03-12-2008, 02:09 AM
The sordid truth behind Gautier's exhibition in Chennai
From: [edited]
Date: Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:01 AM
Subject: The sordid truth behind Gautier's exhibition in Chennai
I donât know who organizes Gautier's exhibitions in other cities but the exhibition on Aurangazeb in Chennai was organized by three women with no experience in these things but with tons of commitment to work for a public cause. These three women are aged 65, 42 and 27. The 27 year old has a 6 month infant. Keep this in mind and also that like all worthwhile causes they were getting nothing out of this.
After the inauguration ceremony attended by Francois himself and his good friend
S Gurumurthy, Francois left Chennai leaving these women to manage. After 3 days, the exhibition ran into trouble. The hall authorities closed the exhibition without warning on the morning of the 6th even as school children were standing outside the gates to come in.
There was police deployment. Upon enquiry by these women as to why the children were being turned away the police and the hall authority Palaniappan told the women volunteers that they had received two letters from two Muslims asking for the exhibition to be shut down.
The women called Gautier and asked him to come to Chennai to deal with the situation and he told them he would be there by the afternoon.
Assistant Commissioner of police Murali from the local police station stomped into the hall and asked the women to remove two paintings if they wanted the exhibition to remain open -- Aurngazeb destroying the Somnath temple and the Mathura Keshavrai temple.
The 3 women refused and told him that Gautier alone could take this decision and Murali must wait for Gautier to return. Murali stomped off and the exhibition was kept open again and children began to come in.
At 3 in the afternoon, the bogus nawab, mabadaulat.....whatever whatever nawab of Arcot, Prince Mohammad Ali sailed into the hall and told the women the exhibition was false, not authentic, fabricated, with a hidden agenda to disturb communal harmony, so âshut it down immediately; if you donât shut it down I know how to get it doneâ.
An hour later, a Muslim employee from Tamilan TV visited the exhibition and immediately began to call local Muslims over the cell phone asking them to assemble at the venue. It was all quite open, nothing secretive here.
A person by the name Sadagopan rushed to AC Murali and told him about what he had overheard but he scumbag Murali treated the warning lightly.
Within a few minutes a Muslim mob had assembled at the venue and began to demonstrate and protest. They told the three women to shut the exhibition down immediately or face the consequences the next day (Friday) after Friday namaz.
The police were standing by and watching. In all this noise, Malathy alone was upstairs.
Gautier was already there. Murali was asking for the exhibition to be shut down and when he failed to persuade the AC to see reason, Francois went away from the venue on the pretext that he was going to see the Commissioner, leaving these three women alone with the raging lunatic. Gautier didnât help matters when on his way out he allegedly made some indiscreet remark about Murali's mustache to his face
An enraged Murali, without the courage to take on a foreigner and even less courage to take on the Muslim mob, however found it easier to demonstrate his manhood to these three women.
He stomped upstairs and shouting âthe audacity of the white dog to speak to me thusâ,
he pulled a painting from down the wall and smashed it on the floor, splintering the glass.
Hearing the commotion upstairs the other two men and two men visitors rushed up too to see the woman volunteer leading with Murali with folded hands not to damage the paintings.
But Murali and his subordinate Sudesan began to abuse the women and started to
pull all exhibits from the walls and damaged several of the paintings and exhibits.
(Also see this & this).
âThat white dog is a terrorist and you women are his associatesâ he shouted making them sound like gangsters molls. âI am arresting all of you -- you, you and you. Give me your mobiles all of you, you cannot use them, you cannot call anyoneâ. The young lady voluteer rushed away with her infant son, and after implying the women to be Gautierâs associates and worse, Murali hustled the other two women and another woman visitor and two other men -- one of them 74 years old. Murali kicked the old man down and thrashed him with his lathi.
He hustled the 3 women into the police van at 7.20 in the evening. The Muslim mob standing by the gates watching the whole thing in glee shouted âallah o aakbarâ as the women were driven away.
Obviously the scum called Nawab of Arcot pulled strings at the highest quarters and these alternate channels by-passed the Commissioner of Police, the DGP, the ADGP law and order and issued instructions directly to scumbag Murali to frighten the women, shut the exhibition down and arrest at least one of them as a salutary and exemplary measure.
I am certain because within 5 minutes of the arrest I was called and informed. I was tragically away from Chennai on that day and was sitting in the Mumbai airport. I immediately called the Joint Commissioner and told him how three women, all aged, had been arrested at 7.30 in the evening and were being taken away. He didnât believe me; I shouted at him to verify for him self and also told him that I wanted the women out of the police station within the next 10 minutes. He assured me that if this were true he would see to it that the women were released immediately, and he did. The women were out by 8.
