Comments on: I’m Waiting for the Secularists

By: Seriously Sandeep » Come Home Hussain

Seriously Sandeep » Come Home Hussain — Mon, 07 May 2007 07:31:59 +0000

[...] A barefooted painter lives in Cuffe Parade. He spends his time globe-hopping when he’s not obsessed with the anatomical details of Hindu Gods and Goddesses. In an interview to the Sunday Slimes some years ago, he defiantly proclaims that he neither “regrets” nor “apologizes” for his “art,” and he ignores attacks to his “art.” But he realizes that there are limits to art. A highly illustrative case of this lofty humane spirit is when he withdrew Meenaxi, his labour of love because it grievously wounded fragile sentiments. [...]

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By: Alka

Alka — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Sandeep, if you see some secularist speaking up, please do let us know. We are all waiting.

By: Shanti

Shanti — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Sandeep, you know “secularism” raises voice only when Hindus speak up, don’t you? We are all fascistic right-wingers oppressing poor Muslims.

By: Sandeep

Sandeep — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

LOL Alka and Shanti

Yeah…I know, I know. I’m sure none will dare raise a voice against this deadly mini-fatwa. So there!

By: Henry

Henry — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

why didn’t you offer as much as a “sorry” when you hurt the sentiments of millions of Hindus in your ghastly creative portrayal of Gods and Goddesses they worship with such devotion

That’s freedom of speech.

By: Darpan

Darpan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Sandeep, very well written.

I have what I believe is an apt analogy for secularists:

They are like the timid-yet-nasty men who would rather not protest an act of humiliation given them by a bully on the street, but back home, beat their wives mercilessly and feel they have been man enough.

Our secularists are like that. All their shouting is directed against those who they know will _not_ harm them. When it comes to those who would not hesitate to deliver them a solid kick in the groin, however, our secularists wisely fall silent.

The media is full of these coward-on-the-street-but-wife-beater-at-home equivalents. Indian Express and NDTV are two ready examples.

By: Prashant

Prashant — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Very well put,Sandeep.Where are the secularists now?Where is the ‘freedom of expression’ for this filthy artist now?One call from the muslims and he shits in his pants and promptly withdraws the movie.But when the Hindus complain of his nude paintings,it’s an attack on the freedom of expression.

By: Sivashankar

Sivashankar — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND EXPRESSION MUST STOP WHERE IT BEGINS TO TRESSPASS INTO THE TERRITORY OF ANOTHER HUMAN’S SENTIMENT OR FAITH.
You see ‘expression’ can mean anything! Even a rapist is expressing himself. Should we respect his ‘freedom of expression’ ? Painting Gods/Godesses of any religion may or may not be wrong (totally debatable), but certainly affects sentiments of millions who look at the same god forms differently. If Mr. Hussain is interested in painting gods/godesses nude, he is certainly free to do that, in the privacy of his bedroom, DARE HE NOT IN OPEN. My respect for his art breaks there..I look at it as his way of INSULTING long held sentiments/faiths in the name of creation/art/novelty, which is nothing more than personally decorated/veiled criminality

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