V.S Naipaul is a colossus and Girish Karnad is a trifle

Girish Canard created a raucous in an award giving ceremony in Mumbai a day before yesterday that was organized to felicitate one of the greatest littérateurs of our time Sir V.S Naipaul the Nobel Prize winner for literature. It is utterly disgraceful for us that a man perhaps hired by some vested interests has tried to insult a much respected worldwide acclaimed foreign writer of Indian lineage on Indian soil.

Karnad is critical of the narration "the Taj Mahal conjured for him the toil, sweat and blood that had gone into this vain construction, a monument to death and the memory of a tyrant". This is a historical fact attested to by many historians. The construction had gone for more than two decades at a massive cost. It was the saga of exploitation and ruthlessness to celebrate perverted notion of love by a cruel king. The masons’ hands were chopped off in order to prevent them from erecting another mansion of similar grandeur.   While the physical form of the mausoleum is a beautiful piece of architecture; the intrinsic spirit within is that of tears, blood, helplessness and forced labor of the unfortunate subjects of an alien ruler.

Karnad’s lack of knowledge or may be his selective amnesia of the historical accounts made by a number of the English or Indian historians  about the all-out, united and resolute Muslim attacks on the Vijay Nagar empire culminated into its ruination, is an stark reality.   Does he know what Malik Kafur did even much before?

Karnad has further charged Naipaul with being anti Muslim for his statement that "the construction of a mosque by the first mogul emperor  at Ayodhya was an act of hubris". It is again a archeological truth that Ayodhya was a pre-historic religious site whereas the Islam came into being in the sixth century A.D. Obviously Naipaul has been quite correct. Moreover Naipaul’s entire family except him is Muslim even his adopted children are Muslims. Can we find such a religiously tolerant man as Naipaul  in India or outside?

Karnad has through his histrionics catapulted himself in media glare by abusing a person of world fame. I hope he is rewarded by the dispensation of the day at least with Bharat Ratna for which he did all this consciously.

Perhaps some persons have empathy with the alien aggressors because of their genome adulteration. Today ‘Indian secularism’ stands for discrimination in favour of one particular community much less against Sikhism, Christianity, Buddhism or others. Because they are not significant in the vote-politics. The killers of the Sikhs in 1984 are still at large.

People must be wary of such biased secularists and so-called progressive historians and thespians thriving on govt. largesse.