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The first good news for HindOOs in a long time (as far as I've seen/can remember): The Australian PM will finally be returning the Nataraja and Ardharaareeshwara moorties to Modi which had been stolen from Tamil Nadu Kovils and which had been sold to Australian museums/galleries.
1. m.theaustralian.com.au/arts/visual-arts/home-at-last-looted-shivas-to-be-handed-over-in-meeting-of-pms/story-fn9d3avm-1227048275134?nk=5475024e42b726b900d6bd268606b763#
2. www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2014/09/05/abbott-to-return-stolen-indian-statues.html
The interesting thing to note is that Indian christomedia - and their master the BBC - puts the word stolen in quotes, as if it is merely an allegation, practically unfounded.
However, every Australian news source (and the UK paper Guardian) I looked at did not put quotes around the word stolen, which at least shows that the Australians have verified for themselves that what the Hind side has been stating so far is true: that the Hindoos' moorties had been stolen and sold off and hence were in illegal possession in these Australian and other foreign museums.
In future, India should place an irrevocable death sentence on any entity that steals (or damages or otherwise desecrates) Hindoo moorties from Hindoo sites like temples, let alone sells them off to foreign nations or non-Hindu/secular institutions.
3. www.businessinsider.com.au/australian-pm-tony-abbott-returns-national-gallerys-6-million-stolen-shiva-sculpture-to-india-2014-9
4. smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/dancing-shiva-to-be-returned-during-abbotts-india-visit-20140905-10cqvy.html
The return of the moorties is a great victory for Hindoos and their heathenism. Now Hindoos in the home country will be reunited with these sacred moorties of their Divine Father and Mother. Poor Hindoos in the relevant temple(s), how miserable they must have been these past 7 years to have been been forcibly separated from the divine beaming faces of their Gods' moorties blessing them. I have seen old Hindoos panic and go into grief and shock in a matter of moments when their home pooja moorties appeared lost - even though these turned out to be merely temporarily hidden from view, such as by a resident clueless/underage bandit. I can't even imagine what a 7 year separation must be like for the temples' Hindoos who knew the stolen Nataraja and Ardhanaareeshwara moorties and their temple-home well; they must have felt forlorn at the thought of never being reunited with these moorties of their Gods.
Modi's work is not over and is in fact un-ending (that's the problem with a job well done): not only must he next ensure that the sacred moorties are returned directly to the Hindoo kovils in TN where these Gods belong (and specifically not let the evil christo instutitions in India like HR&CE confiscate them and put them in India's secular 'museums'), but he must next exert his influence on the German and American museums too to get them to return the many Hindoo moorties that were similarly stolen from our temples by Subhash Kapoor's christoislamic gang.
Further every last penny must be squeezed out of Kapoor and his cohorts (before locking them up for good) to reimburse the foreign museums - fair is fair - but with a stern warning that if foreign nations' museums ever come by Hindu "art" works again, they need to be aware that these are invariably looted, that Hindu nationalist authorities - if any are in power - else Hindoo organisations must be notified of both the "art" and its "seller", and the "art" must be repatriated to the Hindoo nation (India/Nepal/Bali etc) and the Hindoo temples they were stolen from. And that anything less is a crime against said Hindoo country and its people and an act of cultural genocide. (Though it's specifically an act of genociding heathens, but heathen religion is dubbed mere "culture" by foreign countries, just like moorties are dubbed mere "art", in order to secularise these immeasurably sacred aspects. But western institutions/museums and often even their govts do not understand heathen explanations of living religion, and so their reason must be appealed to with terms like "art" and "cultural" "heritage" etc.)
Modi, being now in a position of power, needs to take the opportunity to broadcast it clearly to all foreign nations that there is no such thing as ancient or otherwise priceless Hindu "artwork" that is not looted from Hindoo temples, so that all such works acquired by foreign museums are illegal acquitions by definition and must be returned. Foreign museums are allowed to send their gangsters/loan sharks to get illegal dealers like Subhash Kapoor to cough up the money they paid him, or else use force to "convince" him to return it (i.e. make looters like Subhash Kapoor the kind of "offer he can't refuse").
Further examples of how the Australian (and Guardian UK) news reporting - seen above and immediately below - does not have the word stolen in quotes:
Compare all that with Indian christomedia and BBC UK news reporting, who all consciously host the article with the word stolen in quotes:
More proof Indian English-language media is christomedia.
