, children,” the storyteller says
in reply. “The bandicoot is the one who robbed us of our lands, our livelihood,
our crops, our cattle, our mothers and our futures.”</span></span><br />
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history can also be fascinating. This parable is history. For the uninitiated,
the parable makes little sense though it stimulates the reader to try and
uncover the hidden meaning. Without any link to history of the area or the
history of the people who lived there, the parable is devoid of any cogent story.
To the initiated and the listener engaged with the narrator, the parable covers
close to 15 decades of brutality from the advent of colonial rule in 1820 to
two decades post the transfer of power from the colonials to the locals that
has its parallels in the history of indigenous peoples across the globe. Thane
district and its indigenous people, where the parable took root, was ceded in
1818 to the British as part of the dowry of a Portuguese prince to an English dame.
Living in the forested hills, the Warlis were feared by the plainsmen for their
raids on their villages. In the name of establishing law and order, for over
three decades, British soldiers ravaged the hilltop villages and herded the
tribal residents to the fringes of the forest and brutally pushed them from a
hunting and food gathering existence into a settled agriculture. Alienable land
titles, on payment of rent in cash, conferred on the names of the men in the
middle of the 19th century, opened the area to outside communities who quickly
alienated lands, labour and livelihoods, pushing the proud forest people into
rack renting and inhuman bondage. The inhuman conditions prompted the Warlis to
be part of a decade long militant struggle to liberate themselves and their
womenfolk from the brutal clutches of money-lenders turned landlords, close to
a century later. Known across the country as the “Warli Uprising”, the struggle
liberated the Adivasi people from debt slavery and sex bondage that became harsher
and more brutal with each passing decade. Engaging with the narrator of the
parable, takes the inquiring listener to understand their history of how the
trading community saw opportunity in adversity, much like the bandicoot after a
bit of is tail broke off in the efforts to maneuver the thorn wedged in the
tail The bandicoot began with the alienation of the means of production - to
the alienation of labour - to the alienation of 160 livelihoods - to the
alienation of access to means of survival – to the final alienation of the body
of the labourer; a complex economic history of crude appropriation spread over
then decades, in a parable that only the seekers of the truth can unravel.</span></span><br />
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story is taken from the book, ‘Wisdom from the Wilderness’, which is a
collection of stories narrated and illustrated by the Warli Adivasis of Thane
District in Maharashtra. These stories have been collected, translated and
collated by Pradip Prabhu, Shiraz Bulsara and Kashtakan Sanghatna. With their
approval, Francoise has creatively interpreted this narration in her own unique
way through her iconic dolls. Pradip Prabhu: an advocate, founder-member of
Kashtakari Sanghatana, an organisation of poor, landless and marginal adivasi
(tribal) people from north Maharashtra. Pradip has been working with tribal
community organisations for over 30 years now and has been a Specialist Member
on tribal and land related issues in several official committees set up by the
Planning Commission and other institutions. He is also National Convenor,
Campaign for Survival and Dignity and Chairperson for the committee on convergence
in MGNREGS.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I struggle removing<br />temptation and sorrow<br />for a better tomorrow. <br />Life is confusing.<br />I'm tired of losing<br />in hopes that I'll find<br />some peace in my mind.<br />Distorted perception,<br />thoughts of deception,<br />memories that are haunting<br />of the drug I'm still wanting.<br />Complex situations,<br />illogical insinuations.<br />Consumed by fear <br />from the voices I hear,<br />telling me to quit fighting.<br />I get tired of re-lighting<br />the flame of my soul,<br />relocating a goal,<br />for the strength to carry out,<br />and remove my self-doubt, <br />to beat my addiction, <br />and inner confliction.<br />Let go of my shame,<br />break free from this pain. <br />Chainless and free, <br />for the chance to see <br />life without depression,<br />feelings without suppression,<br />If it's over too easily,<br />that'll just tease me.<br />Plotting an attack<br />on getting you back<br />for all of this time <br />you controlled my mind.<br />Following through,<br />I'll say then I'll do, <br />to leave you behind<br />and never rewind<br />to suicidal denial, <br />‘cause now I can smile<br />in knowing I'm free, <br />‘cause I've finally found me</span></div>
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Francoise Bosteelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298634149588872386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6095228207840793435.post-28229018867776686672011-10-23T12:13:00.000+05:302017-11-23T12:30:25.920+05:30The Lost Innocence<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Snatching away her innocence, her dreams<br />The dolls, those toys<br />The tamarind and candies,<br />The corners where she hid,<br />Those farms, those shanties;<br />With a halt to her childhood<br />Some tears and a hiccup,<br />She asks her mother-<br />“When did I grow up?”<br />Getting married to a stranger<br />No friends, no allies<br />The symbols of wedlock<br />Vermilion and gold;<br />But the reason for this sin<br />Remains untold.<br />Abandoning her childhood in a palanquin<br />With an ending so abrupt<br />The innocent little bride wonders-<br />“When did I grow up?”</span></div>
