sex has been an integral part of indian culture for ages, the temples of khajuraho and the kamasutra being some of the best examples, so..are all these people who are against potraying nudity in art will be against the temples also? or will they burn the copies of kamasutra?? will such people raise their concern over child abuse, molestation of working women, abortion of female foetus, child marriage too?

art is not democratic, and it should never be, peoples votes can choose a corrupt politician to run the state but people dont have right to dictate what the artists in the country should be doing or should not be doing. i dont think any artist thinks for religion or is biased towards one. if hussain paints things then i dont see him provoking hindu mindset all across the nation, such sort of “talibanism” shouldnt be practiced or appriciated by the masses of hindus in india.

The term “culture” is very much temporary, a culture is what the people are, what they think, what they do.. it can not be same for thousands of years, culture is bound to change, you and me can not stop being it to change, to get modified. Culture and ethics can not be same for me and you, everyone has his own scale to measure them. We are in a country where we get agitated by art if it reflects what we dont like to see, but i have never seen people outrightly appriciating art when they really like, may be because they dont understand art. we always tell kids to study more to become doctor, engineer, MBA or scientist, i have rarely seen people telling their children to become an artist, a sculptor, a musician, a movie maker.. these are the professions where nothing is right or wrong. and if one feels that artists are bunch of crazy psychos and they should be jailed all across then i would say that we need some more psychos around us.. to set this world into an equilibrium.

I don’t prefer a painting where anyone is having a sexual intercourse with lion, that doesn’t means that i’ll kick if anybody does.

“If he would have done the same with any Muslim god then he would have been killed till date.”

AFAIK there’s only only one god for Muslims.

I’ve seen the prophet cartoons. I pity on people those who can’t enjoy a simple cartoon.

I agree with what Voltaire said: “I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.”

because he/she need some attention. wht funny was when those so called art students called all art members from India & organized a rally here ,we found there were many people from nearby cities who were paid to attend rally (they even don’t know of a or art).

whts more ,another moral police dare devil tried to announce 1 lakh prize money to any 1 who draw to Mohemamad Paigamber ,after harsh protest & other things ,poor (or threatened) man said sorry about that.

Like I said earlier – what Moral police or bunch of hippocrates did was wrong. No voilence should be part of this process.

How will a person feel when some painter paint’s his mother having sex with a lion or any animal? doesn’t it hurt?

God’s can have sex but the problem is, intercourse with a Lion? Did he ever dare do the same stuff with any Muslim god? If he really wanted to show is artistic skills then he never would have thought of what is Hindu or what is Muslim. But here the case is diffeent. He knew that it will be wrong if he does like this to any Muslim god or may be he knew he might get killed if he does it with Muslim gods. So in short, it just does not make any sense to me or shows any freedom in showing hindu goddess in obscene positions.

You might call me Hindu fantic or whatver but the reasons what are given just does not convice me about artistic freedom.

If he wants then he can do the stuff at his home and keep for personal stuff but why to hurt sentiments of people by displaying it in Public?

What M.F. Hussain showed was disturbing I agree but these moral police did attack the student in MSU and his paintings were destroyed even though the paintings were not even meant for public display that is where it shows how bad the moral policing situation is. The student of MSU is in Jail and I guess that satisfies all the moral police guys.

@Rohit: these people are not police actually they are public like you and me who try to tell the world what is wrong and what is right. And while doing so they resort to violence mostly(I should say always.)

This is very much similar to the Church claiming that Mary was a virgin and Jesus was born to her by some supernatural events. How logical is that given that they themselves claim on the contrary that Mary was just a mortal?

You again bring forth the issue of morals. I won’t be wasting the comments space by repeating what I said in the 1st one. Someone says “ah! these morals you shall follow” and so an arbitrary benchmark of decency and obscenity is created and when that is breached, there is chaos all over. Later on, these violent acts would be defended under the garb of cliched rhetorics about tradition and values.

I feel I should discontinue this discussion lest it be interpreted as a personal attack on Deep.