Hindutva

[Husky]

http://bharatabharati.wordpress.com/2011...autam-sen/

M.F. Husain and the assault against Hindu India – Gautam Sen

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It is amusing to observe so many ardent nationalists, who once made modest professional careers by proclaiming sympathy for Hindu interests, lining up to celebrate the departed Maqbool Fida Husain’s highly provocative depiction of venerated Hindu goddesses. None of them are evidently qualified to judge artistic merit, but are trotting out the tired repudiation of critics with the implied solemn query ‘when did you last beat your wife’, as a defense of Husain’s license to do as he pleased.



They do not hesitate to excoriate what one described as Internet Hindus, as if the appellation had explanatory power beyond the mundane fact that practising Hindus, irrespective of qualification, are rarely allowed a voice in India’s purchased print media and television channels. One journalist with elevated connections to Hindutva nationalism insinuated on NDTV that the Hindutva brigade ‘hounding’ Husain was akin to Nazism of the 1930s (only seeking legal opinion in the courts as it happens and occasionally disrupting exhibitions). He is apparently in need of education on what transpired in mid-1930s Germany.



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Gautam Sen should name names and quote exactly what these fair-weather friends/nationalists said. If their names and the exact incendiary words alluded-to were made public, not everyone will want to play ball with these people in future: I imagine any Hindus with sense will regard them as permanently tainted, as unHindus, and avoid them like the plague.