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The way a tomato plant labors under noonday sun,<br />her fruit ripening in slow motion.<br />The flower’s afterbloom becomes a burden,<br />burgeoning into an expanse of wild color<br />that is motley green until she molts,<br />until she transforms, until she learns to bleed,<br />red, red, red, a color, vivid as a sunset,<br />but so much sweeter.</div>
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The tomato is a gift.</div>
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When a tomato bursts between teeth and tongue,<br />surely some prayer makes peace there.<br />It is no accident that salivation<br />looks so much like salvation,<br />the garden not far from God.<br />My taste buds respond, enliven, become;<br />they shout something wordless<br />yet profound and I no longer know<br />where the tomato ends and I begin.</div>
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Somehow I become the plant that<br />produced the fruit, become the flower,<br />still yellow in noonday heat,<br />become the sprouting bit of hope,<br />become the seed that began it all,<br />become even before that,<br />to the very soil that offered herself to be garden<br />after a millennia of being free earth.</div>
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Perhaps the tomato is a grave,<br />a reckoning, the addition and subtraction<br />between which life navigates.<br />She is algebra that happens within my body,<br />a native chemistry that lingers, that tells me I am satisfied,<br />full of sunshine and heat and time<br />the way a tomato plant labors under noonday sun,<br />her fruit ripening in slow motion.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She plays on a skateboard<br />stolen from her brother;<br />their mother would never approve of this,<br />but, for now, she skates in secret,<br />the possibility of breaking but not<br />too tantalizing to let go of<br />for a girl of glass and clay.</span><br />
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too had a dream. Her dolls began to speak:</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;"> they speak of the
people’s everyday lives; they speak from the margins; they offer their pain,
their poverty but also their celebration, their hope; her dolls speak of the
many faces of violence; of exclusion; of hunger; of homelessness. There is a
rage there, but it is offered gently, evocatively, inviting the viewer to
think, to feel, to cross the lines, to break new ground; to leave the straight
unilinear path of what is dominant and to search in the forest for old wisdoms,
ancient paths, forgotten knowledges, to find new ways of survival, to listen
differently; to hear the cries for justice. A<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nother world must be possible</i>!” ~ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Corinne Kumar</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;">“The dolls are my language, visible
symbols woven into the context of everyday life of everyday people. They
present the lives of ordinary people of India…”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“…They tell us that ordinary people are
still resourceful and have vitality, still struggle for life and dignity, still
hold on values of sharing and compassion. They tell us about the beauty and
love that throbs beneath their lives of endless struggle for survival.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The joy of life pulsates within their wounds
and tears”.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">~ Francoise</i></span></div>
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me to bring out an updated second edition of the book ‘Through the Needle’s
Eye’. The task was challenging because all the pictures taken on slides had to
be re-taken on digital camera. I took the opportunity to include the very
latest creations on burning issues not only of India but of the world at large.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They have just come into this world<br />And they have so many questions to ask like:<br />Why should guavas be always </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I come from a beautiful place<br />Where girls cannot go to school.<br />There you are told what to believe<br />And even young boys must grow beards. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I come from a great old forest.<br />I think it is now a field,<br />And the people I once knew<br />Are not there now. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We can all be refugees,<br />Nobody is safe.<br />All it takes is a mad leader<br />Or no rain to bring forth food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We can all be refugees.<br />We can all be told to go.<br />We can be hated by someone<br />For being someone. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I come from a beautiful place<br />Where the valley floods each year,<br />And each year the hurricane tells us<br />That we must keep moving on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I come from an ancient place.<br />All my family were born there<br />And I would like to go there<br />But I really want to live. