[Reader-list] Husain Exhibition Attacked in Delhi

S. Jabbar sonia.jabbar at gmail.com
Mon Aug 25 21:37:58 IST 2008 

What, dear Aditya are you referring to and pronouncing on now?  Is this too
to be labeled under Muslim art and anti-Muslim art, one to denounced and the
other to be defended? What a terrible bore!


On 8/25/08 9:15 PM, "Aditya Raj Kaul" <kauladityaraj at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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