dear all this mail i got from painter-poet kavitha balakrishnan. please respond gp.ramachandran
it is a very sad fact that religion and its artistic essense can not even be touched in today's politically charged scenario. whoever proves that religion is nothing but great ART of sensitive and much sensuous mankind, will be persecuted. it will be easily interpreted as nothing but abuse and irreverance. How will Hussain come down to India even if the courts had not produced such orders? the bandwagons of politicised Hindu religion will never leave him at peace. the deepest feudal undercurrents of Kerala and Gujarat will not prove much different at some such moments. but artist is a special creed. One should be sensitive to recognize the worth of an artistic spirit. how will one expect it from courts of a fundamentalist-corporate-world? in an interview for artconcerns.com, when i asked the famous South Indian Art collector Sara Abraham about her 60 years long association with Hussain, she made some revealing statements.... "....Because BJP and RSS are making it political. No other reason is there. What they are doing is putting Victorian petticoats on gods and goddesses. This narrow minded outlook is ridiculous. People who do this don't know what Hinduism is all about. Tell one Hindu goddess who was clothed till Ravi Varma's time? Sexuality was not a defamed subject in early India. We considered it as honourable as religion. For Indian mind body was not a discredited thing. It is not lust we see in body. It was so open and shown that men didn't lust after the body. Some must of course have misused it. But by and large, body of men and women are considered as creation of god. Hinduism framed and glorified body. Islam covered it. As a religion it is more mental. Islam is a very beautiful religion in a different way. But there is nothing in religion to fight about. Gandhi had no fight with Islam or any religion. Narrow minded people of today are doing it. And see, Hussain has done nothing against Hinduism or against any religion for that matter. He is a very religious person and a very good man, warm hearted, all-giving, generous and thinking person. People just don't know this when they condemn him." Kavitha Balakrishnan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