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I come from a sunny, sandy place<br />Where tourists go to darken skin<br />And dealers like to sell guns there.<br />I just can't tell you what's the price. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am told I have no country now.<br />I am told I am a lie.<br />I am told that modern history books<br />May forget my name. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We can all be refugees.<br />Sometimes it only takes a day.<br />Sometimes it only takes a handshake<br />Or a paper that is signed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We all came as refugees,<br />Nobody simply just appeared.<br />Nobody's here without a struggle,<br />And why should we live in fear<br />Of the weather or the troubles?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No one could take it, no one could stomach it,<br />no one skin would be tough enough;<br />the go home blacks, refugees, <br />dirty immigrants, asylum seekers,<br />sucking our country dry, niggers with their hands out,<br />they smell strange, savage, messed up their country<br />and now they want to mess ours up.<br />How do the words the dirty looks roll off your backs<br />maybe because the blow is softer than a limb torn off,<br />or the words are more tender than fourteen men between your legs<br />or the insults are easier to swallow<br />than rubble, than bone, than your child body in pieces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I want to go home, but home is the mouth of a shark.<br />Home is the barrel of the gun and no one would leave home<br />unless home chased you to the shore,<br />unless home told you to quicken your legs,<br />leave your clothes behind, crawl through the desert,<br />wade through the oceans, drown, save, <br />be hungry, beg, forget pride; <br />your survival is more important.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Together we say NO to the rage and hate of a bigot.<br />Our wholeness is the measure of our love and care,<br />because we are friends.<br />We say NO to the massive darkness and night.<br />Our Spirit keeps leaping for dignity and life,<br />for we dwell in tomorrow’s dream of the Earth’s bounty of life,<br />because we are friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Friends, I too have a history;<br />My history is of endless resistance.<br />Words and assumptions keep me in bondage.<br />I am not a terrorist!<br />When shall I get freed from weeping in the corner of my shed?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The woman silently came closer to me and whispered:<br />The charges against you are vanity, bigotry and vicious hate.<br />Your chains will be broken.<br />That day my dream rose high and I thought my evil days are over.<br />Not only mine but of so many of my kind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Being a cartoonist and illustrator myself, I understand the power of visuals and characters. But unlike my hand-drawn characters, where I have the luxury of using facial features and action poses to convey feelings and emotions, your dolls literally speak volumes without as much as batting an eyelid or furrowing a brow. All the drama and action are being played, within the viewer’s own imagination as uniquely personalised stories. And this is where the real magic and true power of the dolls lie! They are able to create stories that touch viewers at many levels. And their very limitations in terms of expressions or limited body poses suddenly open up newer vistas in storytelling, pushing the viewer to scale new heights of their imagination, while re-living, re-telling, re-creating, re-imagining Life’s realities. They become a tool, a medium, for an experience of catharsis within oneself, exorcising long-suppressed negative emotions from within, leading one to a process of cleansing and self-purification and help bring about a holistic awareness of Life in all it’s intricate complexities and joyful creative possibilities!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I believe a person’s passionately creative work in this world is an extension and expression of their rich inner life and oneness with the Divine. And you prove, by your very special and sacred work, that this is the way forward for humanity. In these troubled times of ours, everyone is searching for ways to go within and find, not just answers, but also shape for themselves a creative, holistic life that is a life of joyful giving and peaceful communion with others. This, I believe, is an innate longing in each human being. And when one experiences your life’s work, vision and mission through your dolls, one comes away with hope that it is, indeed, possible, to create and live a life of divinely inspired creativity and joyful service, even amidst our daily troubles and injustices we see around us. Your iconic dolls truly speak, not just on your behalf, but for each human being and each human longing to be whole once again, and to feel for humanity and be one with humanity.</span></div>
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read the patterns of the skies, </div>
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and danced under the friendly sun.</div>
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All of nature spoke to her,</div>
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and she spoke back to them,</div>
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sharing deep secrets,</div>
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the kind, only best friends do.</div>
