Contemporary painting and Indian politics

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Thanks rraajjeevv for sharing the link.

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->the Dean of the Art Centre, <span style='color:red'>Prof Shivaji Panickar</span>, chose to go underground.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Is this "Shivaji" Panickar somehow related to the other better-known Panikkars : KN Panikkar - the communist VC of Sankara Sanskrit University of Kerala, or KM Panikkar 'the greatest historian'?

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Kerala’s erstwhile commie government rewarded <span style='color:red'>KN Panikkar</span> — full-time party ideologue and part-time ‘historian’ — with a comfy post-retirement job as the VC of a Sanskrit university at Kaladi. Not only did he not know a word of sanskrit, he used the usual marxist diatribe against the langauge as the langauge of ‘oppressors’. Of course, no ideological considerations come in the way of grabbing government (read tax-payer) doles, so Panikkar was one happy VC of an oppresor-language university for several years. link<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->