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Santosh Sivan to play Ravi Verma

fenilseta wrote 1 month ago: Santosh Sivan to play renowned Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma in Malayalam film Magara Manju By Subh … more →

Tags: Bollywood News, Subhash K. Jha, Fenil, Bollywood, mumbai mirror, rang rasiya, goa, Raakh, santosh sivan

The MF Husain controversy: Identity, intent and the rise of militant fascism5 comments

beenasarwar wrote 1 month ago: I wrote this essay for Nukta Art in September, for its November issue which has just been published … more →

Tags: communalism, Ram Rahman, Deeksha Nath, Communalism Combat, sahmat, Gulam Sheikh, epic india, BJP, Peabody Essex Museum

Madhuri and Amrita Rao on Hussain's same canvas

mathurneha wrote 4 months ago: Legendary artist MF Hussain will paint Madhuri Dixit and Amrita Rao on the same canvas for the first … more →

Tags: Bollywood actress, madhuri dixit, Movies, Bollywood, Painting, amrita rao, Art, Diwali, Visual Arts

And the point is?...

prempanicker wrote 4 months ago: Okay — this is bad derivative art. But how is it a protest? What message does it send the exil … more →

Tags: arts & letters

Pseudo-liberals

Geeta wrote 5 months ago: Vir Sanghvi’s column in the Hindustan Times is one of the reasons I read their Sunday edition. … more →

Tags: Our World, Vir Sanghvi, Counterpoint, Liberals, minority, Women's reservation, Prophet, hindu, Muslim

The practical value of democracy in South Asia

BobG in Vancouver wrote 7 months ago: Image by premasagar via Flickr Nothing is simple in this world where power of $$$$ holds sway more o … more →

Tags: thinking about religion, thinking about politics, The News, Culture, India, south mumbai, democracy

Art from the New World Order1 comment

Deborah Barlow wrote 1 year ago: “New China” (1965), colored pencil on paper, by Peter Saul, the subject of a retrospective this year … more →

Tags: The Art World, Holland Cotter, Art World, Triple Candle, feminist art, Peter Saul, Orange County Museum of Art

Indian highway

Arhopala Bazaloides wrote 1 year ago: From Times (UK): Everything must have looked so promising to the curators when, a couple of years ag … more →

Tags: India, Art, Terrorism, modern Indian art

MF Husain shut out from India's first art trade fair1 comment

jagoindia wrote 1 year ago: The loneliness of being M.F. Husain Fri, Aug 22 12:55 AM India’s first art trade fair, startin … more →

India's best known painter left out of Delhi art show1 comment

Raza Rumi wrote 1 year ago: By Melanie Lee  NEW DELHI (Reuters Life!) – India’s biggest art fair opened on Friday, b … more →

Tags: Art, Delhi, India

A brush with genius, India’s most renowned living artist finds inspiration in the Mahabharata, M. F. Husain

Stephen wrote 1 year ago: Maqbool Fida Husain, more popularly known as, M. F. Husain, is India’s most renowned living artist. … more →

Tags: Asian heroes, Mahabharata, Sanskrit epics of ancient India, Hindu Mythology, India’s most renowned living artist, Art, art maestro

Hindutva and radical Islam: Where the twain do meet

speekout wrote 1 year ago: Arun Shourie: Friday, December 28, 2007 Every set of scriptures has in it enough to justify extreme, … more →

Tags: vhp, RSS, Christianity, spirituality, Islamisation, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, aurobindo, swami vivekananda, hindutva

Weak to the Strong, Strong to the Weak

speekout wrote 1 year ago: Arun ShourieIn painting Goddess Saraswati naked M.F. Hussein, his secularist advocates argue, is mer … more →

Tags: Shariat, Hadith, art today, Art, Freedom of Expression, Prophet Muhammed, Hindu Goddesses, free speech, india today

Our freedoms, your lordships

asianwindow wrote 1 year ago: Pratap Bhanu Mehta in The Indian Express says some Supreme Court orders are inimical to liberal valu … more →

Tags: Society, Taslima Nasreen, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Arundhati Roy, Jodhaa Akbar, James Laine, Shivaji, Dharmakaarana, PV Narayanna

Back with a book

asianwindow wrote 1 year ago: Indrajit Hazra profiles Salman Rushdie for the Hindustan Times ONE OF the most honest yet under-repo … more →

Tags: Books, Muse, New Book, Padma Lakshmi, Salman Rushdie, Taslima Nasreen

Rushdie's fatwa on thought police

asianwindow wrote 1 year ago: Salman Rushdie speaks to the Times of India’s Dina Vakil on artistic freedom, Taslima Nasreen … more →

Tags: Books, fatwa, Indo-Anglian fiction, The Satanic Verses, Taslima Nasreen, Padma Lakshmi

The “M. F. Husain” Fever1 comment

mohitvalecha wrote 2 years ago:  If you are reading this article, I hope you have something to do with Mr. M. F. Husain. Anyways jok … more →

Tags: See all Experiences by Mohit, See all Humor by Mohit, Life, Humor, Painting, sketching, Portraits, Pune, gajagamini


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