06-06-2006, 03:54 AM
email to New Humanist editorial of 25 May 2006
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RPA One Gower Street
London WC1E 6HD
Dear editor,
This is in reference to your editorial inventing a meaningless phrase: 'mildly erotic'. I did not realise that to be a new humanist, one has to grade eroticism.
Has the new humanist seen the titles written in Hindi on many 'mildly erotic' so-called art pieces?
Are you promoting some self-styled 'academics' who are concerned about 'authoritarianism' and claiming to be champions of 'freedom of _expression' ? If so, you should pause and introspect on Hindu traditions and history. Please read the book: Dhama, B.L, 1927, A Guide to Khajuraho, Bombay, Times of India Press, 66 pp. (Source: Digital Library of India, http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/ )Â -- a book that was released to commemorate the visit of the then Viceroy of India to Khajuraho.
Have the new humanists also seen the links at http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=240 on the Khajuraho Group of Monuments, with UNESCO declaring Khajuraho as a World Heritage Site?
By focusing on a few sculptures on one of the temples in the Khajuraho city and calling them 'erotic', the 'academics' are indulging in denial of Hindu Human Rights. They also demonstrate their ignorance of Hindu traditions, history and are trying to impose present-day ideas of libertarianism (read: sick minds) into the past. After all, 'eroticism' is in the eye of the beholder. After all, understanding of the magnificence of a Hindu mandiram (temple) requires compassion, immersion, beyond 'academic' paper-pushing.
To compare the pornography of MF Hussain with what are considered, 'sculptures that are among the greatest masterpieces of Indian art' is an insult to every Hindu. The pornography is intended only to insult Hindu faith. Would the 'academics' and 'new humanists' feel upset if I call them 'bigots'?
Will the 'academics' commission MF Hussain to paint Aisha or Fatima using his 'erotic' styles, calling them mere beauty of nakedness?
MFH is peddling his smut to provoke the Hindu and clearly test the limits of Hindu tolerance. It is disgusting that some self-styled 'academics' and the likes of 'Lord' Meghnad Desai, don't even try to understand why millions of Hindu the world over, feel insulted. One gets the impression that insulting the Hindu is being promoted as a multi-national enterprise.
Hindu community should applaud the decision of the authorities to pull out the MFH Exhibition from Asia House Gallery. I earnestly implore the readers to listen to the reasoned 'Voice of the People petition' at http://www.hinduhumanrights.org/
Regards,
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Editor, New Humanist. webcontact@newhumanist.org.uk
RPA One Gower Street
London WC1E 6HD
Dear editor,
This is in reference to your editorial inventing a meaningless phrase: 'mildly erotic'. I did not realise that to be a new humanist, one has to grade eroticism.
Has the new humanist seen the titles written in Hindi on many 'mildly erotic' so-called art pieces?
Are you promoting some self-styled 'academics' who are concerned about 'authoritarianism' and claiming to be champions of 'freedom of _expression' ? If so, you should pause and introspect on Hindu traditions and history. Please read the book: Dhama, B.L, 1927, A Guide to Khajuraho, Bombay, Times of India Press, 66 pp. (Source: Digital Library of India, http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/ )Â -- a book that was released to commemorate the visit of the then Viceroy of India to Khajuraho.
Have the new humanists also seen the links at http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=240 on the Khajuraho Group of Monuments, with UNESCO declaring Khajuraho as a World Heritage Site?
By focusing on a few sculptures on one of the temples in the Khajuraho city and calling them 'erotic', the 'academics' are indulging in denial of Hindu Human Rights. They also demonstrate their ignorance of Hindu traditions, history and are trying to impose present-day ideas of libertarianism (read: sick minds) into the past. After all, 'eroticism' is in the eye of the beholder. After all, understanding of the magnificence of a Hindu mandiram (temple) requires compassion, immersion, beyond 'academic' paper-pushing.
To compare the pornography of MF Hussain with what are considered, 'sculptures that are among the greatest masterpieces of Indian art' is an insult to every Hindu. The pornography is intended only to insult Hindu faith. Would the 'academics' and 'new humanists' feel upset if I call them 'bigots'?
Will the 'academics' commission MF Hussain to paint Aisha or Fatima using his 'erotic' styles, calling them mere beauty of nakedness?
MFH is peddling his smut to provoke the Hindu and clearly test the limits of Hindu tolerance. It is disgusting that some self-styled 'academics' and the likes of 'Lord' Meghnad Desai, don't even try to understand why millions of Hindu the world over, feel insulted. One gets the impression that insulting the Hindu is being promoted as a multi-national enterprise.
Hindu community should applaud the decision of the authorities to pull out the MFH Exhibition from Asia House Gallery. I earnestly implore the readers to listen to the reasoned 'Voice of the People petition' at http://www.hinduhumanrights.org/
Regards,
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