| Spirits, are you there? Every time we beckon, we call. | | | | memory they would appear and say as the ghost of |
| And lo! they do appear as though they are here and | | | | Hamlet says- |
| now. Spirits are violent and historical; we live through | | | | Ghost- I am thy father's spirit,doom'd for the certain |
| and by them. For thousand years we are teaching | | | | term to walk the night;and for the day confine'd to fast |
| love and peace but they would be called upon and all | | | | in fires,till the foule crimes done in my dayes of Nature |
| these good Spirit theories vanish. Among spirits Spirit | | | | Are burnt and purg'd away: but that I am forbidto tell |
| of Marx is great which is haunting our lives. Haunting is | | | | the secrets of prison-house; |
| historical says Derrida. We are being haunted and we | | | | I could a tale unfold...and we obeyed and spirit won. |
| are condemned to live through and in them. Every time | | | | Spirits are buried in graves, memories, histories. |
| when humanity faces problems they would be | | | | Museums and ideologies. One has to know it in order |
| beckoned; Spirits, are you there? Hegel Says, "reason | | | | to invoke them, one should know them in order to bury |
| is spirit when its certainty of being all reality has been | | | | them so far they could not move and roam and haunt. |
| raised to truth, and it is conscious of itself as its own | | | | Marx described and diagnosed them notably that of its |
| world, and of the world as itself. | | | | unifying project and tried to bury them. He commanded |
| The coming-to-be of spirit was indicated in the | | | | them but they were waiting in the folds of history to |
| immediately preceding movement in which the object | | | | reappear and bury the spirit of Marx. It goes on thus |
| of consciousness, the pure category, rose to be the | | | | there is no rest. Valery wrote about this problem of |
| notion of Reason." It is this very spirit -reason that was | | | | spirit, " the European Hamlet looks at thousands of |
| resurrected by him as universal spirit inhabiting nations. | | | | specters. but he is an intellectual Hamlet. he meditates |
| This spirit was criticized by Marx; he analyzed those | | | | on the life and death of truths. his ghosts are all the |
| spirits -the industrialists of philosophy and art who till | | | | objects of controversies; his remorse is all the title of |
| then had lived on the exploitation of the absolute spirit. | | | | our glory......if he seizes a skull, it is an illustrious |
| So haunting is historical; in every juncture of history a | | | | skull--"whose was it? -- this one was Lionardo.....and this |
| spirit-specter is being invoked and it haunted the | | | | other skull is that of Leibniz who dreamed of universal |
| humans. We are mortals only spirit is immortal, it has all | | | | peace. and this one was Kant qui genuit Hegel, qui |
| right to haunt us and make us immortal. We believe in | | | | genuit Marx,...Hamlet does not know what to do with all |
| spirits, in past, we live present through past. | | | | these sculls. But if he abandons them! ....will he cease to |
| Spirits are in us, in our morality, our culture our way of | | | | be himself?". we love spirits so we have book of the |
| life. We don't see them only we feel them. Derrida | | | | dead, the theories and practices that make them |
| says; "specter is becoming- body a certain form of | | | | appear according to wishes. |
| spirit". We have learned it from our ancestors that's | | | | This spirit is abstract as well as concrete. It is this spirit |
| why we find spirit worshipers everywhere. Many | | | | that has taken a form of empire, it this very spirit that |
| traditional Indian Baniyas invoke the spirits of their | | | | baptizes humanity with its morality, law, custom etc. |
| fathers and fore fathers in their houses and shops. | | | | This was controlled by power, production mechanism, |
| What exactly they do by invoking the dead fathers? | | | | art, literature etc.; for its possession there were wars in |
| They are invoking their spirits (reason) that knew the | | | | the history. I through my art try to identify them, let |
| art of haunting (exploiting) people. We never let our | | | | them reappear on my canvases to bury the spirits of |
| fathers die; we are habitual so we make offerings to | | | | good and decorative art. Spirits command spirits this is |
| them. We are haunted by ghosts from birth to death; | | | | the rule. As in France spirits ousted one another, |
| one spirit exits then one enters, then one exist and | | | | heroes of the mind overthrew each other rapidly |
| another enters -this goes on and on. Why they never | | | | during the wake of modernism so it could happen here |
| leave us? Because we have memories; we can not | | | | in our country too. New Ghosts are waiting to make |
| get rid of memories and history (it is also memory). | | | | their entry since good art is making its exit. |
| Whenever we try to get rid of them, to get rid of | | | | |