Information Wrap - Dhauli

ASIA

A Cargo of Questions 1992

India

DHAULI

In 260 BCE Ashoka, the great Indian emperor, defeated Kalinga, but the bloody battle left such a bitter taste with Ashoka that he converted to Buddhism. The horrors he experienced in war are recorded in 13 inscriptions carved in a rock at the base of Dhauli hill.

In October 1956 the recommendations of the States Reorganisation Committee had been implemented. India had been divided into 14 States and 6 centrally administered territories according to the distribution of vernacular language.

Language identifying state or territory of administration, for the convenience of central authority and its bureaucracy?

This is the old ideal of the nation state. Homogenous and organisable?

What happened in Europe in the 16C to the 19C repeats itself in 20C India.

Also

"But the boundaries of these states were not formed by rivers or mountains, or any natural feature or terrain: they were instead, walls of words."

MIDNIGHT"S CHILDREN, Salman Rushdie.

 

Human values, human rights, animal rights, war and peace

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Buddhism? Hinduism? Islamism? Christianity? Sectarianism or Universalism? Humanism? World peace?

 

 

 

 

A Cargo of Questions 2017

 

The LODE project of 1992 and the Re:LODE project of 2017 is about generating questions that begin with places along the LODE-Line.

 

 

To every place there belongs a story . . .

To every story there belongs another . . .

 

Is capitalism historically inseparable from colonialism?

 

 

Betel leaf farming versus steel plant?

Accumulation by dispossession? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

The monster in the mirror? A culture of terrorism?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Does capitalism function through the expansion of frontiers?

 

Is disinvestment of India's state assets a form of privatisation?

Disinvestment is all about increased efficiency - but don't you believe them

What were the origins of India’s disinvestment policy?  

To every place there belongs a story . . .

From the Mahabharata through to everyday life, and from the Gita to Duck Soup

This blog-post is a matrix that originates first in the context of an artistic activity that relates to this place, Dhauli, and then connections multiply through processes of association, suggesting links, articulations and juxtapositions that the contemporary information wrap affords us, in a particular and contemporary type of consciousness, where the "loop" or "ricorso" helps the zig zagging necessary to see what is going on.

That's just the way it is . . . but don't you believe them . . .