M.F. Husain's case is a proof that Hindus are not as crazy as Moslims because Moslims went berserk worldwide, protesting, vandalizing, beating up other people and and also killing some just because a Danish Newspaper had published a Cartoon showing Turban of Prophet Mohammad looking like a Bomb.
Mr. Husain, did a lot worse than that by showing a Hindu goddess nude in his Painting. No Hindu killed him. He died rich of an old ripe age of 84. If you Hindu Haters are so worried that India does not have have enough Show Rooms for his Paintings, tell us, how many showrooms 44 Moslim Countries of the world have that Moslim Painter?
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--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> A Portrait of India's Intolerance Country's speech restrictions didn't allow
> M.F. Husain to paint in peace.
>
> By SALIL TRIPATHI
>
> The Wall Street Journal – June 14, 2011
>
> Maqbool Fida Husain was India's most celebrated painter, and his death in
> London last week was front-page news across the subcontinent. However,
> toward the end of his life, Husain had trouble finding galleries willing to
> show his work. He lived in Dubai, Doha or London for most of the last two
> decades because he couldn't paint in peace in his own country, even becoming
> a Qatari national last year.
>
> Husain's story says much about modern India. The troubles started in 1996,
> when the magazine Vichar Mimansa ("Discussion of Thoughts") published a
> decades-old sketch that showed a nude Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of
> learning. That discovery electrified Hindu activists, who began filing
> lawsuits against the painter for hurting their sentiments. These activists
> were able to persecute Husain by taking advantage of laws intended to
> prevent the incitement of religious hatred. Though the Indian constitution
> guarantees freedom of expression, it allows "reasonable restrictions" to
> safeguard "the interests of the sovereignty and integrity" of the country
> and "public order, decency or morality." The penal code makes it a crime "to
> outrage religious feelings" and also outlaws "promoting enmity" between
> different groups on the basis of religion, race, place of birth, residence,
> language—and the all-inclusive "etc."
>
> Fringe Hindu groups claimed to have been offended by the artist's work, and
> pressured the authorities to initiate proceedings. Indian courts often throw
> such cases out, but there were multiple cases against him. When a few of
> them reached the Delhi High Court on appeal, it ruled in Husain's favor. So
> did the Supreme Court in a similar case. But the court judgments did not
> stem the tide of vitriol. Vigilantes continued to file cases against him,
> attacked his works and damaged the studio of a television network that
> polled its readers on whether Husain should be given India's highest
> civilian honor.
>
> An artist with weaker convictions would have stopped painting altogether,
> but Husain continued to portray the many colors of this pluralist democracy.
> Born around 1915, he got his artistic start painting cinema posters.
> Formally trained at the prestigious Sir Jamshedji Jeejeebhoy School of Art
> in Bombay, he was an integral member of the Progressive Artists' Group,
> which brought together leading modernists soon after India's independence in
> 1947. He painted horses all his life; his other recurring themes included
> celebration of Indian music, Sufi art and the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata.
> Since 1996, he continued to paint Hindu deities as well as paintings
> inspired by Bollywood star Madhuri Dixit, whom he called his muse.
>
> But he couldn't go on very long. At one count last decade, there were
> hundreds of cases pending against him across India, and some death threats
> too. Instead of defending Husain's right to express his imagination, the
> authorities did nothing, actually adding to pressure from activists. In
> 2006, several state governments decided to prosecute him for outraging
> feelings after he painted "Bharat Mata" (Mother India) in the nude. The
> controversy scared those who otherwise would have been happy to exhibit his
> work, including the organizers of the 2008 Indian Art Fair in Delhi, which
> had the works of 300 artists but not Husain's.Exasperated by the lack of
> support from the Indian state and the continued harassment—both physical and
> legal—Husain gave up. He was living outside India anyway, and last year he
> publicly renounced his Indian citizenship.
>
> Hindu nationalists justified their attacks on Husain's art by noting that
> the Indian state has allowed other faiths to block literature that has
> offended them. India was the first country in the world to ban Salman
> Rushdie's "Satanic Verses." Muslim activists last year chopped off the hand
> of T.J. Joseph, a university professor in Kerala, because he gave an exam
> question that was deemed insulting to Muhammad. Christian groups have
> protested films like "The Da Vinci Code" and "The Last Temptation of
> Christ."
>
> To be sure, a large number of books get published in India, hundreds of
> films get made and galleries hold many exhibitions without incident. But
> artists like Husain inhabit speech at the edge of acceptability, speech that
> challenges conventional thought. The controversial sketch of Saraswati, for
> example, is an elegant white-on-black line drawing, which makes the viewer
> reflect on the old Indian tradition of "nirakara," or formlessness. Yet
> instead of questioning themselves when provoked, extremist Hindus, like
> extremists from other faiths, have reacted with anger.The trouble is that
> along with such sectarian anger comes New Delhi's timidity in protecting
> individual rights. Hindus have every right to peacefully protest Husain's
> depictions, but Indian law allows them to become vigilantes who chill all
> expression.
>
> India will now try to claim Husain as a son of its soil. Someone will
> suggest issuing a postage stamp in his name. Others will talk about naming
> roads or art galleries after him. A more fitting tribute would be to revoke
> those provisions of Indian law that drove Husain out of the country. The
> next M.F. Husain should not have to curb his imagination or dream smaller
> dreams.
> —Mr. Tripathi, a writer in London, is the author of "Offense: The Hindu
> Case" (Seagull, 2009).
>
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303714704576383173779641758.html?KEYWORDS=SALIL+TRIPATHI
>
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