Yet that doesn't seem to stop the current self-appointed moral police. Where does their vision of "Traditional Indian Culture" come from? Certainly not from any uncertainty, ambiguity, or possibility of diversity.
Well, to quote Ranjit Hoskote <http://www.artconcerns.com/html/baroda1.htm>: It appears that the champions of a resurgent Hindu identity are acutely
embarrassed by the presence of the erotic at the centre of Hindu sacred art. As they may well be, for the roots of Hindutva do not lie in Hinduism. Rather, they lie in a crude mixture of German romanticism, Victorian puritanism and Nazi methodology.
Link: http://www.artconcerns.com/html/baroda1.htm Cheers Amit On 5/18/07, Charles Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/18/07, Abhijit Menon-Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 2007-05-17 02:25:58 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Being one of those hard-line civil libertarian free expression > > advocates [...] > Oh noes! The western cultural imperialists are already among us, ERODIN' > our VALUES! > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolcat No, I'm assimilating your culture, that's what I'm doing. Still can't find a decent canned consomme though. -- Charles
-- Amit Varma http://www.indiauncut.com
