Contemporary painting and Indian politics

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MF Hussain may have tried to suprress the so called revivalist school of Raja Ravi Verma.

A new kind of narrative based on hindu themes in comics is already underway. and will influence hindu iconography of the future in youngsters' minds. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> Remember that these are just a beginning, and are not fully Indian.

Check the offerings in comics from Virgin comics ( http://www.virgincomics.com ).

Especially the series on "Devi", "Ramayana Reborn", "Sadhu" and "snakewoman". IMHO better art for $2.99 than MF Hussain's vulgarly expensive scrawls! <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->

You can read inside couple of these comics at:

http://comics.ign.com/articles/712/712865p1.html

and few pages at
http://www.virgincomics.com/ram_archive.html
http://virgincomics.com/N_devionstand.html
http://www.virgincomics.com/sadhu_archive.html

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