[Reader-list] and Gandhi dies again...

[Keith Hart]

Vishwajyoti Ghosh,

I was moved by your account of how your art works suffered an assault by 
fascist thugs. I live near the Gare du Nord and know the Gandhi Fried 
Chicken place you mention. So that brought an immediacy to what is 
normally a rather abstract process of reading..

Your epigraph about religion and morality is wise, but didn't the 
perpetrators of the deed that this was exactly what their actions stood 
for? I raise this not just as a rhetorical problem, but as an issue that 
inevitably rises if politics is to be built on a foundation of morality 
and religion.

And I wonder if you are comparing like with like when you contrast these 
people with the liberal heroes of India's independence movement. As your 
header points out, Gandhi was shot by someone not unlike those who burnt 
your drawings and many people died in genocidal attacks at the time. Do 
you really mean to say that Indian society as a whole or even its 
political class alone has deteriorated since then? Again, I raise this 
question, not to put you on the spot, but because I too feel that we 
have lost something that the world generated in the 1940s, but I am not 
sure of the basis for my judgment..

Keith Hart