Claude Monet Water Lily Pond painting

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published a volume of poems about his visit to the "little temple town" of Gagari in the Western Ghats. The poems had been criticized by the Hindu right; one eminent South Indian professor had announced that Bhupen had "forfeited his right to be called an Indian poet", but in the opinion of the young woman, Swatilekha, Bhupen had been seduced by religion into a dangerous ambiguity. Grey hair flopping earnestly, moon-face shining, Bhupen defended himself. "I have said that the only crop of Gagari is the stone gods being quarried from the hills. I have spoken of herds of legends, with sacred cowbells tinkling, grazing on the hillsides. These are not ambiguous images." Swatilekha wasn't convinced. "These days," she insisted, "our positions must be stated with crystal clarity. All metaphors are capable of misinterpretation." She offered her theory. Society was orchestrated by what she called _grand narratives_: history, economics, ethics. In India, the development of a corrupt and closed state apparatus had "excluded the masses of the people from the