The first good news for HindOOs in a long time (as far as I've seen/can remember): The Australian PM will finally be returning the Nataraja and Ardharaareeshwara moorties to Modi which had been stolen from Tamil Nadu Kovils and which had been sold to Australian museums/galleries.
1. m.theaustralian.com.au/arts/visual-arts/home-at-last-looted-shivas-to-be-handed-over-in-meeting-of-pms/story-fn9d3avm-1227048275134?nk=5475024e42b726b900d6bd268606b763#
Quote:Visual Arts
Home at last: looted Shivas to be handed over in meeting of PMs
Michaela BolandNational Arts Writer
Sydney Sid Maher National Affairs Editor Canberra
by: MICHAELA BOLAND AND SID MAHER
From:
The Australian September 05, 2014 12:00AM
DANCING Shiva is finally home. Seven years after the bronze Hindu statue was wrenched from a crumbling temple in Tamil Nadu and trafficked internationally, before being sold to the National Gallery of Australia, Tony Abbott will hand it to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he meets him in New Delhi today. The Australian can reveal the Prime Minister wanted to have his plane transport the $5.6 million Dancing Shiva and a $300,000 stone Shiva with Nandi from the Art Gallery of NSW but they were too heavy and were dispatched on Wednesday by jumbo jet instead.
2. www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2014/09/05/abbott-to-return-stolen-indian-statues.html
Quote:Abbott to return stolen Indian statues
Published: 4:10 pm, Friday, 5 September 2014
Prime Minister Tony Abbott will personally return two revered Indian statues sold to Australian museums in murky circumstances to his counterpart Narendra Modi.
Mr Abbott will make the symbolic gesture to India on Friday before formal talks with the Indian prime minister in New Delhi.
One of the ancient statues - estimated to be 900 years old - was bought by the National Gallery of Australia for more than $5 million in 2008 from a disgraced art dealer.
(The disgraced art dealer is that evil and obvious-convert-to-monotheism, Subhash Kapoor, who sold off a huge number of Hindoo moorties - looted from esp. Tamil Hindu temples by christoislamics - to western museums. SK and his minions need to be locked into a prison cell and the key thrown away.)
The other stone statue of a Hindu god was bought by the Art Gallery of NSW.
The Indian government had formally requested the artefacts be returned to their homeland.
Mr Abbott will also present Mr Modi with framed pictures of Australian and Indian troops serving side by side at ANZAC Cove at Gallipoli.
More than one million Indian soldiers served during World War I for the British Empire in Europe and the Middle East.
Mr Abbott laid a wreath at India's national war memorial on Friday.
Earlier in the day, he was welcomed to India by a full military procession at the presidential palace.
He will later visit an trauma centre to announce new funding for medical research co-operation between Australian and Indian scientists.
Aside from the statues, Mr Abbott will present Mr Modi with a jacket and a traditional kurta garment made from Australian wool, and a shawl for his mother.
India is Australia's second-largest market for wool.
The two prime ministers are expected to announce a major deal allowing Australia to sell uranium to India later in the day.
AAP
The interesting thing to note is that Indian christomedia - and their master the BBC - puts the word stolen in quotes, as if it is merely an allegation, practically unfounded.
However, every Australian news source (and the UK paper Guardian) I looked at did not put quotes around the word stolen, which at least shows that the Australians have verified for themselves that what the Hind side has been stating so far is true: that the Hindoos' moorties had been stolen and sold off and hence were in illegal possession in these Australian and other foreign museums.
In future, India should place an irrevocable death sentence on any entity that steals (or damages or otherwise desecrates) Hindoo moorties from Hindoo sites like temples, let alone sells them off to foreign nations or non-Hindu/secular institutions.
3. www.businessinsider.com.au/australian-pm-tony-abbott-returns-national-gallerys-6-million-stolen-shiva-sculpture-to-india-2014-9
Quote:Australian PM Tony Abbott Returns National Gallery's $6 Million Stolen Shiva Sculpture To India
Simon Thomsen Today at 9:01 AM
[photo caption - note, beautiful photo of the Divine Father of Hindoos, Nataraja:] Tony Abbott will give Indian prime minister Narendra Modi a 900-year-old bronze statue of the god Shiva, looted from a temple in Tamil Nadu, when they meet in Delhi today.
