[Reader-list] Husain Exhibition Attacked in Delhi
Prabhakar Singh
prabhakardelhi at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 26 22:09:02 IST 2008
It is outrageous.Only Hindus can tolerate such insult of their religion and culture.Can anybody even think of a reverse situation a Hindu doing such thing to Islam? Will anybody on earth tolerate it?
Prabhakar
----- Original Message ----
From: Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com>
To: Shivam Vij शिवम् विज् <mail at shivamvij.com>
Cc: sarai list <reader-list at sarai.net>
Sent: Tuesday, 26 August, 2008 5:48:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Husain Exhibition Attacked in Delhi
Shivam,
I hope you would agree that despite many protests Hussain continued to paint
obscene paintings of Hindu Gods.
Once he may have erred,but to continue doing may also be hurting many.
I hope you agree.
Pawan
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Shivam Vij शिवम् विज्
<mail at shivamvij.com>wrote:
> 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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