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“Kili!”, her winged friends would call.</div>
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“Enda, Enda… What? What?” </div>
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She would coo back with joy, </div>
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tipping her head like them,</div>
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rushing inside for tiny grains of rice,</div>
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to feed her friends hidden in the trees.</div>
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Little Kili lived in a magical world, that I would envy, </div>
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far removed the world I lived in then.</div>
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Speaking a language which she and nature understood,</div>
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that adults like me did not.</div>
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Yesterday, I came by a little chariot,</div>
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Kili had left it behind, forgotten after play.</div>
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Laden with small stones, leaves, tiny flowers</div>
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and wood chips.</div>
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Weathered by the sun and the rain. </div>
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It stood there,</div>
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reminding me of the wonderful patterns </div>
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on the ground she would create in play.</div>
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My little Kili would have grown up by now,</div>
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having flown far away, leaving me behind. </div>
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How many years has it been? Four...five … or more? </div>
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Has she forgotten this precious world she has left behind?</div>
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Were they a gift from her to me to come by,</div>
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to remind me of how she used to be? </div>
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Or, were they a magical remnant, </div>
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a secret whisper,</div>
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to bring back the little girl that lives within me alive.</div>
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~ Srividya Srinivasan</div>
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the United Nations Resolution 1325 vote in 2000, every two years a group of
deserving women - working alone or within an organization - involved for peace
in conflict and war zones, women struggling for nonviolence and peace building,
women raising their voices in peace negotiations are being honoured with the
title: ‘Homage to Women of Peace’. This honor celebration took place in the
Belgian Senate on the 15<sup>th</sup> December 2016. This homage has also been
conferred on me as a ‘Woman of Peace’. I share this homage with numerous people
and friends who have supported the Iconic Dolls ministry in so many ways. On
the 8<sup>th</sup> of March 2017, the Women of Peace of year 2012, 2014 and
2016 have been received at the Brussels’ Royal Palace by the Belgian Queen and
King. Being in India, I requested my niece to represent me at the two very
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<br />Francoise Bosteelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298634149588872386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6095228207840793435.post-82369002253397283332011-05-12T17:38:00.000+05:302017-11-23T12:44:52.522+05:30Sr Maryta Laumann SSpS - Fu Jen Catholic University, China<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Over the last few days, since your dolls visited Fu Jen Catholic University, they –and you through them- have had a lot to say to us, both students and teachers alike. Although we had only four days to display them, it was worth all the effort spent. No one, who took the time to really look and listen went away unmoved. Although your dolls don’t speak Chinese, they got their message across, not withstanding barriers of language and culture, touching the hearts of young and old, students and teachers, women and men, well-to-do and those less fortunate.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I would like to thank you especially for the time you gave to my class of graduate students the first afternoon after they had seen the display. Their questions, and even their tears, told me how powerful the language of your dolls is, raising deep questions ranging from the lot of the poor, as you know them, to globalization, from consumerism to social responsibility, from power politics to ecological concerns, from movements and solidarity in the spirit of hope, believing that a better world is possible. You can be sure your dolls will continue to speak to them and myself in my ‘Design and Culture’ class, in my ‘Globalization and Development’ seminar, and in my ‘Contemporary Issues’ class. The same I think is true of a number of other teachers, who brought their students to see the display and to ask you questions on the spot. Your dolls are excellent question-raisers; their soft, gentle approach is very appropriate, inviting, indeed attractive way of reaching the young generation of today, who are little inclined to listen to indoctrination.