After Naked Bharatmata Hussain Painted "Rape Of India"...

March 8, 2010
Phalgun Krushna Ashtami, Kaliyug Varsha 5111

Why should we protest against this painting ?

1.    By representing India as a woman being raped, is nothing but a terrible denigration. For an Indian, 'Bharat Mata' (Mother India) is a Goddess and showcasing her in this manner is highly outrageous and never acceptable form of denigration.
 
2.    It would be appropriate to ask MF Husain if he would have dared to make a similar painting had there been an attack on UK, UAE or Qatar (Husain has recently become a citizen there) and named it 'Rape of UK, UAE or Qatar'?
 
3.    What is MF Husain's sick fascination of having sex with animals? Why does he repeatedly superimpose his dirty minded eroticism onto Deities?
 
4.    Why has he split the canvas into half ? doesn't he want to show India spilt into pieces. Why this divisive implication that India will crumble under attack ?
 
5.    Why has he painted the blood that has been spilt in the colour green ? And also the two bull with green face. The offenders of the cowardly terrorist attacks that India is facing, is by people who are symbolized  by the colour green, and not the other way around. Does he expect islamisation of India?
 
6.    India has been wounded by innumerable terrorist attacks. Instead of expressing her pain, MF Husain has humiliated her and has added insult to her injury by showing her being raped and that too with the added contradictory suggestion of an animal straddling her and of a man pulling at her blouse and focusing at her breast.
 
7.    If MF Husain is truly an artist (as described by artist community ) and that is all he was thinking was genuine, then why does he not paint everyone nude and having sex with animals ? But its fact that he depicts only India and Hindus in nude.
 

8.    Thus, for these reasons this painting is unacceptable to an Indian, and hurts and rapes our sensibilities.

Questions posed to Husain's supporters

1. Why can't the intellectuals and the art world see this man for what he truly is ? Why do they continue to applaud his perverted endeavours and still paint him as an 'artist' and whitewash all the muck that he spews forth from the gutters of his mind?

2. Has the collective mind of our social elite plummeted so deep so as to be trapped in a quagmire of convoluted perceptions that on the one hand puts men like Husain on a pedestal and on the other summarily rubbishes a call for purity and feelings of National pride?

3. That we are actually debating this issue and not taking immediate action against Husain is the very reason why India has been attacked for centuries and has instead only been hospitable to our ravaging invaders. So do we still want to continue to function in a manner that does not even recognize an assault on our collective consciousness in the form of this obnoxious painting ?


Source: http://www.hindujagruti.org/news/8961.html