You cannot remove women for enquiry in a police van after 6 in the evening. If you are arresting them you have to give an arrest memo. And you must have a woman police officer or constable present.
None of these guidelines were followed. The b@st@rd didnât expect to get a call from the JC. He had actually issued instructions barely a minuet before the JC called him to file an FIR against the woman volunteer under section 153.
Now this tale of shame --
Gautier had abandoned these women, Hindu organizations, in spite of knowing that trouble was brewing, did not send their cadre to be present at the venue to deal with the trouble. The women were alone; the 2 men arrested along with the women were just as petrified. None of them was thinking. They went along with the rascal Murali because although they knew the law, they were too terrified to send the asshole packing.
Gautier said he was going to see the Commissioner. He did not come back to the venue after his meeting. We do not know where he went. He did not keep track of the events thereafter; else he would have known that the women had been arrested. He didnât go to the police station either. No one went to the police station.
I want all of you to realize and feel the humiliation and the fright of these three women. The b@st@rd Murali also issued a veiled threat to the woman volunteer about impounding her daughter's passport. I am only surprised that he didnât arrest the infant.
After the trauma and the humiliation, the lady volunteer called Gurumurthy to express her distress and in the hope that he may offer words of solace. All that Gurumurthy could tell her was, âyou should not have involved Gautier in the trouble. You should have constituted an organizing committee and you ought to have known that you cannot organize such meets without prior police permissionâ.
Bravo, bravo. Wrong as usual and wrong on every count. If Gautier and Gurumurthy can be present at the inauguration in full view of the media, surely they can also deal with the problem. Or is arrest and humiliation the lot of willing Indians who are ready to do chaprasi work of the high and the mighty?
And no it was not for the women voluteers to know about prior police permission, the hall authorities have to tell those that are renting the hall to seek police permission for conducting meetings and seminars and exhibitions. And even if it was an oversight, it was because of ignorance. And not to commiserate with these women and not to have lifted a finger then or thereafter has me speechless. If only the gentleman had had half the consideration for these women that he had had for a well-preserved Gautier!!
PS: I am holding a public meeting on Thursday the 13th on the issue. I promise to settle all cores on that day. I owe these women and the bogus nawab and allah o akbar this much.
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Police appeasement of a handful of Muslims
To see the pictures please click on each of the following links:
1. Handful of Muslim Fundamentalists:
http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii33/svbadri/?action
=view¤t=HandfulofMuslimfanaticscausetrouble.jpg
Just a handful of Muslim fundamentalists outside Lalith Kala Academy, Chennai on the 06th March was enough for the Police establishment to crack down on a great exhibition.
2. Arrest against all norms:
http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii33/svbadri/?action
=view¤t=HinduladyvolunteersarrestedatHalfPa.jpg
The arrest of women beyong sundown flouting all norms and guidelines of arrest. ACP Murali forces them to declare in writing that they were taken to police station only for inquiry. This was after his senior policeman was made to intervene in the matter.
3. Elderly lady arrested beyond 7 P.M.:
http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii33/svbadri/?action
=view¤t=ElderlyladyHinduvolunteerbravingpol.jpg
They have never seen a police station in their lives. They come from highly respected families. And this is what is the punishment for being born as Hindus in Hindu India.
4. ACP Murali abusing young volunteer:
http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii33/svbadri/?action
=view¤t=YoungHinduladyvolunteerverballyabus.jpg
ACP Murali dared to call the young Hindu volunteer as "Terrorist". He abused her that she was assisting the "white dog", alluded to Francois Gautier, quite a racist remark, indeed.
5. Police ransack the exhibition premises:
http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii33/svbadri/?action
=view¤t=Policeransackthepremises.jpg
Under order from ACP Murali, Police continued to ransack the FACT Exhibition premises.
6. Police Follow Their Leader:
http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii33/svbadri/?action
=view¤t=PolicefollowtheactionsoftheirACPMur.jpg
The police, under the order of their leader, ACP Murali bring down all the exhibits, destroying quite a few.
7. ACP Murali brings down exhibits and destroys them:
http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii33/svbadri/?action
=view¤t=ACPMuralidestroyingexhibitsdespitep.jpg
ACP Murali brings down the exhibits despite protests from Hindu volunteers. He is out to prove his devotion to the Muslim fundamentalists.
8. Police rushing to appease Muslims:
http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii33/svbadri/?action
=view¤t=PolicerushingtoappeaseMuslimfundame.jpg
The police rush into the LKA to appease muslims. Afterall, these muslims consider themselves the successors of Aurangazeb, the moghul ruler who was known for the number of Hindu Mandirs he razed to ground and the number of Hindus he killed.
