[Reader-list] Feel free, Mr. Husain. Go paint Qatari leaders

[Bipin Trivedi]

I feel pity for your level of thinking that you compare Husain painting
issue with woman rape and killing. There is no question of my concern for
the issue of woman rape and killing since it is concern of common sense that
it is always condemnable. I am least concern for judging my culture with
your eye and level of thinking.


-----Original Message-----
From: anupam chakravartty [mailto:c.anupam at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 6:45 PM
To: Bipin Trivedi
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Feel free, Mr. Husain. Go paint Qatari leaders

after babri masjid, i am sure there is a conspiracy to demolish
khajuraho also now after reading such pieces...it is a matter of shame
that some of the reader's list members are worried about the paintings
of an artist (who inspired thousands of young artists in this country
for free expression) but you do not voice your concern with equal
gusto when women are being raped and killed in the country. what makes
you think that you own this culture?



On 3/10/10, Bipin Trivedi <aliens at dataone.in> wrote:
> Thanks Pawan for posting this article.
>
> Cho Ramaswami is absolutely right by saying " All those who appreciate his
> art would now eagerly await his imaginative paintings of the leaders of
> Qatari
> society, hopefully not artistically clothed."
>
> Actually it is his dirty mind inspires him to make goddess nude pictures
and
> not the artistic mind. He is really psychic and needs psychiatric
treatment.
> However, pseudo-secular readers here will sure to oppose this article.
>
> Thanks
> Bipin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: reader-list-bounces at sarai.net [mailto:reader-list-bounces at sarai.net]
> On Behalf Of Pawan Durani
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 5:48 PM
> To: reader-list
> Subject: [Reader-list] Feel free, Mr Husain. Go paint Qatari leaders
>
> Feel free, Mr Husain. Go paint Qatari leaders
>
> March 10th, 2010
> By Cho Ramaswamy
>
>
> Now that M.F. Husain has settled in Qatar where there is total
> freedom, he is free of the shackles imposed by the Indian system on
> freedom of expression. All those who appreciate his art would now
> eagerly await his imaginative paintings of the leaders of Qatari
> society, hopefully not artistically clothed.
>
> His fans would not expect him to confine nudity to Hindu deities
> alone; it would extend to all the religions. Having already painted
> his mother, daughter and Muslim kings fully robed, Mr Husain, being
> the freed citizen that he is now in Qatar, should be prepared to
> remove those clothes. How can the artist in him be satisfied with
> seeing Saraswati and Parvati alone in the nude?
>
> Fortunately for art in the nude, the courts here cannot do anything to
> Mr Husain now that he has run away from the Indian judicial system.
> All the cases could be now buried amidst the pictures drawn by him.
> Both would mercifully go to the dustbin.
>
> I am very anxious not to get branded as communal in my thinking. I
> want to be hailed as a secularist and so I would say with all the
> force I can command that Mr Husain has the inalienable right to depict
> the Hindu deities in the most obscene manner while taking care to
> paint even non-religious Muslims fully clothed.
>
> He can claim that because he hates Hitler he painted him in the nude
> so he could humiliate him and in the same breath justify his nude
> pictures of Hindu goddesses as depiction of purity.
>
> And because I am secular, I would also assert that his not returning
> to India is only to gain freedom from the Indian fascism and not to
> avoid being apprehended by the law enforcers in this country. Being a
> liberal-minded artist, he naturally is not able to put up with the
> protests which do not harm him in any way.
>
> Shunning the Indian system and preferring the Qatar environment is not
> an act of hypocrisy but one of liberal, secular and free thought. And
> now that Mr Husain has established himself as such a stout campaigner
> for free expression, I must believe firmly that he will forcefully
> plead with his new protectors in Qatar to roll out of a bit of that
> red carpet to Taslima Nasreen, another hounded victim from the
> literary world.
>
> - Cho S. Ramaswamy is a well-known political
> analyst, actor, dramatist and editor of
> Tamil magazine Tughlak
>
> Source :
>
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/blogs/others/feel-free-mr-husain-go-paint-qat
ari-leaders-773
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