The NewSense

27 February, 2010

HUBLI: 95 years old painter of India M.F.Husain has at last decided to take nationality of Qatar. He has been fugitive since 2006 after painting nude Hindu goddesses and he managed to live in Dubai and London and failed to attend the legal cases against him. Now he says “I’m honored by Qatar nationality but deeply saddened by my forced exile. I, the Indian-born painter, will have to give up the citizenship of my land of birth if I accept nationality,” According to the report, Husain did not apply for the nationality but it was conferred on him at the instance of the emirate’s ruling family. It’s an honor that has been conferred upon him by the Emirate’s ruling family as a reward for his tireless work that he has done for a Doha museum on the Arab civilization.  It seems the citizenship has been offered by the sheikha, the wife of the sheikh of Qatar. The painter who being Indian condemned Indian Hindu gods by means of his art does not deserve to be in India at all. He called his art as creative and criticizers as hypocrites and said people in India are curbing his freedom of art. Husain has painted Durga, Laxmi, Saraswati, etc. in the nude while he paints his step-mother, Prophet’s daughter & his own daughter fully clothed. What artistic value has Husain achieved by disrobing Hindu Goddesses? Husain has deliberately & intentionally hurt religious sentiments of millions of Hindus by his naked & obscene depiction of their goddesses. Just have look at his some of his nonsense paintings.

A comparison of his paintings on Hindu mythology and religion and other religion leads to the inevitable conclusion that the Hindu nude paintings appear to be with the sole objective to hurt Hindu religious sentiments and insult the Hindu religion and provoke communal tensions in this country. Thus he did his business by drawing poronographical paintings of Hindu Gods and Goddesses. He even extended his freedom of art to portray mother India also. In February 6, 2006 issue, India Today, national English weekly published an advertisement titled “Art for Mission Kashmir”. This advertisement contains a painting of Bharatmata (Mother India) as a nude woman posed across a map of India with the names of Indian States on various parts of her body

Now that once for all he is quitting India, some so called intellectuals of India and Media are feeling as if India is losing one of its jewel. These hypocrite media and intellectuals need to understand that India will never forget and forgive Mr.Maqbool F****** Husain for portraying our goddesses nude and  if he feels there is freedom for art in Qatar let him paint the women of Qatar in the same manner and then see the consequences. Hindus spared him because they are Hindus. Government of India says he can come back to India and they say he is pride of India. There is absolutely no dispute over his painting capability and his mastery in art but the intention of using the freedom of art to insult the very tradition and culture of the Hinduism is not acceptable. There were many great painters in India before Husain and there will be many more in future also. Every artist is ambassador for the culture and tradition of the country. And every artist should spread this message through out the world thru’ his means of art. Either it is painting or music or acting or any other form of art.

Now it is the people of India to who are sympathetic about Husain to realize that Husain is hardly patriotic and never bothered to apologize for his Hindu goddesses’ nude painting and never requested to enter into India. He is happy with Qatar citizen ship. Even his son said his father is older than the independent India and further added that one can take man out of the country but not country out of the man. The entire world agitated when Dutch cartoonist made cartoon of Mohammed and we being Hindus are feeling sad about his exile and now acting as if he was the only painter alive in our country. It is time to think what we stand for and what the country stands for. Let us do not demoralize our culture and tradition for the sake of so called secularism. Can any body sacrifice their self identity for secularism? Can any body allow their family women to be painted in nude just because the greatest painter on the earth is painting the portrait? At least for the sake of secularism as the painter is Muslim?  It is for the people of India to decide who feel more secular in praising the Muslims.