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US President Donald Trump has a packed schedule today in New Delhi. Earlier, the US President paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat and was also given a ceremonial welcome at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump held talks at the Hyderabad House, while the US First Lady Melania Trump attended ‘Happiness Class’ programme at a Delhi school. In the evening, Donald Trump will attend the state banquet hosted in his honour by President Kovind. Later, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu will also call on the visiting US President. Trump is scheduled to depart at 10 pm tonight.
“Our relations with Japan are centuries old. We have respect for each other’s cultures. This is because of Bapu (Mahatma Gandhi) We all have heard his saying, ‘bura mat dekho, bura mat suno, bura mat kaho’ (see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil). But very people know that the genesis of the three monkeys he chose to spread the message is in the 17th century Japan,” he said.
The three monkeys are Mizaru, covering his eyes, who sees no evil; Kikazaru, covering his ears, who hears no evil; and Iwazaru, covering his mouth, who speaks no evil.
This series of sculptures continues Gupta’s inspections of dualities in his artwork, including themes of war and peace, public and private, global and local.[3] The phrase “See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil” first emerged in Japan in the 17th century and was later adopted worldwide as a message of peace and tolerance due to Mahatma Gandhi’s visual metaphor of the three monkeys, with one of them covering his eyes, the second his mouth, and the third his ears.[2]
Gupta’s sculptures recall Gandhi’s vision of these three monkeys as a way to peacefully fight against contemporary colonialism, oppression and injustice.[
