Constitution gives us the right to freedom of speech and expression. However these rights are not absolute. Reasonable restrictions can be imposed by ‘The State’ in the interest of decency or, morality or, in relation to contempt of court, defamation or incitement to an offence. Thus in the name of freedom of expression one can not get a license to hurt others belief and religious sentiments.
Chandramohan, that fine arts student of M.S. University of Vadodara, violated these basic constraints associated with the constitutional right of freedom of speech and expression. Chandramohan painted naked Jesus pissing on the commode and Goddess Durga giving birth. In the name of freedom of artist, Wasim Kapoor depicted Goddess Kali as witch; M.F. Hussain not only painted naked Saraswati, he drew the picture of Lord Hanuman with aroused penis and naked Sita masturbating with the tail of Hanuman while Lord Shiva watching in his bull-incarnation and indulging in an act of sodomy with naked Parvati. Aren’t these enough to outrage the entire Hindu community by hurting their religious sentiments?
The people who raise their voice in protest are branded as communal and Hindu fanatics by the so called members of intelligentsia who claim themselves as ‘secular’ and ‘progressive’. The same set of people pretended not to notice the world wide jihads against the Danish newspapers for publishing the cartoon of Prophet Mohammed and high incentives declared for beheading unknown Danish cartoonists. Just few days after lending their vociferous support for Chandramohan, the same set of people preferred to look other way when the entire Muslim community of Vadodara was up in arms against some posters on the walls of M.S. University where few naked figures were depicted in the background of presumably Mecca and Medina. This lot of pseudo-secularists tried to justify the anger of the Muslim community for this ‘blasphemy’ and did not lost the opportunity of spitting venom against Modi government and so called Hindutva Brigade for ‘vitiating’ the ‘secular’ polity of this country and hurting Muslim religious sentiments. All those big sermons preached just few days ago, about the freedom of artists was then completely forgotten!
Few years ago this great artist Hussain withdrew a movie directed and produced by him from all the theatres for alleged similarity with sayings of Koran and a song of that movie. No one including those so called ‘secular’ and ‘progressive’ kind of species who are now shouting at the top of their voice for the freedom of artists, dared to say even a word then.
All those so called work of art are nothing but the reflection of perverted and evil minds and intense hatred against the Hindu Gods. Do they have courage to draw the nude portraits of the Prophet and his wives and daughters? No one of them will dare to do so. The reason is simple. They will be mutilated at the hands of Muslim zealots if they can’t afford to have Rushdie like security. Such type of backlash is unexpected even after maligning the Hindu Gods. No wonder, the Hindus are the favourite whipping boy of all and sundry.
Shameless appeasement of so called minorities are treated as hallmark of secularism while the easiest way to prove ‘progressive’ credential is to hurt the religious sentiment of Hindus in our beloved motherland.
Chandramohan, that fine arts student of M.S. University of Vadodara, violated these basic constraints associated with the constitutional right of freedom of speech and expression. Chandramohan painted naked Jesus pissing on the commode and Goddess Durga giving birth. In the name of freedom of artist, Wasim Kapoor depicted Goddess Kali as witch; M.F. Hussain not only painted naked Saraswati, he drew the picture of Lord Hanuman with aroused penis and naked Sita masturbating with the tail of Hanuman while Lord Shiva watching in his bull-incarnation and indulging in an act of sodomy with naked Parvati. Aren’t these enough to outrage the entire Hindu community by hurting their religious sentiments?
The people who raise their voice in protest are branded as communal and Hindu fanatics by the so called members of intelligentsia who claim themselves as ‘secular’ and ‘progressive’. The same set of people pretended not to notice the world wide jihads against the Danish newspapers for publishing the cartoon of Prophet Mohammed and high incentives declared for beheading unknown Danish cartoonists. Just few days after lending their vociferous support for Chandramohan, the same set of people preferred to look other way when the entire Muslim community of Vadodara was up in arms against some posters on the walls of M.S. University where few naked figures were depicted in the background of presumably Mecca and Medina. This lot of pseudo-secularists tried to justify the anger of the Muslim community for this ‘blasphemy’ and did not lost the opportunity of spitting venom against Modi government and so called Hindutva Brigade for ‘vitiating’ the ‘secular’ polity of this country and hurting Muslim religious sentiments. All those big sermons preached just few days ago, about the freedom of artists was then completely forgotten!
Few years ago this great artist Hussain withdrew a movie directed and produced by him from all the theatres for alleged similarity with sayings of Koran and a song of that movie. No one including those so called ‘secular’ and ‘progressive’ kind of species who are now shouting at the top of their voice for the freedom of artists, dared to say even a word then.
All those so called work of art are nothing but the reflection of perverted and evil minds and intense hatred against the Hindu Gods. Do they have courage to draw the nude portraits of the Prophet and his wives and daughters? No one of them will dare to do so. The reason is simple. They will be mutilated at the hands of Muslim zealots if they can’t afford to have Rushdie like security. Such type of backlash is unexpected even after maligning the Hindu Gods. No wonder, the Hindus are the favourite whipping boy of all and sundry.
Shameless appeasement of so called minorities are treated as hallmark of secularism while the easiest way to prove ‘progressive’ credential is to hurt the religious sentiment of Hindus in our beloved motherland.
