Hussain abuses Hindu icons!

Vaishakh Shuddha Dashami

This refers to Mr Chandan Mitra’s article, "Why fida on Husain?". It is not just that MF Husain paints Hindu divinities as naked; it is also how he himself, directly or implicitly, interprets this nudity.

Indian ‘secularists’ protest strongly at Hindus protesting Husain’s pornographic depiction of our goddesses by claiming, as he did on Rajat Sharma’s Aap ki Adalat (September 8, 2004), that it is all a matter of aesthetics, and then he flatly refused to answer any more questions about this. Neither Sharma nor anyone in that audience dared raise an M-word — that why didn’t he apply the same "aesthetics" to icons of his own religion. ‘Secularists’ in that audience clapped when Husain explained that he’d painted Hitler in the nude because Hitler was a shaitan (Satan, devil) but didn’t insist he answer when again he refused to explain when someone asked whether the goddesses he painted naked were, therefore, shaitan too.

Husain has publicly stated he painted Hitler in the nude because Hitler was evil. Husain has never painted any Islamic icons naked. But he has painted Hindu icons, revered by millions, in the nude, that too in a provocative manner far more objectionable than the Danish cartoons, allegedly lampooning Mohammed, that had Muslims setting the non-Muslim world aflame. Many of these objectionable paintings are published in Husain, brought out by Tata Iron & Steel Co Ltd (and reproduced in Anti-Hindus by Prafull Goradia and KR Phanda). A description of three is sufficient to give readers a flavour of the "aesthetics" of the others — a naked Sita is being carried by a naked Hanuman, his erect tail between her thighs and against her genitalia; a naked Lakshmi stands behind a naked Ganesh, his U-shaped tilak becoming her genitalia; and a naked Hanuman’s erect sex organ points at a naked woman whose buttocks thrust against a naked man’s genitals.

The point is straightforward. What’s sauce for the ‘secular’ goose is clearly not sauce for the Hindu hamsa. Recall Parliament’s condemnation of the alleged anti-Islam cartoons published in Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper, as against the Delhi High Court’s support of Husain’s anti-Hindu paintings. This is Indian secularism!

Source: http://www.dailypioneer.com

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