Hindustan Times
India wows at Ono’s daughters
Now that we have Yoko Ono exhibitions in India, women rights activists are very aptly blooming with joy. After all, they have a woman’s works with them, who has championed their cause ‘all alone’, all these years.
The feisty “protest artist’ (as she describes herself) never got bogged down after the tragic murder of her husband (John Lennon) and, instead, took on the forces acting against her to become a greater “sore point” for her critics.
Her show in India, ‘Our Beautiful Daughters’ is yet another ‘leap’ towards women’s emancipation from what she calls “a world of male priorities”.
“The whole world is starting to realise that it was the most unwise thing to have ignored woman-power, to run society with male priorities.”
As a performance artist, she has been able to challenge and break all unfair, dominating and stereotype rules against her ’sisters’. And, despite the snub she has been getting from the art elite, particularly in the west, she has found India an ideal home that is quite “receptive” to her ‘bravado’. The West never accepted “this evil witch from the East (Japan) as their own daughter. Indeed, their loss is our gain.
But Indian women, whom she calls lovely and beautiful, see in her their saviour. She has emerged their hope and a crucial factor for arousing the conscience of the ignorant and the insensitive world towards the rights and sensibilities of women all over the world. She represents the kind of woman, in the words of Martina Navratilova, who sets no limits and knows no limits.
And don’t forget that women, as creators of mankind, have in them strength and substance that men can’t hope to have. They are like the bird that civil rights activist Maya Angelou described this way, “A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”
And my love for quoting this quote of another rights activist, Lucretia Mott, never fades, “The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.”
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