Though the administration for progress of Man felt relieved of the problem, Though the administration for progress of Man felt relieved of the problem,
They still fabricated and brought out all the defects of the trees in a note,
proposing dire consequences to the criminals who escaped axing. Finance Ministry, also, joined the administration to make their note convincing by exaggerating the expenditure on growing and maintaining trees.
They even suggested that in their stead, plastic trees should be erected for its obvious advantages.
Custodians of law were sent in all direction. The file could not be closed till the trees were caught and punishment administered. The administration again proposed with further justifications, the words tree and green to be deleted from the vocabulary of Man.
The solution was found, implemented and the file was closed.
Man perished thereafter and the earth disintegrated soon after.

Ved Nayar

The leader came to hoist the flag from the rampart.
The flag went up.
The leader slipped from the rampart,
his neck got entangled in the rope of his`Karma',
hoisting the flag.
The flag fluttered, the leader dangled.
Silently the people started dispersing,
the lips moved for a smile,
the smile came to the lips,
then scared away.

Ved Nayar

Indian Contemporary Art 

India is an older cultural identity. It is a small world in itself with much diversity. It lives amidst many time spans simultaneously... in the past, in the present and in the future.
Because of its geographical location and physical features, India has always been open to external influences, cultural attractions and interactions. India has the capacity to generate its own thought process and it has the flexibility to receive, imbibe and use external influences and cultural interactions to enthuse vitality and relevance in its creative human endeavors.
Indian contemporary art, after independence in 1947, has passed through a period of derivation and a period of retrospection, to arrive to mean, an individual artist's creative expression in his own creative visual imagery. Both, the period of derivation and retrospection came into being as reactions to the prevailing situations. The compulsions of creative expression in the artist's own creative visual imagery

evolved out of these two reaction situations and the expanding grasp of global perceptions.
Freedom and democracy created a liberation hysteria, a desire to equal, even surpass, western standards of material and creative human endeavor. Artists coming on the scene at this juncture were exposed, to the already established and recognized art directions of Europe & later American, mostly through reproductions and art books while studying in the British type academic art schools in India and not by direct contact with the works of art and the artists there. Because the Indian artists of this period had no direct access to the emerging contemporary thought process in the west, they fell a step behind the contemporary art scenario there and this one step backwardness could not be redeemed.
The application of the gospels of western art appreciation and reference in judging contemporary Indian art further stamped this status. Each one of the western inclined Indian artist picked up the technique and the thought process of a western artist of his choice and