[Reader-list] The Bliss of Madhuri: Husain and His Muse - a public lecture

Fri Apr 2 23:28:22 IST 2010

Kshemendra, disgusting or otherwise, it is your choice, freedom of choice,
but issue here is khans preferring to have females from ill organised castes
with wealth as criteria, khans claiming not terrorists with spins of movies,
khans being the violent khan clans is a fact, verified be it in this side or
that side of the "border". A togadia and a owaisi are enough to stoke the
violence and beget more of it, and the type of rule we have, which is
"secular" to overlook the atrocities of organised faiths indulging in
violence, making issue of retaliations, a bigger issue of intolerence, is
disgusting. Seculars did not have any words to condemn, express disgust at
the death of 57 lives in S6 coach, 3800 lives when the tree fell and earth
shook, Theesta was quiet for the zafri and his goonda acts, but is active
now for his violent death, that resulted his being goon. How long do you
think, kashmiris should live in camps of delhi, to get disgusted.?

As to Hussain, let him express his drawings but include his own parents whom
he revers as we rever our deities, for we say, parents are like god, teacher
is divine, so is the guest, but geelani, headley, rana and khans have proved
that thyey have no noble intentions or actions for the hosts with our rule
being "secular".

Your disgust does not stand to reason, for the simple reason, I am disgusted
that this 95 year old man has freedom to insult and injure, hurt the
societal feelings using freedom as license, freedom without duty to society
that we live in is useless, as all such freedom leads to anarchy and social
disorder.
love and regards,
rajen.

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>wrote:

>   Dear Rajendra
>
> I thought your mail was quite disgusting.
>
> But please ignore such thoughts of mine. Instead I would like to be
> educated by you through answers to the following two questions:
>
> 1. What should India do with these disgusting Muslims and all their
> disgusting practices?
>
> AND
>
> 2. What should India do with these disgusting Hindus and all their
> disgusting practices?
>
> These two questions need to be answered simultaneously so that we can make
> the roadmap for a better India.
>
> Kshmendra
>
>
> --- On *Tue, 3/30/10, Rajendra Bhat Uppinangadi <
> rajen786uppinangady at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Rajendra Bhat Uppinangadi <rajen786uppinangady at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] The Bliss of Madhuri: Husain and His Muse - a
> public lecture
> To: "Yousuf" <ysaeed7 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>, "jmi list" <
> jamia_millia_alumni_directory at yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 11:06 PM
>
>   Yousuf, there is nothing special about the fact that mindset of "muse",
> it
> is quite obivious mindset of few followers of a faith, as conquerers, to
> have woman of different faith in the present time, as if to live with past
> glories, as exhibited by the likes of a Mahesh Bhatt, shahrukh khan Amir
> Khan, in bollywood as well as that of Rizvis and many and many thousands
> who
> still make all out efforts to have faithful "harmony" and the fate of those
> wives with triple talaqs is well known in "secular India. !
> Atleast, individuals like a Harish Salve, Vayalar ravi who have married
> outside the faith, have been more sensitive unlike the My name is khan
> clan.!
>
> Regards,
> rajen.
>
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Yousuf <ysaeed7 at yahoo.com<http://us.mc572.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ysaeed7@yahoo.com>>
> wrote:
>
> > JAMES BEVERIDGE MEDIA RESOURCE CENTRE
> > AJK MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia
> >
> > invites you to a Public Lecture on
> > THE BLISS OF MADHURI: HUSAIN AND HIS MUSE
> > By
> > Patricia Uberoi
> >
> > JB MRC Room, MCRC New Building, 2nd Floor
> > Thursday, March 25, 2010, 2PM
> >
> > By all accounts, including his own, M.F. Husain has found artistic
> > inspiration in several ‘muses’, but none so publicly acknowledged and
> > well-publicized as his relationship with Bollywood screen goddess,
> Madhuri
> > Dixit. Husain committed her image to canvas in a series of featureless
> > portraits, and on celluloid through his five-million dollar film, Gaja
> > Gamini, which he scripted and directed.  ‘It took me 60 years to realize
> > this dream’, Husain wrote, ‘of which 30 years were spent in allowing
> Madhuri
> > to arrive.’
> > Following his trajectory from art to cinema, this illustrated
> presentation
> > critically reflects upon Husain’s project of rendering in cinema the
> > timeless attributes of Indian womanhood in relation to a universal ideal
> of
> > the feminine. In particular it seeks to address two interconnected issues
> > raised by Husain’s Gaja Gamini project and the public discourse that has
> > surrounded it: (i) the problematics of the female ‘muse’; or, should one
> say
> > bluntly, the gender politics of male artistic production; and (ii)
> Husain’s
> > spectacularisation of the female body of Madhuri Dixit.  Admittedly,
> linking
> > these two themes is no straightforward matter, located as they are in
> very
> > different discursive universes. However, addressing these questions might
> > lead us to understand how Husain’s infatuation with his muse is actually
> > pertinent to an understanding of the public controversies in which he has
> > become so conspicuously embroiled in recent years.
> >
> > Patricia UBEROI was formerly Professor of Social Change and Development
> at
> > the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, and Honorary Director of the
> > Institute of Chinese Studies, Centre for the Study of Developing
> Societies,
> > Delhi. She has published widely in the fields of family, kinship, gender,
> > sexuality and popular culture with reference to both India and China. In
> > addition to her book Freedom and Destiny: Gender, Family and Popular
> Culture
> > in India (2006), she has edited Family, Kinship and Marriage in India
> > (1993), Social Reform, Sexuality and the State (1996), Tradition,
> Pluralism
> > and Identity (co-ed., 1999), Anthropology in the East:  Founders of
> Indian
> > Sociology and Anthropology (co-ed., 2007), Marriage, Migration and Gender
> > (co-ed, 2008) and Rise of the Asian Giants:  Dragon-Elephant Tango
> (2008).
> >
> > (The JB MRC is supported by funds from the SRTT.)
> >
> >
> >
> >
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