Hindu furor against Husain’s painting titled ‘Rape of India’

The Government should take serious note of denigration of Bharatmata ! – Shri. Ramesh Shinde, spokesperson, Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) 

Anti-national painter M F Husain has once again denigrated ‘Bharatmata’. No patriot will be able to tolerate such denigration. All nationalists should therefore, forget their differences and unite against Husain. HJS has already undertaken a campaign against Husain; but the Government has spared him under the guise of ‘Art’. He has once again shown his anti-nationalism by denigrating ‘Bharatmata’. The Government should take a serious note of the painting. Husain should be brought to India and cases should be fought against him. He has to be punished for his offence. The property owned by him in India should also be confiscated by the Government.  

Why should we protest against this painting ?

1. Representing India as a woman being raped, is nothing but terrible denigration. For an Indian, ‘Bharat Mata’ (Mother India) is a Goddess and not some figurative concept and showcasing her in this manner is highly outrageous and a completely unacceptable form of denigration.

2. It would be appropriate to ask MF Husain if he would have dared to make a similar painting had there been an attack on the UK, the UAE or Qatar and named it the ‘Rape of UK, UAE or Qatar’ ? (Husain has recently become a citizen of Qatar)

3. What is MF Husain’s sick fascination for having sex with animals ? Why does he repeatedly superimpose his dirty minded eroticism on Deities ?

4. Why has he split the canvas in half ? Does he want to suggest that India will spilt ? Why this divisive implication that India will crumble under attack ?

5. Why has he painted the blood that has been spilt in the colour green ? And also the two bulls with green faces. The offenders of the cowardly terrorist attacks that India is facing, are the people who are symbolized by the colour green, and not the other way around. Does he expect the Islamisation of India ?

6. India has been wounded by innumerable terrorist attacks. Instead of expressing her pain, MF Husain has humiliated her and has added insult to her injury by showing her being raped and that too with the perverted suggestion of an animal straddling her and of a man pulling at her blouse and staring at her breast.

7. If MF Husain is truly an artist (as claimed by the artist community) and that all his thoughts about being outraged by terrorism were genuine, then why does he not paint others being nude and having sex with animals ? But as we have observed he depicts only India and Hindus in this manner.

8. Thus, for these reasons this painting is unacceptable to an Indian and it hurts and rapes our sensibilities.

Questions posed to Husain’s supporters

1. Why can’t the intellectuals and the art world see this man for what he truly is ? Why do they continue to applaud his perverted endeavours and still paint him as an ‘artist’ and whitewash all the muck that he spews forth from the gutters of his mind? 

2. Has the collective mind of our social elite plummeted so deep so as to be trapped in a quagmire of convoluted perceptions that on the one hand puts men like Husain on a pedestal and on the other summarily rubbishes a call for purity and feelings of National pride?

3. That we are actually debating this issue and not taking immediate action against Husain is the very reason why India has been attacked for centuries and has instead only been hospitable to our ravaging invaders. So do we still want to continue to function in a manner that does not even recognize an assault on our collective consciousness in the form of this obnoxious painting ?