My humble pranams to shri vijay kumar for writing this Informative book and sharing his experience in getting our gods and heritage artifacts back home safely from the looters den.
Book Starts with the vishwakarmas who are molding the statue of Nataraja form of Bhagawan Shiva as per the wish of a devotee who is eagerly waiting for the good news of birth of his son and then comes the scene where our Ancestors performing the last pooja and hiding the Utsava murthis of Shiva and his family so that it doesn’t come under assault of the invaders who nearing their doors and even sacrificing the life to protect the deities from the loot.
Here we are in the modern world and under the rule of government according to constitution where we have dissolved fully functioning system of Temple Management where every person in the society of believers had a role to perform to rigid and rule following system of governance of the temple where temple is being treated as treasure for the government to loot or tourist spot to showcase the world .
In this world of rigid and lethargic system our temples have been depleted and gods have been kept in bad condition and making it golden opportunities for the looters like Subhash Kapoor, Sanjeev, Deendayal , Prakash families to plunders the temples and sells the artifacts to the museums and the private collectors across the globe.
In the era of IT revolution State and Central Government’s departments like External affairs, Home Ministry and ASIs failing to keep track of the idols of the deities in the temples and museums and not able to follow up with the foreign countries respective departments in getting back the idols stolen from our country is worrisome and breaks our heart when they make shady deals with these looters just because they returned 1 out of 20 artifacts they have looted.
We need more people like Vijay Kumar who as a common citizen did tremendously work in their personal capacity in tracking the Idols and Artifacts which have reached the auction house and museums in a shady manner from people like Subhas Kapoor.
In the Government system too we have people like Selvaraj, Indy who understood the importance of Nation’s heritage and tried hard in nabbing the culprit responsible for looting the nation's wealth and trying even harder to make sure the Idols and artifacts returned to its home safely, more strength to them.
Special Thanks to Jason Felch, Michaela Boland and Kirit Mankodi for helping Vijay Kumar in his work.
I Highly recommend this book and I urge every Indian or anyone who has interest and love for the heritage of the country and religion to read this book and support the people who are behind this painstakingly hard task of finding the stolen gods from their respective temples.
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