Comments on: Legal Breather for Hussain

By: kaafir

kaafir — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:32:40 +0000

Here's a different perspective on this issue,

By: Another Indian

Another Indian — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:59:52 +0000

I hope the court will remove ban on Rangeela Rasool and will let the book be published. I hope the islamists won’t kill the judge if he does so, as they killed Raj Pal.

By: Jiggs

Jiggs — Wed, 21 May 2008 05:15:44 +0000

Loud and Wide Mouth AKHIL SIBAL ….THE SON OF THE COPIOUS Kapil Sibal was on Times Now, the day HC ruled in favor of Majboor Faggot Hussian. His argument was that HINDU gods/goddess have been painted for centuries and it is a tradition to do so, on the other hand please find out if any painting/picture depicting the Prophet of Islam was available, barring the Danish Cartoon controversy.
Akhil what is worse the SHIT IN YOUR MIND OR THE LEAD IN YOUR ASS????
Majboor Faggot Hussian must be taught the meaning of the word equality….I don’t know if the guy is educated, but if he has common sense then he should have known that his depiction of Nude goddess and Bharat Mata, hurt hindu sensibilities, so he should have refrained from such acitvities. Which he won’t and yes the Shekhar Gupta tit bit is accurate, when posed the question he did RADICAL ISLAMIC act….
Regarding the judgement, WELCOME TO THE SECULAR REPUBLIC OF INDIA?????

By: Kumar

Kumar — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:37:10 +0000

(Not to be confused with other Kumar earlier in thread here)

Rejoice folks. This verdict gives all license to draw cartoons of the Danish variety.

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:59:16 +0000

[...] please define “worthless investments”. Is there a hurdle IRR (internal rate of return) you demand as a learned investor of the arts? If that’s so, let’s play an experiment:

You quote a price for the painting and let me tell you if that’s acceptable to Husain.
Here’s a hint: you have to pay him what he thinks his painting is worth having destroyed. I have a feeling you are not going to hang it up in your living room. [...]

By: badindianmofo

badindianmofo — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:12:58 +0000

Sandeep, so you’d have the old bastard thrown in jail because we all know that is what would have happened to someone who portrayed Mohammed (in any manner). You sure are choosing easy targets.

By: Kumar

Kumar — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:09:20 +0000

link to the full text of Justice Kaul’s judgement: http://im.rediff.com/news/2008/may/Judgment.pdf

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:10:59 +0000

What about Meenaxi? Remember Hussain stopped the screening of the film through out the country…

Here is a old report to refresh our memories…

The problem erupted when the All-India Ulema Council demanded an immediate ban on the current chartbuster qawalli track ï¿½Noor-un-ala-noorï¿½ from Hussain’s film penned by Hussain himself. The council secretary grudged that the phrase Noor-un-ala-noor meaning ‘light and more light’ is used in the holy Quran to praise the Prophet Mohammed. But Hussain has used the phrase to illustrate the beauty of women in his film, which has hurt the religious sentiments of the community. They had even filed a complaint with the Mumbai police and had asked them to take stringent action failing which they will protest against the song and the film.

Hussain who seems to be quite disturbed by all this claimed that since he didn’t make the artistic film to earn moolah, he has withdrawn it from the cinema halls.

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So based on his statement we can infer that his painting of hindu goddesses were for earning moolah. When people from his own religion turned against him (for a single line in a song) he was very quick in taking the film off theatres (no snipping of the offending line sir…no,no…the whole film goes) ….why this double standards? And I am surprised that this issue seems to have been forgotten by many…at least i have not seen it being discussed in blogs or the papers….

By: rishi

rishi — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:40:14 +0000

Hussain’s paintings are a work of art. They are a national treasure.

One of the biggest problems with our country is that we do not have an appreciation of the rights of others. If you do not like his paintings, you are free not to buy it or promote it in any way.

You are also free to write about it asking others not to look at it or buy it.

What you are NOT free to do is to stop anybody from displaying the painting, or ask Mr Hussain to stop painting such items in the future.

One more thing. The Hindu religion is one of the oldest and biggest in the world. Is your faith so poor that a simple painting would cause you to loose that faith.

What are you afraid of?

By: Revathi

Revathi — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:32:22 +0000

Hussain should have been conscious of his pan india status and should have refrained from exhibiting these paintings even if he wanted to paint them for private viewing. We can only hope that the muslim clergy will issue a fatwa against him for publicly exhibiting nude paintings- goddesses or otherwise.