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See the picures as an album:
http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii33/sv...?albumview=grid
http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii33/svbadri/
See them as a slide show:
http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii33/sv...mview=slideshow
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From: [edited]
Date: Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:01 AM
Subject: The sordid truth behind Gautier's exhibition in Chennai
I donât know who organizes Gautier's exhibitions in other cities but the exhibition on Aurangazeb in Chennai was organized by three women with no experience in these things but with tons of commitment to work for a public cause. These three women are aged 65, 42 and 27. The 27 year old has a 6 month infant. Keep this in mind and also that like all worthwhile causes they were getting nothing out of this.
After the inauguration ceremony attended by Francois himself and his good friend
S Gurumurthy, Francois left Chennai leaving these women to manage. After 3 days, the exhibition ran into trouble. The hall authorities closed the exhibition without warning on the morning of the 6th even as school children were standing outside the gates to come in.
There was police deployment. Upon enquiry by these women as to why the children were being turned away the police and the hall authority Palaniappan told the women volunteers that they had received two letters from two Muslims asking for the exhibition to be shut down.
The women called Gautier and asked him to come to Chennai to deal with the situation and he told them he would be there by the afternoon.
Assistant Commissioner of police Murali from the local police station stomped into the hall and asked the women to remove two paintings if they wanted the exhibition to remain open -- Aurngazeb destroying the Somnath temple and the Mathura Keshavrai temple.
The 3 women refused and told him that Gautier alone could take this decision and Murali must wait for Gautier to return. Murali stomped off and the exhibition was kept open again and children began to come in.
At 3 in the afternoon, the bogus nawab, mabadaulat.....whatever whatever nawab of Arcot, Prince Mohammad Ali sailed into the hall and told the women the exhibition was false, not authentic, fabricated, with a hidden agenda to disturb communal harmony, so âshut it down immediately; if you donât shut it down I know how to get it doneâ.
An hour later, a Muslim employee from Tamilan TV visited the exhibition and immediately began to call local Muslims over the cell phone asking them to assemble at the venue. It was all quite open, nothing secretive here.
A person by the name Sadagopan rushed to AC Murali and told him about what he had overheard but he scumbag Murali treated the warning lightly.
Within a few minutes a Muslim mob had assembled at the venue and began to demonstrate and protest. They told the three women to shut the exhibition down immediately or face the consequences the next day (Friday) after Friday namaz.
The police were standing by and watching. In all this noise, Malathy alone was upstairs.
Gautier was already there. Murali was asking for the exhibition to be shut down and when he failed to persuade the AC to see reason, Francois went away from the venue on the pretext that he was going to see the Commissioner, leaving these three women alone with the raging lunatic. Gautier didnât help matters when on his way out he allegedly made some indiscreet remark about Murali's mustache to his face
An enraged Murali, without the courage to take on a foreigner and even less courage to take on the Muslim mob, however found it easier to demonstrate his manhood to these three women.
He stomped upstairs and shouting âthe audacity of the white dog to speak to me thusâ,
he pulled a painting from down the wall and smashed it on the floor, splintering the glass.
Hearing the commotion upstairs the other two men and two men visitors rushed up too to see the woman volunteer leading with Murali with folded hands not to damage the paintings.
But Murali and his subordinate Sudesan began to abuse the women and started to
pull all exhibits from the walls and damaged several of the paintings and exhibits.
(Also see this & this).
âThat white dog is a terrorist and you women are his associatesâ he shouted making them sound like gangsters molls. âI am arresting all of you -- you, you and you. Give me your mobiles all of you, you cannot use them, you cannot call anyoneâ. The young lady voluteer rushed away with her infant son, and after implying the women to be Gautierâs associates and worse, Murali hustled the other two women and another woman visitor and two other men -- one of them 74 years old. Murali kicked the old man down and thrashed him with his lathi.
He hustled the 3 women into the police van at 7.20 in the evening. The Muslim mob standing by the gates watching the whole thing in glee shouted âallah o aakbarâ as the women were driven away.
Obviously the scum called Nawab of Arcot pulled strings at the highest quarters and these alternate channels by-passed the Commissioner of Police, the DGP, the ADGP law and order and issued instructions directly to scumbag Murali to frighten the women, shut the exhibition down and arrest at least one of them as a salutary and exemplary measure.
I am certain because within 5 minutes of the arrest I was called and informed. I was tragically away from Chennai on that day and was sitting in the Mumbai airport. I immediately called the Joint Commissioner and told him how three women, all aged, had been arrested at 7.30 in the evening and were being taken away. He didnât believe me; I shouted at him to verify for him self and also told him that I wanted the women out of the police station within the next 10 minutes. He assured me that if this were true he would see to it that the women were released immediately, and he did. The women were out by 8.
You cannot remove women for enquiry in a police van after 6 in the evening. If you are arresting them you have to give an arrest memo. And you must have a woman police officer or constable present.
