[Reader-list] Husain Exhibition Attacked in Delhi

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

Art - It cannot be called a work of Art for sure.

Wonder why the Danish cartoonist abused, maligned and mis-represented. Even
his was a work of pure art. Amd, wasn't that his job too...

Its quite unfortunate to see some ultra-liberals (chappal & Jholla fame)
defending such mindless imagination. There isn't any justification for it.

Had something of this scale been done in some other country such as
Pakistan, Saudia Arabia, China etc.; the person would't have been alive by
now.

Aditya Raj Kaul


On 8/25/08, S. Jabbar <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You are welcome to critique the works of the artist and what you perceive
> to
> be the motives that drive her/his art.
>
> But why is it that you feel the need to defend the right to destroy that
> art?
>
>
>
> On 8/25/08 8:44 PM, "Prabhakar Singh" <prabhakardelhi at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > The work of art is for the consumption of people but it should not
> consume the
> > consumer itself.The artist should know it very well.He should not try to
> play
> > with their faith just for his/her cheap fun.An artist who is not
> sensitive to
> > emotions and faith of the people at large is not an artist at all.Art is
> not
> > an end in itself.It is for the people and for the good of the society.
> > Prabhakar
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: S. Jabbar <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com>
> > To: Prabhakar Singh <prabhakardelhi at yahoo.com>; Shuddhabrata Sengupta
> > <shuddha at sarai.net>; Sarai <reader-list at sarai.net>
> > Sent: Monday, 25 August, 2008 8:25:17 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Husain Exhibition Attacked in Delhi
> >
> > People have become rather emotional and touchy of late.  Everyone seems
> to
> > have become hypersensitive and quick to take offense-- of course it helps
> if
> > there are TV cameras to record one's display of piety.
> >
> > Is one's faith so fragile that a drawing or a piece of poetry or writing
> and
> > can shake it?  Evidently so and mores the pity.  Why tear down works of
> art
> > when it is faith that is crumbling?  My prescription is twenty years of
> > solitary meditation in a cave in the Himalayas.
> >
> > Do you know the story of Swami Vivekanand who stood in front of the
> goddess
> > at Khir Bhavani? Look it up.  It's instructive.  And humbling.
> >
> >
> > On 8/25/08 7:52 PM, "Prabhakar Singh" <prabhakardelhi at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Artists should be careful about the cultural or religious sensitivities
> of
> >> the
> >> people.Art can flourish even without delving on such sensitive and
> touchy
> >> issues which may have emotional importance for some
> >> people.
> > Prabhakar
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Shuddhabrata Sengupta
> >> <shuddha at sarai.net>
> > To: sarai list <reader-list at sarai.net>
> > Sent: Monday, 25
> >> August, 2008 6:30:19 PM
> > Subject: [Reader-list] Husain Exhibition Attacked in
> >> Delhi
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Once again, with depressing, monotonous and disgusting
> >>
> > predictability, a group of hooligans affiliated to the Hindutva
> > (Hindu
> >> Fundamentalist) agenda who call themselves the 'Shri Ram Sena'
> > have attacked
> >> and ransacked a small exhibition in Delhi of images by
> > and about the
> >> nonegarian painter M. F. Husain, The exhibition was
> > held on the premises of
> >> the office of the Safdar Hashmi Memorial
> > Trust (SAHMAT) in Delhi, to protest
> >> against the decision by the
> > orgnaizers of an Art Summit in Delhi to exclude
> >> work by Husain citing
> > reasons of security. This incident demonstrates, yet
> >> again, how
> > inimical the forces of Hindutva are to an open society and to
> >> the
> > freedom of expression.
> >
> > See -
> >> http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Husain-photo-
> >>
> > exhibition-vandalised-yet-again/352835/ for a report in the Indian
> > Express
> >> that carries details of the incident.
> >
> > This list has discussed such attacks on
> >> freedom of expression before,
> > and just as we have had forthright criticism
> >> of Muslim
> > fundamentalists attacking Taslima Nasrin, and the CPI (M) led
> >> West
> > Bengal government making it impossible for her to stay in Kolkata, so
> >>
> > too, we must take into account this latest assault on cultural
> > liberty.  I
> >> appeal to all to condemn this attack on the freedom of
> >>
> > expression.
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Shuddha
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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