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Re: ARTICLE: Weak to the strong, Strong to the weak - An article by Sri Arun Shourie
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Subject: Re: ARTICLE: Weak to the strong, Strong to the weak - An article by Sri Arun Shourie
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From: Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian <rbalasub@ecn.purdue.edu>
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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 17:17:53 -0500
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Shrisha Rao wrote:
> > This is an excellent article by Arun Shourie. This was forwarded by
> > a friend, I do not know the original source.
> One point about Hussein that doesn't seem to have been made so far is
> that he may have -- or even must have -- done this deliberately. I
> mean, the man is at best a mediocre artist who has over long decades
> failed to make any decent headway in making a mark for himself. For
> the excellent reason that rather than devote himself to his art, he
> seems to prefer to try one gimmick after another to keep himself in
> the limelight, little realizing that this does nothing to impart worth
> to his work. In the eighties, when the Ram-temple movement started
> gaining ground, and with the Ramayan tele-serial, etc., the feeling of
My feelings exactly! The incident of destroying his own paintings and the
exhibition where he had pieces of cloth strewn as exhibits come to mind.
Anyway, I have to admit that I too have no sympathy with many of the so called
modern artists.
> And now comes this, wherein no doubt the "artist" hopes that by
> outraging the sensibilities and sentiments of the majority of Hindus,
> he will gain sufficient notoriety to be able to sell a few more of his
> otherwise-worthless canvases. But he doesn't seem to realize that the
> public is not that stupid. For most people, a painting is an
What really bothered me was the fact that people resorted to violence, though
thankfully, it did not go out of bounds. There will, I suppose, always be
someone trying to get publicity through such stunts. Using this ocassion to
question some of the activities of the so-called liberals, in a sane, logical
way (like Shourie) would have been really good. But that would be too ideal a
situation to ask for, I suppose.
Ramakrishnan.