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Dear Francoise, may be what I want to say is, that I wish you would have more chances to enter the universities and colleges, where teachers can bring their students. Such exposures move their hearts, and once their hearts are moved and open, it is rather easy for us teachers to deepen the message, that you (and we as well) hope to get across to them, independent of the subject we teach. Therefore I also wish to thank you for allowing us to take some photos and even a video. Through them, your book and poems, the dolls will continue to be excellent ‘teaching assistants’ to me and others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Considering the experience of the exhibition, I believe your personal presence makes difference, because after having encountered the dolls, people want to know who breathed the soul into these creatures, whose life are they breathing and sharing? We can do some translation but we cannot really substitute you. Your living witness tells it all, and people come to realize what a difference one single person can make, and what a difference we can make together, if we join hands in solidarity to make this world a better place to live in. Don’t you think that is the ‘good news’ of hope most needed in our world today? That is also why in our Department I have created the slogan: ‘Together we can make it!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">In my community we discuss a lot of so-called ‘new ministries’, finding ways and means to be more effective in our missionary involvements in a rapidly changing world. Led by <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Providence</st1:place></st1:city>, you have found a very creative, unique, personally engaging, and very powerful ‘new ministry’. May God give you more and more opportunities to speak His and your message through the life of the poor, neglected and abused through the down-to reality expressions of your dolls, appealing to the conscience of modern humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Finally, I wish to thank you for spending time with <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Yuma</st1:place></st1:city> last night. Of all those who came, I wanted her (more than anyone else) to see the dolls. After she looked at them for one and a half hours all alone last night, she talked to me about her impression. She said that she just returned from a National Conference entitled: ‘Museum Development and Taiwan Aborigines’. As the Conference proceeded, the Aborigines participants felt increasingly uncomfortable, because they experienced themselves being treated as ‘research objects’ by scholars of anthropology, and as mere means by which to improve local museums, rather than as having a dignity of their own, a right to their own ideas, lifestyle and plans for development. While talking and listening to your dolls, Yuma felt keenly that here was someone at work, who respected the life of those represented by them, gave them a voice of their own, allowed the poor, the neglected and maltreated to teach powerful lessons of reflection to the learned of the 21<sup>st</sup> century. Therefore, I was so glad when you took time late last night, though your were very tired, to allow her to share with you feelings and frustration in her own work as an Aborigines among her own tribal people, and you shared yours with her. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">She appeared so much brighter and lighter, when she left late at night than when she arrived.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Dear Francoise, I did not want to write so much in the guestbook at the exhibition desk. Yet, as a sign of gratitude and appreciation, please accept these lines for your encouragement and comfort in all your labour of love fidelity to the mission entrusted to you. I shall remember you with joy and thanksgiving in my prayers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Francoise Bosteelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298634149588872386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6095228207840793435.post-2317452191789380152011-04-12T18:37:00.000+05:302017-11-23T12:45:24.556+05:30Bobby Vadakkal, ofm - Secretary of Formation & Studies South Asia Oceania Conference of OFM Provinces<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I have been struck by the power of the dolls depicting the daily life stories of the ordinary people in the villages and towns of India. It has drawn those who viewed the exhibition to relate to the situations depicted and to retell their own stories as it happened twice here in Dharmodaya Seva Ashram, Bellary, Karnataka (on July 2009 during a retreat and on January 2010 during the Diamond Jubilee celebration of the diocese). Shobith a hindu boy of 14 from Siruguppa who had run away twice from home, and Shyam another young man from hindu background from Manvi who had a conflict with his family to talk about their lives and take help in counseling to find peace and reconciliation. The most touching part of our experience was that both these youth volunteered to narrate stories of the dolls to visitors! There were women who went and called their neighbours to come and look at the exhibits. Mr. Jayanth, a Jain has requested that Sr. Francoise should hold the exhibition next time in his rich locality to make them sensitive to the social reality. