[Reader-list] Husain Exhibition Attacked in Delhi

[chanchal malviya]

Dear Salimji,

Let me explain you the meaning of sex in Hinduism. Hinduism believes that Sex is the biggest power that can move any person from his ideologies. Hence, there are many true as well as mythical stories in Hinduism that emphasizes that sex must be won over. 

You cannot win over a power without talking about it. Sex is a media through which this whole creation is going on. Sex is nothing but the power of nature to brood. And Hinduism is one and only on faith (not religion) that talks about winning over the senses (particularly sex). And Brahmacharya (practicing purity for at least 25 years of life when a child is growing) was one of the tool to achieve it. 

This no where means that the erotic power of sex was not understood. And what you see in caves are but a execution of that power over some artists who failed to win over it. This in no where means that Sex is erotic sense in Hinduism.  Kamadeva (power of nature, like all other Deva) is what is represented in those caves. We have temples of all the Devas (powers of nature). So that nature can be respected through the highest form of respect that is worship. And Kamdeva is one among them. 

M.F.Hussain is some different story than the concept of sex in Hinduism. So, please do not justify it. Even though you justify.. 
WHAT IS THE SENSE IN PAINTING MOTHERLAND INDIA NUDE?
WHY NOT HIS MOTHER FIRST IS THE QUESTION?




----- Original Message ----
From: inder salim <indersalim at gmail.com>
To: reader-list at sarai.net
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 6:18:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Husain Exhibition Attacked in Delhi

Dear Pawan ji, chanchal ji and prabhakar singh ji

How to demolish ' the mother ' in stone. I beleive, HIndusim will be
quite boring if we bomb thousands of  of erotic temples in India, let
alone Khajuraho temples. there is a lot of erotic poetry in Sanskrit.
Phallus is a symbol of fertility in many asian cultures, and  part of
that high symbolisim is breathing in Lingum and Yoni.

Socities in the past were not as backward aS we tend to be, since the
tools of fertility in the human body have been found more interesting,
and that is why we have godess with healthy breasts, and lustrous
eyes.

only a shallow mentality will try to keep wrapped with a moral fabric
of this kind.

Ironically, even asectic in Hinduism dont have any objection to the
erotic imagey in temples, and those who relish the best of material
world and live a vorocious emprical form of life are objecting to it.

Hussain is not a great aritst, i beleive so,  but he has every right
to paint what he wants to ...  like Khushwant Singh who has evey right
to publish dirtry jokes. Society is full of products that we  love to
consume.  It is only a propoganda that tells us  Hussain is
contaminated, so dont taste it.

It is high time we turn our minds towards what is truly contaminated
in our society, including  700000 crore fake medicine industry

love
inder salim


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Dear Sarang,

But the quetion, i beleive is still open to intrepretations.

First of all, i beleive, Karl Marx was, perhaps the first person who
overwhelmingly expressed a need to talk about the ills of society with
an urgency never seen before. It just happened that one of the
culprits was 'the sacred' of the religion at that time. Religion is
still the opium of th masses,and  therefore, we often tend to give
vent to that in day to day usuage of  language through jokes and
other such queerish behaviours. Expression through art is also part of
that day to day living.

Not because of great Art, but one can always some humour in Danish
cartoons and Hussain Drawings, for example,  but people miss the
point, because we tend to see what we are told to see, only.

yes, almost four to five thousand books have been written on Dr. Iqbal
and Islam, but only one or two on his poetry.

Yes, saying anything against the self appointed religous elites can
bring death sentence to you. This practice is as old as times. Lot of
Scientists had to suffer in the past for the very reasons, Mansoor
Hallaj was killed for uttering Ana-al-Haq ( i am the God ).

So there has been a constant struggle between the what is perceived
good for society and what is actually happeneing in the society. It is
different matter that there are millions of followers of Mansoor, who
are believers of Quran even, but those who killed him were not even
true believers of Prophet even. That applies to beleivers of Lord Rama
even,

I beleive, the question of representation was more interesting in an
era of Rennisance when photo-realism in art was seen next to Real, but
with modern ways of depicting things was seen as a radical shift from
that. Most it is about form, and if you see some meaning in it, it is
at your own peril.

The society is perhaps trained to see meaning in everything, perhaps,
because Art has not happned to most of us. Now how to blame artists
for that ?

and if we  believe, that society can do without such aritsts then i
think we follows a Stalin who banished all the artists from Russia who
were not good to the nation at that time.

inder salim
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