Shiva Nataraja (dancing Shiva) was bought by the National Gallery of Australia in 2008 for $5.6 million, but earlier this year, its provenance came under a cloud because it was bought from New York art dealer Subhash Kapoor, who is currently facing trial in India over the theft of multiple artefacts. Kapoorââ¬â¢s former gallery manager was found guilty of trafficking stolen art by a US court.
The scandal of artworks stolen from India temples also embroiled the Art Gallery of NSW, which paid $300,000 for a stone idol, Ardhanariswara, in 2004. It was also stolen [see businessinsider.com.au/galleries-surrender-two-stolen-sculptures-worth-6-million-to-hand-back-to-india-2014-4] and is being returned.
The Australian reports [see theaustralian.com.au/arts/visual-arts/home-at-last-looted-shivas-to-be-handed-over-in-meeting-of-pms/story-fn9d3avm-1227048275134#] that the Prime Minister wanted to take the sculptures in his plane as he headed to India, but they were too heavy.
(Abbott has sent the vigrahas on ahead, see TheAustralian news.)
Indiaââ¬â¢s Government sought the return of the dancing shiva statue back in March after it was removed from the country in contravention of international laws protecting cultural heritage. It sparked an investigation into the provenance of the statue.
The NGA has maintained it made appropriate checks about its provenance. The purchase was made during the tenure of Ron Radford, who steps down as NGA director at the end of this month.
(Oh come on. The provenance of the moorties is obviously Hindoo land, they know that. They know also that it's 900 years old, Chola era. So did the NGA/National Gallery of Australia really mean to pretend they imagined that 900 year old priceless Hindoo moorties grew on trees, free for anyone to pick and sell? No. They know full well these are *temple* moorties (by and for ethnic Hindoos alone), from Hindoo temples. In Bharatam. And that therefore these moorties must have been looted from the temples, in order for foreign institutions to have even caught sight of them let alone acquired them. Hindoo temple moorties do NOT belong in foreign countries, and/or with non-Hindoo persons, and/or in secular/non-Hindoo sites like museums.
I can understand that American, Australian and German etc museums may feel embarrassed to admit they *knowingly* bought looted Indian and Balinese Hindoo Temple moorties, but the play-acting of innocence needs to stop. They knew it was looted, everyone does. There is no other way for foreign institutions to have come by centuries-old authentic Hindoo moorties.)
4. smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/dancing-shiva-to-be-returned-during-abbotts-india-visit-20140905-10cqvy.html
Quote:Dancing Shiva to be returned during Abbott's India visit
Political News Art and Design ACT News
Date September 5, 2014 - 10:03AM
Latika Bourke
National political reporter
The Shiva statue Prime Minister Tony Abbott will return to India during his visit. Photo: Jay Cronan
The $5 million illegally trafficked dancing Shiva that ended up in the National Gallery of Australia will be handed back to Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi as part of Prime Minister Tony Abbott's visit to India.
Mr Abbott will also return a stone sculpture of the Indian God Ardhanarishvara. The two sculptures were bought from disgraced New York based antiquities dealer Subhash Kapoor who is now on trial in Chennai.
The 900-year-old bronze Shiva as Nataraja, Lord of the Dance dates to the Chola dynasty and was stolen from a temple in Tamil Nadu, before being sold to the National Gallery in 2008.
The returning of the sculptures ends a long-running battle that had become an irritant in the Australia-India relationship, along with the former Rudd government's decision to abandon uranium sales to the sub contintent in 2007, which was then reversed by former prime minister Julia Gillard in 2011.
Mr Abbott and Attorney-General George Brandis decided at a dinner last month that he would personally oversee the return of the artworks.
The Indian government requested the return of the statutes in March under a UNESCO agreement governing stolen artworks, to which Australia and India are both signatories. India indicated at the time that it expected they would be repatriated within 30 days.
The director of the National Gallery, Ron Radford, removed the statue from display at the end of March and said a few weeks later that the institution may have been "the victim of a most audacious fraud" over the purchase of Indian antiquities from the disgraced antiquities dealer.
The return of the moorties is a great victory for Hindoos and their heathenism. Now Hindoos in the home country will be reunited with these sacred moorties of their Divine Father and Mother. Poor Hindoos in the relevant temple(s), how miserable they must have been these past 7 years to have been been forcibly separated from the divine beaming faces of their Gods' moorties blessing them. I have seen old Hindoos panic and go into grief and shock in a matter of moments when their home pooja moorties appeared lost - even though these turned out to be merely temporarily hidden from view, such as by a resident clueless/underage bandit. I can't even imagine what a 7 year separation must be like for the temples' Hindoos who knew the stolen Nataraja and Ardhanaareeshwara moorties and their temple-home well; they must have felt forlorn at the thought of never being reunited with these moorties of their Gods.