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I was also privileged to have Sr. Francoise exhibit her dolls as part of a liturgy at the Asian Franciscan Formators’ training program at Bangalore in Jan 2009 opening the minds and hearts of all to a new way of worshipping recalling the spirit in which Francis made the first crib. The Justice & Peace seminar, which I conducted at Franciscan Institute of Spirituality, Bangalore, is remembered for the integrative liturgy where Sr. Francoise led us to pray holding in our hearts the ignored and broken people whose resilience and ability to find beauty and goodness ! The last platform where we collaborated was at the International workshop of Interplay at Carmalaram, Bangalore where Sr. Francoise inspired through her meditation with dolls two other artists to share their glimpses of truth and beauty and moved the hearts of the 45 participants who considered it as a sublime confluence of prayers surging out of life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While being in the NBCLC during the previous three years you have been engaging in a creative evangelization through your ‘dolls’ which are the icons and visuals of your God experience through the stories of the poor people of India. That’s why you used to get profound appreciation from the Church as well as the public whenever and wherever you conducted Doll exhibitions through the length and breadth of India. I have seen long features of your exhibitions in our renowned national News Papers like Hindu, Times of India, Deccan Herald, Deepika etc. No need of stating how much the participants of the different courses of the NBCLC are inspired and challenged by your classes and meditations with the help of your ‘mute’ but eloquent Dolls. The emotions, the intensity, flair and flow of the themes that are demonstrated touch the hearts and minds of the people and lead them to think and articulate their faith along with the sufferings of the people on the margins. The Biblical themes that are presented through your exquisite dolls become poignant and often embody silent prophetic critique; such exercises evoke radical changes in our consciousness, that will only be enduring and endearing in the long run.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You have to continue your ministry as long your health supports you. The NBCLC had been helpful to do your ministry. But the NBCLC space has had its innate limitations. Now you have to engage your ministry through some secular agencies or organizations like Visthar which are committed to social justice and liberation. Then you get better exposure to work for the poor and the marginalized. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Continue your work and whatever help you want me I am ready to render. I thank and appreciate your contribution in the recent conference of Indian Theological Association. Please continue to partake in it. It will give you more theological insights to your ministry. Let yours Dolls dole out the Gospel of Life especially to the less fortunate of our society.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Thank you for taking part in the Jesuit Artists Workshop III at Sameeksha at the beginning of this month. Your presence made a significant contribution to the workshop, not only from the perspective of another medium, but also from the perspective of a woman religious very sensitive to the social issues that women in India face daily. Of course, I am also very thankful that you loaned me one of your dolls for my still-life painting. The intense colors of the cloth and the elegant angles of the arms of the woman made the doll a fitting subject for a painting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I probably should not be surprised that artists in India –among whom I certainly hope you number yourself – have such a strong social sense. Certainly Christian artists express the Lord’s concern for the downtrodden and forgotten that comes out so clearly in the Gospel. I see your work as a continuation of the Gospels, a kind of parable in cloth that allows people to see the characters they know from their lives but probably don’t want to consider.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I found it interesting that the reporters who came to the exhibition on the final day of the workshop instinctively gravitated towards your dolls. With all the wealth of painted images on display, the small dolls reached out and grabbed their attention. That is the power of your art work, a power that should not be underestimated. I hope that you can continue with the Gospel stories project and that your creativity will continue to find ways to cut through the cultural clutter that keeps people blind to the suffering and injustice in their midst. And I hope that you continue to collect the stories that women share after they have seen themselves in your dolls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Our work as artists can seem an indirect way to serve the Gospel, yet it has the potential to be the most powerful evangelical voice. In a country in which Christians form such a small minority, the simple eloquence of your creations can bridge the gaps between us and invite people to find a common ground where they can discover God. That is a very important mission which I hope you can continue. Your community should be proud of your contribution as a religious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Francoise Bosteelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298634149588872386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6095228207840793435.post-34503723413615786352011-04-12T18:24:00.000+05:302017-11-23T12:47:26.711+05:30Rappai Poothokaren