French Impressionist Masters at Göteborg Museum

Auguste Renoir - Garden - 1877


 Edgar Degas - Study for Dressed Ballet Girl - 1879


Alfred Sisley - The Seine near  Saint-Cloud


Paul Gauguin - Still Life - 1877
 

Camille Pissaro - Landscape Bazincourt - 1881


Vincent Van Gogh - Olive Grove - Saint Remy.


Claude Monet - Willows in Haze, Gaverny - 1886


Claude Monet - Water Lillies - 1907


Claude Monet - Village Street - 1879
 
 
Paul Cezanne  - Avenue - 1880-82
 

Camille Corot - Forest Path - 1823


Henri Rousseau - Landscape with Water Mill 1879

Old Masters Paintings at Göteborg Museum - 1

Erik Waren Skieold - On the Plain - 1883
















Hugo  Birger - Lunch During La Feria on Granada 1882


 


Richard Bergh



Richard Bergh

 

Anders Zorn
  

Jean Francois Rafaelli


JF Willumsun


Johan Krouthen


Carl Skanberg
 

Carl Fredrick Hill
 

Nils Kreuger
 

Edvard Munch


Bjorn Algrehensonn


Eugene Jansson

 

Per Ekstrom

 

Jean Metzinger

Krishna Joo Razdan - Band Kornas Bhi Bashe Zagatuk Valu Vashe

बनद  कॅरनस बॅु बाशे जगतुचि वालु वाशे

म्वकलै चाञि आशे शिव नाथुॅ अविनाशे

I will die in waiting for you, O Indestructible Shiva

भाव सु्ॅत्यन बुॅ यिमॅयो हरुॅ म्वखुॅ वॅन्य दिमुॅ्यो

मोह गटि हुँदि गाशे शिव नाथुॅ अविनाशे

I come filled with your love, Lord show me your face

You are light in the pitch darkness of worldly delusion, O Indestructible Shiva

केैलासुॅ कव्हुॅ छ़ारथ धारुॅनायि ध्यानुॅ धारथ

सत च्यथ आकाशे शिव नाथुॅ अविनाशे

I search for you on the Kailash mountain, I meditate on you all the time,

With heart open like sky, O Indestructible Shiva

तार दिम मुह वावस मायायि दॅर्यायवस

कड दव्ख नावि पाशे शिव नाथुॅ अविनाशे

Save me from the winds of delusion, take me across this illusory existence

Get me out of the unending sorrow, O indestructible Shiva!

संसारुॅ के  सरुॅ बो हरुॅ नावॅु सुॅत्य तरॅु  बो

कास दव्ख च्यथ प्रकाशे  शिव नाथुॅ अविनाशे

This river of existence, I can only cross chanting the name of Hara

Take away my sorrow, bring light to my  heart, O Indestructible Shiva!

ज़पुॅ शबनमॅ धारे पपि  ब्योल तपुॅ वारे

कांह फोॅल गछ़ि नुॅ हाशे शिव नाथुॅ अविनाशे

Engulfed with the dew drops of Japa, The seed ripens in the garden of Tapas.

No crumb get wasted, O Indestructible Shiva!

शंभू नाथॅ साधै आवाहॅुन नादै

साञॅु बोज़ शुर्य बाशे शिव नाथुॅ अविनाशे

Mediating on Lord Shambu, I call him aloud,

Please hear our child talk, O indestructible Shiva!

कृष्णस आंफ चाॅनी बखशुस पाप प्राॅनी

शापन कर तुॅ नाशे शिव नाथुॅ अविनाशे

O Krishna, I rely on you only, forgive me my sins,

Destroy my curse, O indestructible Shiva!

- कृष्ण जू राज़दान

- Krishna Joo Razdan

JNU : freedom too has limits

Nation Building is as much a project of forcing nationalism down the throat of people, as it is of institution building. Throughout history promoting "nationhood", which is ultimately just an idea, has always required both conviction and coercion . Some may have moral qualms about using force and there are limits to its usefulness, but at end of day it is a utilitarian philosophy, often leading to greatest good for the greatest number. "Peace of Empire" is often a phrase to describe phases in human history when large nation states kept together both by force and consensus have held sway of large and disparate geographical areas, ensuring peace, and making possible both cultural and material progress. Force by itself can't keep countries together but there is no denying that it has always had a part to play.

As to the decision of when to use force, it is true that a certain threshold needs to be crossed before it is used. This gives enough freedom to the society so that new ideas can ferment, proliferate and challenge the existing status-quo and also lets political and ideological margins of society let off steam. We could limit the use of machinery of the state leviathan only to instances when a imminent threat to the nation is forseen. Slogans and speeches, whatever their nature, may seem comparatively benign, and often are. But aggressive sloganeering is also many times a precursor and call to arms of insurgents ultimately intent on violence. Kashmir insurgency of 90s started with street slogans of bringing in Nizam-e-Mustafa, followed by ethnic cleansing of KPs, following with bloodshed lasting more than 20 years and bringing harm and misery to all sections of society.  In the United Kingdom, the government long allowed preaching of extremism in the name of freedom of speech and multiculturalism which consequently lead to much social upheaval, discontent, and finally and inevitably violence against the state and its people. The ill-effects of these "freedoms" are only now realized and the Cameron government has recently reversed them after many decades of folly. 

You can't allow "freedoms" which ultimately lead to subversion of democracy and finally curtailment of the said "freedoms" themselves. Whether such threshold was reached in JNU or not is debatable. I myself think that it probably had not. And police machinery could be kept out with the university authorities taking adequate disciplinary action. Still there is a historical context with JNU and this is not just a one-off instance. See here and here,. Ultimately it is neither acceptable to charter of a the national university, nor to the most of the tax-payers who fund the university, that the university becomes a breeding ground for people intent on destruction of their nation and their future.

While we could debate on whether the current course of action was appropriate to the challenge or not, I certainly don't think people defending or only mildly condemning those students as "misguided" are either appreciating their own extant freedoms or doing service to well-being of their countrymen.