Modi's work is not over and is in fact un-ending (that's the problem with a job well done): not only must he next ensure that the sacred moorties are returned directly to the Hindoo kovils in TN where these Gods belong (and specifically not let the evil christo instutitions in India like HR&CE confiscate them and put them in India's secular 'museums'), but he must next exert his influence on the German and American museums too to get them to return the many Hindoo moorties that were similarly stolen from our temples by Subhash Kapoor's christoislamic gang.
Further every last penny must be squeezed out of Kapoor and his cohorts (before locking them up for good) to reimburse the foreign museums - fair is fair - but with a stern warning that if foreign nations' museums ever come by Hindu "art" works again, they need to be aware that these are invariably looted, that Hindu nationalist authorities - if any are in power - else Hindoo organisations must be notified of both the "art" and its "seller", and the "art" must be repatriated to the Hindoo nation (India/Nepal/Bali etc) and the Hindoo temples they were stolen from. And that anything less is a crime against said Hindoo country and its people and an act of cultural genocide. (Though it's specifically an act of genociding heathens, but heathen religion is dubbed mere "culture" by foreign countries, just like moorties are dubbed mere "art", in order to secularise these immeasurably sacred aspects. But western institutions/museums and often even their govts do not understand heathen explanations of living religion, and so their reason must be appealed to with terms like "art" and "cultural" "heritage" etc.)
Modi, being now in a position of power, needs to take the opportunity to broadcast it clearly to all foreign nations that there is no such thing as ancient or otherwise priceless Hindu "artwork" that is not looted from Hindoo temples, so that all such works acquired by foreign museums are illegal acquitions by definition and must be returned. Foreign museums are allowed to send their gangsters/loan sharks to get illegal dealers like Subhash Kapoor to cough up the money they paid him, or else use force to "convince" him to return it (i.e. make looters like Subhash Kapoor the kind of "offer he can't refuse").
Further examples of how the Australian (and Guardian UK) news reporting - seen above and immediately below - does not have the word stolen in quotes:
Quote:Abbott to return stolen Indian statues - The Australian (a video)
www.theaustralian.com.au/.../id-hkdXgzcDpIh6_Ios8Sj0_BGfy1k6MN_d
PM Tony Abbott will return two Indian statues sold to Australian museums to his
counterpart Narendra Modi.
Abbott to return stolen Indian statues - The West Australian
au.news.yahoo.com/.../abbott-to-return-stolen-indian-statues6 hours ago
Prime Minister Tony Abbott will personally return two revered Indian statues sold to Australian museums in murky circumstances to his counterpart Narendra Modi.
Abbott to return stolen Indian statues
www.9news.com.au/.../05/15/03/abbott-to-return-stolen-indian-statuesPrime Minister Tony Abbott will personally return two revered Indian statues sold to Australian museums in murky circumstances to his counterpart Narendra Modi.
Stolen Indian statue, Shiva Nataraja, to go home during Tony Abbott ...
www.theguardian.com/.../stolen-indian-statue-shiva-nataraja-to-go-home- during-tony-abbott-visitââ¬Å½Cached
7 hours ago ... The prime minister will hand back the $5.6m, 900-year-old statue to India at a
formal reception on Friday.
Compare all that with Indian christomedia and BBC UK news reporting, who all consciously host the article with the word stolen in quotes:
Quote:Australian PM Tony Abbott to Return 'Stolen' Statues to India
NDTV - 3 hours agoAustralia's prime minister Tony Abbott, during his meeting with PM Modi, will hand back two statues allegedly looted from ancient temples in ...
Australian PM Tony Abbott to return `stolen` statues to Narendra ...
zeenews.india.com/.../australian-pm-tony-abbott-to-return-stolen-statues-to- narendra-modi_1465275.htmlââ¬Å½Cached
4 hours ago ... Tony Abbott will return the sculptures during his meeting with Narendra Modi in
New Delhi, following allegations the pieces, which had been ...
BBC News - Australia to return 'stolen' Hindu statues to India
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-29074311ââ¬Å½Cached
2 hours ago ... Prime Minister Tony Abbott will return to India two ancient Hindu statues
displayed in Australia, but allegedly stolen from Indian temples.
More proof Indian English-language media is christomedia.