06-15-2007, 06:54 PM
A strange argument - Media Watch - M.V. Kamath
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The question is: what are these Chandra Mohan paintings like? India Today (May 28) gave a description of them to its credit. Reported the weekly: "One of the paintings by Mohan shows Christ on the Cross with his hands and legs visible, and phallus hanging out, spewing semen into a commode. Another one is of Durga killing a baby emerging from her womb, with a trident. The third painting shows Virat Swaroop of Lord Vishnu holding his own phallus, surrounded by several other penises. The fourth painting that is in line of fire shows a Shivling surrounded by phalluses from which Mohan's own bust emerges".
One would like our intellectuals â and our Christian friends especially to tell â what they think of a picture of Christ drawn in a manner described above. Had not a BJP activist protested against such a painting, our missionaries would have gone on a propaganda strike against Modi for insulting Christ. And that painting is an insult to Christ that no sane person should support.
Chandra Mohan is defended by some artists on the grounds that "nudity is a part of the syllabus of Fine Arts". No one questions that. There are beautiful nude paintings which it would be a delight to possess. But showing Christ with his "phallus hanging out, spewing semen into a commode" is not art. It is desecration, pure and simple and it is shocking to realise that no Christian has taken objection to it. Modi and his government deserve to be congratulated for getting Chandra-mohan arrested.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>According to an National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) report, quoted in The Pioneer (May 13), the worst hit state in India is Uttar Pradesh with 68 (sixty eight) fake encounters in 2003-2004 and 54 in 2004-2005. The figures for the two years in Congress-led Andhra Pradesh were nine and five. Gujarat reported only one in 2004-2005 and the NHRC is not a sleeping organisation by any account. </span>It would have kept a special eye on Gujarat.
Also, for the information of Mr. Kuldip Nayar and people like him Congress-ruled Maharashtra had 29 cases of fake encounters. Fake encounters are by definition to be condemned. Nobody ever questions that. The Gujarat fake encounter involves a Muslim Mohd. Sohrabuddin and his wife Kausarbi. Kausarbi was disposed of in especially sickening circumstances. But what is the root cause of fake encounters? One is delay in the delivery of justice. Another is corruption, with murderers, terrorists getting away after liberally bribing the police.
Some of the police in Maharashtra who permitted bombs and arms being unloaded openly in small ports have recently been tried and sentenced â after more than a decade. Trying perpetually to make the BJP a scapegoat does no credit to our secular columnists. It only eats into their credibility. Gujarat, sure is against conversion. So are millions of Hindus, including Congressmen of all description. <b>But even the most anti-missionary Hindu would not like to see Christ being dishonoured publicly, as the Fine Arts student at Vadodara's M.S. University Fine Arts Department has done.</b>
Columnists are free to damn Modi. That is their privilege. But in the Chandra Mohan case, the Gujarat government is absolutely in the right. One cannot permit Christ to be dishonoured in the name of artistic freedom. There has to be a limit to the media spewing nonsense to cheat the public.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The question is: what are these Chandra Mohan paintings like? India Today (May 28) gave a description of them to its credit. Reported the weekly: "One of the paintings by Mohan shows Christ on the Cross with his hands and legs visible, and phallus hanging out, spewing semen into a commode. Another one is of Durga killing a baby emerging from her womb, with a trident. The third painting shows Virat Swaroop of Lord Vishnu holding his own phallus, surrounded by several other penises. The fourth painting that is in line of fire shows a Shivling surrounded by phalluses from which Mohan's own bust emerges".
One would like our intellectuals â and our Christian friends especially to tell â what they think of a picture of Christ drawn in a manner described above. Had not a BJP activist protested against such a painting, our missionaries would have gone on a propaganda strike against Modi for insulting Christ. And that painting is an insult to Christ that no sane person should support.
Chandra Mohan is defended by some artists on the grounds that "nudity is a part of the syllabus of Fine Arts". No one questions that. There are beautiful nude paintings which it would be a delight to possess. But showing Christ with his "phallus hanging out, spewing semen into a commode" is not art. It is desecration, pure and simple and it is shocking to realise that no Christian has taken objection to it. Modi and his government deserve to be congratulated for getting Chandra-mohan arrested.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>According to an National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) report, quoted in The Pioneer (May 13), the worst hit state in India is Uttar Pradesh with 68 (sixty eight) fake encounters in 2003-2004 and 54 in 2004-2005. The figures for the two years in Congress-led Andhra Pradesh were nine and five. Gujarat reported only one in 2004-2005 and the NHRC is not a sleeping organisation by any account. </span>It would have kept a special eye on Gujarat.
Also, for the information of Mr. Kuldip Nayar and people like him Congress-ruled Maharashtra had 29 cases of fake encounters. Fake encounters are by definition to be condemned. Nobody ever questions that. The Gujarat fake encounter involves a Muslim Mohd. Sohrabuddin and his wife Kausarbi. Kausarbi was disposed of in especially sickening circumstances. But what is the root cause of fake encounters? One is delay in the delivery of justice. Another is corruption, with murderers, terrorists getting away after liberally bribing the police.
Some of the police in Maharashtra who permitted bombs and arms being unloaded openly in small ports have recently been tried and sentenced â after more than a decade. Trying perpetually to make the BJP a scapegoat does no credit to our secular columnists. It only eats into their credibility. Gujarat, sure is against conversion. So are millions of Hindus, including Congressmen of all description. <b>But even the most anti-missionary Hindu would not like to see Christ being dishonoured publicly, as the Fine Arts student at Vadodara's M.S. University Fine Arts Department has done.</b>
Columnists are free to damn Modi. That is their privilege. But in the Chandra Mohan case, the Gujarat government is absolutely in the right. One cannot permit Christ to be dishonoured in the name of artistic freedom. There has to be a limit to the media spewing nonsense to cheat the public.
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