[Reader-list] Husain Exhibition Attacked in Delhi

Shivam Vij शिवम् विज् mail at shivamvij.com
Tue Aug 26 17:43:56 IST 2008 

To compare the Danish cartoon's with Husain's art is a faux pas - one
was intended to hurt and the other wasn't
best
shivam

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 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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