By: V. Sundaram
Beauty and sublimity of Raja Ravi Varma versus the beastly vulgarity M F Hussain
By conferring the Raja Ravi Varma Award upon Hussain, the Government of Kerala have given a death blow to the sacred and revered memory of Raja Ravi Varma as one of the greatest exponents of modern Hindu art. People all over the country are really enraged to hear the news of the Kerala government conferring this wholly undeserved distinction upon Hussain.
M A Baby has announced that the Raja Ravi Verma Award would be presented to MF Hussain on his birthday on 17 September, 2007. This award carries a cash prize of Rs 1.25 lakh, besides a citation and a plaque. The Marxist Government of Kerala saw to it that the jury for the selection of the awardee was specially filled with known anti-Hindu baiters and presided over by the well-known pseudo-secular artist. As most of the nude paintings of MF Hussain on Bharath Mata and Hindu Gods and Goddesses are deliberately calculated to hurt the time-honoured religious feelings of more than 800 millions of Hindus in majority in India and millions of Hindus abroad, these members of the jury shamelessly gave the award to Hussain.
If Hussain wants to have unlimited freedom for his creative expression to depict sacred Hindu Gods and Goddesses in a vulgar and beastly manner, I too must be given the same intellectual and journalistic freedom to describe Hussain in the ‘same artistic manner.’
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