An outburst

A(an incomplete) response to Anish Kapoor's article

Sherlock Holmes has set a bad example for Britain. Or perhaps I'll take that sentence back, because I'm a die hard fan of Conan Doyle's world famous sleuth. But I will not take back my accusation that the British continues to "make it their business to know things". Knowing things is fine, but this country crossed that line centuries ago. I thought they had learnt their lesson on limits, but they clearly haven't, and poking their nose into others' business continues to earn them the wrath of people like me. Well, I thought I'd start with them making a big scene with India's daughter, but I guess that topic has run its course. But then again, it's only a matter of time before they come up with some other such case of interference, and they are shown their place again. I'd just like to state that if it hadn't been for this irritating attitude, England could have been at the top of the world instead of what I'd call a pseudo-country that their nose poking created.

This isn't a criticism of the article as such, nor even an analysis. I wish to merely point out the tone at with which it has begun.

So, Mr. Kapoor, if you run out of nice lines to start your article with, you can always ask me - you seem to have been pretty off-guard while starting your article - seems ironical when we look at the name of the journal that published it. Being a Hindubandhu (ref Brahmabandhu) (or perhaps not) I'm sure you realize that you have compared a man to a terrorist group in your title, and, right in the first line of your article, to one of the most revered deities in the world, needless to say, hurting the sentiments of people like me, and depriving your otherwise well written article of the audience it otherwise deserves.

Criticizing any elected leader is perfectly acceptable - we're both democracies, and Mr. Modi is certainly answerable to all of us, but The Guardian publishing this particular article seems to have a slightly more twisted agenda than that.

I realize that this could have been added as a comment on Mr. Kapoor's post, or rather, as a personal message, but I'm sure that to a sculptor who proudly flaunts a queen's private parts, this doesn't even qualify as publicity.

I do realize that this post is a messy, incoherent jibber-jabber, but I'm going to let it be, for it is an emotional outburst.