तरली तर चेटकीण, बुडली तर स्त्री-हक्क कार्यकर्ती! ....Make It New

Ezra Pound: "Make It New."

André Gide: “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”

 courtesy: Wikipedia

(Illustration from an 18th century chapbook reproduced in Chap-books of the eighteenth century by John Ashton (1834))

वरील चित्र इ स १८००च्या आधीचे आहे.इथे एका स्त्रीला शिक्षा दिली जातीय. त्यात जे मशीन आहे त्याला ककींग किंवा डकिंग स्टूल म्हणायचे.

का शिक्षा दिली जातीय? तर जास्त वाद घातल्याबद्दल. "Punishing a woman accused of excessive arguing in the ducking stool."

विकिपीडिया सांगते:

“In medieval times until the early 18th century, ducking was a way used to establish whether a suspect was a witch. The ducking stools were first used for this purpose but ducking was later inflicted without the chair. In this instance the victim's right thumb was bound to her left big toe. A rope was attached to her waist and the "witch" was thrown into a river or deep pond. If the "witch" floated it was deemed that she was in league with the devil, rejecting the "baptismal water". If the "witch" sank she was deemed innocent.”

आता या सगळ्या पार्श्वभूमीवर खालील मार्च २०१८मधले चित्र पहा :

Artist: Peter Kuper, The New Yorker, March 2018

एक चांगला कार्टूनिस्ट एका जुन्या चित्रात नव्याने प्राण कसा भरू शकतो याचे हे उदाहरण आहे. भारतातील अशाच एका प्रयत्नासाठी- स्व. सुधीर तेलंग यांनी केलेल्या-  ही "Sudhir Tailang Is Making Shankar New"

मे २०१२ची पोस्ट पहा.