<!--QuoteBegin-acharya+Feb 24 2008, 06:39 PM-->QUOTE(acharya @ Feb 24 2008, 06:39 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Indiaâs litany of protests seen as much ado about nothing</b>
âMost of these protests are not really necessary,â said Delhi University sociologist [COLOR=blue]In addition, the countryâs most celebrated artist, MF Husain, has been in self-imposed exile in Dubai and London for two years following protests by hardline Hindu groups opposed to his paintings of nude goddesses.[right][snapback]78926[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->What liberties with the truth! Apparently whoever wrote this report doesn't appear to (want to) know the Indian courts want MFH for entirely different offenses than slighting a religion, and that MFH doesn't want to return as he doesn't want to pay up for crimes against the LAW of the land. But psecularados may be offended by small things like the truth that MFH is a petty criminal rather than a persecuted 'artist'.
Come to that, what's up with that line of " the countryâs most celebrated artist, MF Husain". No one but the elitist psecularados celebrates his ... pseudo-toddler's scrawl anyway, so it's obvious that the psecularados only count their own opinions in pronouncing him the "country's most celebrated...". Well, that certainly doesn't say anything positive about the level of 'understanding' the psecularados celebrating him have, as they are obviously woefully ignorant about art altogether. Rather obvious now that they believe art is defined by the very little <i>they</i> could accomplish, if ever they bothered to grab a brush themselves. Anything more stylistic, tasteful, technically well-executed, imaginative, original - or anything the least bit inspiring - would be too much for their puny petty thoughts to comprehend. MFH is all they can appreciate or even understand. How truly sad they are. Nah nah, no sympathy for the psecularados, their life is a mirror of their taste in art. So they are welcome to MFH; their level of 'art' appreciation deserves no better. Junk attracts junk they say. (At least they haven't called MFH the country's 'greatest' artist - that would only have been the most pathetic and offensive statement about India EVER, besides being ridiculously untrue.)
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<!--QuoteBegin-acharya+Feb 24 2008, 06:39 PM-->QUOTE(acharya @ Feb 24 2008, 06:39 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->In 2006, one extremist Hindu group offered an 11.5-million-dollar reward for the assassination of the 93-year-old painter.[right][snapback]78926[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Is this merely more drivel or is there any truth to this? Did anyone (who?) call for the assassination of MFH? (And if any did, I don't know why they didn't call for death to terrorists like Afzal G instead, when this Afzal should long be lawfully dead anyway. I'm no fan of capital punishment - but I'm slowly turning around to considering capital punishment for mass-murdering terrorists.)
Coming back to MFH, wouldn't it be better to wait around for the old loser (93) to pop off? Looks like he won't be around many decades anyway and is likely to disintegrate due to natural causes: first his tiny heart (assuming he had one) will shrivel up, then his innards... oh... someone may be eating. Sorry. What 'Bad Taste' on my part. For those not eating: think 'Brain Dead' (=movie) <!--emo&
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âMost of these protests are not really necessary,â said Delhi University sociologist [COLOR=blue]In addition, the countryâs most celebrated artist, MF Husain, has been in self-imposed exile in Dubai and London for two years following protests by hardline Hindu groups opposed to his paintings of nude goddesses.[right][snapback]78926[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->What liberties with the truth! Apparently whoever wrote this report doesn't appear to (want to) know the Indian courts want MFH for entirely different offenses than slighting a religion, and that MFH doesn't want to return as he doesn't want to pay up for crimes against the LAW of the land. But psecularados may be offended by small things like the truth that MFH is a petty criminal rather than a persecuted 'artist'.
Come to that, what's up with that line of " the countryâs most celebrated artist, MF Husain". No one but the elitist psecularados celebrates his ... pseudo-toddler's scrawl anyway, so it's obvious that the psecularados only count their own opinions in pronouncing him the "country's most celebrated...". Well, that certainly doesn't say anything positive about the level of 'understanding' the psecularados celebrating him have, as they are obviously woefully ignorant about art altogether. Rather obvious now that they believe art is defined by the very little <i>they</i> could accomplish, if ever they bothered to grab a brush themselves. Anything more stylistic, tasteful, technically well-executed, imaginative, original - or anything the least bit inspiring - would be too much for their puny petty thoughts to comprehend. MFH is all they can appreciate or even understand. How truly sad they are. Nah nah, no sympathy for the psecularados, their life is a mirror of their taste in art. So they are welcome to MFH; their level of 'art' appreciation deserves no better. Junk attracts junk they say. (At least they haven't called MFH the country's 'greatest' artist - that would only have been the most pathetic and offensive statement about India EVER, besides being ridiculously untrue.)
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<!--QuoteBegin-acharya+Feb 24 2008, 06:39 PM-->QUOTE(acharya @ Feb 24 2008, 06:39 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->In 2006, one extremist Hindu group offered an 11.5-million-dollar reward for the assassination of the 93-year-old painter.[right][snapback]78926[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Is this merely more drivel or is there any truth to this? Did anyone (who?) call for the assassination of MFH? (And if any did, I don't know why they didn't call for death to terrorists like Afzal G instead, when this Afzal should long be lawfully dead anyway. I'm no fan of capital punishment - but I'm slowly turning around to considering capital punishment for mass-murdering terrorists.)
Coming back to MFH, wouldn't it be better to wait around for the old loser (93) to pop off? Looks like he won't be around many decades anyway and is likely to disintegrate due to natural causes: first his tiny heart (assuming he had one) will shrivel up, then his innards... oh... someone may be eating. Sorry. What 'Bad Taste' on my part. For those not eating: think 'Brain Dead' (=movie) <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->