India's amazing artist and barefoot billionaire is to be buried in Britain tomorrow.
Today, after his death has been announced, everyone in India is teary-eyed and sentimental. Hypocrites! The Shiv Senas and the BJP who used zombie gangs to attack the artist, ruin his paintings and scream death threats in order to to stifle his artistic expression, are suddenly dripping honey from their fangs, and saying things like "Hussein should be buried in India. What a load of BS!
And as for Pratibha Patel and the Congresswallahs and all the so-called liberal noise-makers: in over six years of their tenure in government, they couldn't create conditions in which the great liberal artist could return to his motherland: he was in self-imposed exile because for all our posturing, there's really no rule of law - the government couldn't guarantee protection to one of India's illustrious sons.
It's fitting that MF Hussain's final resting place will be England. To bring him back and bury him in India would be nothing short of a mockery.
A passing thought: if the tomb of one of India's best known Sufi saints could be smashed and turned into a highway overnight by a gang of thugs who haven't even been identified yet, I shudder to think of what desecrations would be planned for Hussain's tomb if he were to be laid to rest in Maharashtra!
2 comments:
An excellent and apt tribute to a unique artist India doesn't deserve!
True, I second Yogendra Krishna.
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