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Originally posted by dhamsaic
These people seem very happy with it. It just reminds me how different we are. I don't recall American kids making snowmen of blown up Iraqis or Palestinians...
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While presented that way, that's a very tempting first-take, I'm not totally convinced that this was intended in a mocking way. Obviously a lot of labor went into it, and it may have been intended as a memorial or observance.
While sand isn't really an enduring medium, not everybody in India is in a position to be able to afford marble or something. After all, there's already two volumes of the 9-11 "comic art" book published in that paperback "graphic novel" format, and it is full of very serious and in some cases very deeply moving work.
And right now, Indians (and these folks do look like Hindus to me) have no more reason to be fond of Moslem extremists than New Yorkers do.
OK...now after a little websearching (looking for "sand sculpture" rather than "sand castle"), on intellectualoutcastscafe.com, we find the same image is displayed with the caption: <i>Passersby stop to look at a sand sculpture by artist Sudarshan Patnaik depicting the September 11 World Trade Centre attack. The sand sculpture display is a part of the ongoing Puri Beach Festival on India's Bay of Bengal.</i>
Puts a very different spin on it, I think.