None of these guidelines were followed. The b@st@rd didnât expect to get a call from the JC. He had actually issued instructions barely a minuet before the JC called him to file an FIR against the woman volunteer under section 153.
Now this tale of shame --
Gautier had abandoned these women, Hindu organizations, in spite of knowing that trouble was brewing, did not send their cadre to be present at the venue to deal with the trouble. The women were alone; the 2 men arrested along with the women were just as petrified. None of them was thinking. They went along with the rascal Murali because although they knew the law, they were too terrified to send the asshole packing.
Gautier said he was going to see the Commissioner. He did not come back to the venue after his meeting. We do not know where he went. He did not keep track of the events thereafter; else he would have known that the women had been arrested. He didnât go to the police station either. No one went to the police station.
I want all of you to realize and feel the humiliation and the fright of these three women. The b@st@rd Murali also issued a veiled threat to the woman volunteer about impounding her daughter's passport. I am only surprised that he didnât arrest the infant.
After the trauma and the humiliation, the lady volunteer called Gurumurthy to express her distress and in the hope that he may offer words of solace. All that Gurumurthy could tell her was, âyou should not have involved Gautier in the trouble. You should have constituted an organizing committee and you ought to have known that you cannot organize such meets without prior police permissionâ.
Bravo, bravo. Wrong as usual and wrong on every count. If Gautier and Gurumurthy can be present at the inauguration in full view of the media, surely they can also deal with the problem. Or is arrest and humiliation the lot of willing Indians who are ready to do chaprasi work of the high and the mighty?
And no it was not for the women voluteers to know about prior police permission, the hall authorities have to tell those that are renting the hall to seek police permission for conducting meetings and seminars and exhibitions. And even if it was an oversight, it was because of ignorance. And not to commiserate with these women and not to have lifted a finger then or thereafter has me speechless. If only the gentleman had had half the consideration for these women that he had had for a well-preserved Gautier!!
PS: I am holding a public meeting on Thursday the 13th on the issue. I promise to settle all cores on that day. I owe these women and the bogus nawab and allah o akbar this much.
* * *
Police appeasement of a handful of Muslims
To see the pictures please click on each of the following links:
1. Handful of Muslim Fundamentalists:
http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii33/svbadri/?action
=view¤t=HandfulofMuslimfanaticscausetrouble.jpg
Just a handful of Muslim fundamentalists outside Lalith Kala Academy, Chennai on the 06th March was enough for the Police establishment to crack down on a great exhibition.
2. Arrest against all norms:
http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii33/svbadri/?action
=view¤t=HinduladyvolunteersarrestedatHalfPa.jpg
The arrest of women beyong sundown flouting all norms and guidelines of arrest. ACP Murali forces them to declare in writing that they were taken to police station only for inquiry. This was after his senior policeman was made to intervene in the matter.
3. Elderly lady arrested beyond 7 P.M.:
http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii33/svbadri/?action
=view¤t=ElderlyladyHinduvolunteerbravingpol.jpg
They have never seen a police station in their lives. They come from highly respected families. And this is what is the punishment for being born as Hindus in Hindu India.
4. ACP Murali abusing young volunteer:
http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii33/svbadri/?action
=view¤t=YoungHinduladyvolunteerverballyabus.jpg
ACP Murali dared to call the young Hindu volunteer as "Terrorist". He abused her that she was assisting the "white dog", alluded to Francois Gautier, quite a racist remark, indeed.
5. Police ransack the exhibition premises:
http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii33/svbadri/?action
=view¤t=Policeransackthepremises.jpg
Under order from ACP Murali, Police continued to ransack the FACT Exhibition premises.
6. Police Follow Their Leader:
http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii33/svbadri/?action
=view¤t=PolicefollowtheactionsoftheirACPMur.jpg
The police, under the order of their leader, ACP Murali bring down all the exhibits, destroying quite a few.
7. ACP Murali brings down exhibits and destroys them:
http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii33/svbadri/?action
=view¤t=ACPMuralidestroyingexhibitsdespitep.jpg
ACP Murali brings down the exhibits despite protests from Hindu volunteers. He is out to prove his devotion to the Muslim fundamentalists.
8. Police rushing to appease Muslims:
http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii33/svbadri/?action
=view¤t=PolicerushingtoappeaseMuslimfundame.jpg
The police rush into the LKA to appease muslims. Afterall, these muslims consider themselves the successors of Aurangazeb, the moghul ruler who was known for the number of Hindu Mandirs he razed to ground and the number of Hindus he killed.
- - - - - -
See the picures as an album:
http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii33/sv...?albumview=grid
http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii33/svbadri/
See them as a slide show:
http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii33/sv...mview=slideshow
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