sj - St Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad, India<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Greetings from Gurjarvani. I was happy to have you at the third Jesuit Artist’s Workshop, at Sameeksha, Kalady. Thank you. Your presence and work contributed a different, artistic and feminine presence to the workshop. As I have told you earlier, your dolls really speak, and speak very loud and clear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">You have discovered a way of proclaiming the Good News that is very artistic, original and effective. Your two exhibitions in Gujarat were unique, and their impact great. Your simple, but beautiful dolls speak to the young and old about the beauty and greatness of lives of ordinary people, especially women. The poor of this earth, who belong to the Kingdom of God, speak to the viewers through your dolls. As your dolls are small and cute, their message about their struggle and suffering, and their caring and sharing their tenacity and hope do not evoke resistance in the viewers. They call for a change in the viewer’s attitude towards the poor. They challenge the viewer to question his/her assumptions, attitudes and middle-class prejudices. They inspire people to act, act for change –in themselves, in their families and in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Your book, with the poems, inspires. I understand that you are going to publish another book. I look forward to reading it, and seeing the new set of dolls. You told me once that you have a plan to publish a book of dolls on the Gospel. That would indeed be a great way of proclaiming the Good News of Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">While your books are good, the impact of the exhibitions is much greater. Your dolls speak directly to the viewer. The dolls and the viewers interact, and the dialogue is transforming. I strongly recommend that you hold as many exhibitions as you can. Please do not turn down any invitation to hold exhibitions anywhere in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">You know Francoise earlier foreign missionaries have been accused of highlighting our poverty abroad to raise funds. Good intentions apart, often it was true that such a presentation projected a distorted image of India, and ‘used’ the povery of the poor. But your dolls, many of them about the life of the poor, give a beautiful message to the world, especially to the consumerist, developed world, increasingly losing the values of humanity and compassion. The Beatitudes of Jesus –blessed are the poor…., blessed are….blessed are…. –are true! The poor, the exploited, the marginalized live in hope, trusting in God, sharing and caring for each other. They do not have material wealth, but have a spiritual depth that the world is very much in need of.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Francoise, may your tribe increase! May your dolls reach more and more people, and speak to their heart. Let those who cannot see your dolls ‘alive’ see them in your books.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Francoise Bosteelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298634149588872386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6095228207840793435.post-79828807176005537492011-04-12T18:21:00.000+05:302017-11-23T12:47:51.120+05:30Samuel Rayan sj - Vidyajyoti Theology College, Delhi, India<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dear Francoise,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Your dolls are metaphors ; a symbolic language expressing and communicating some basic messages of the Gospel and some warm concern for the human person, especially for the poor. Your work is spirituality and theology in a new idiom. It is this insight into your work that persuaded me to write a foreword to your book ‘The Dolls Speak’, and to persuade EATWOT to invite you to the Philippines to come and exhibit your work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I see the work of the Spirit in the history of your dolls:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is that not also suggested powerfully by the spontaneous response of EATWOT theologians, men and women from many parts of the world, who commissioned the publishing of the Dolls-pictures, accompanied with reflections, stories, prayers, which many of them promised to provide?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is not the spiritual, theological, evangelical and human impact of the Dolls indicated by the response of the public to their exhibitions in Bangalore, Delhi, Bombay, Taiwan, Bolivia, by reports in the media, and invitations from schools, colleges and religious groups?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And what is the message of the fact that the first edition of the book has been sold out despite the high price of the volume and a second edition has become necessary?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is not the universal appeal of your work a word from the Lord telling you to be ready for a world-wide apostolate if invitations come from far and near?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Your special charism and talent may be the sign of a special apostolic call which the rest of us are bond to recognize and respect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dear Francoise, I keep praying for you and your community that all of you - all of us - may discern the voice of the Spirit and follow Her lead courageously, joyfully, lovingly. </span></div>
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