"FAILURE is the FIRST STEP towards SUCCESS"

Today, I read the article by Ms. Neelam Raaj “The Art Attack: Da Vinci to Hussain” at Sunday times dated 23 August 2009. It was very shocking for me. I would not be so surprised or shocked, if the author would not be Indian. But this really hurts me. As when we do not respect our own culture or tradition or do not believe in us then how you expect others (other countries) to respect us.
The article was on attacks on the famous arts of the world by the different people. She given example of How Da vinci’s famous painting Monalisa came under attack from visitors and some more example of other painters. Then she come to great painter M F Hussain that he was also targeted in India by Hindu group because he made a painting of a Hindu goddesses in the nude and he has been in self imposed exile for the three years.

The way she wrote about it that it is very normal thing to paint without caring of the sentiments of the people. She gave the reason behind the attack: “some may be batty but most vandals do it just to attract attention”. Oh my god!!! Hello, Ms Neelam. You might be hardcore & blind lover of art in any form but give this statement from others point of view. We worship this goddess Saraswati. Countless Hindus are having faith in her. You cannot cross the limit for right to express. It is very common and easy to be neutral or unbiased when it comes to any Hindu things. What happened to Danish cartoonist who painted offensive thing about Prophet Mohammed? That cartoonist did wrong and had to apologize for it. I do not believe in violent protest but Mr. Hussain was very wrong in this case, no matter how big artist he is. He do not have the right to insult others belief in terms of portraying it as art. Why not you condemned Mr. Hussain as he must be knowing that what this will result before painting that. Wasn’t this also a publicity stunt or attract attention. Now you will say that he is such a big personality, so he doesn’t need attention. Madam, this is how you get famous day by day. Creating a controversy and add chapter on by one. It’s called negative publicity. Now, who doesn’t know Mr. Hussain will know him.

Forget this, I would like to give a simple example. It may be very offensive to you. Suppose Mr. Hussain would have painted yours Nude Picture and showcased in his art exhibition. You might not be offended of this as you are a great art lover and can accept art in any form but I am sure that your family and people will definitely be offended of this and will protest and strongly ask Mr. Hussain to put this painting out from the exhibition. So, this is the just case of a Human being whom very few people know. But imagine when crores of people believes and worship any goddess and someone insults it in the name of art, then how they would feel??????

Please write and condemned which will benefit society rather than supporting something which is very sensitive and hurts the belief of majority of people.

I would like to sincerely apologize in case I hurt you but I wrote what I felt.

I am big fan of Shahrukh Khan but the way Shahrukh episode was portrait as Anti-Indian or Anti-muslim is completely wrong. The United States are not a tolerant democracy like us which we are so proud of. “Kick us, Kill us but we’ll talk and condemn only”. And why not? we get pat on our shoulder from our big daddies US, UK to be tolerant, patient and resistant no matter how much we suffer and get killed. The 26/11 incident again shows the commitment of India towards curbing terrorism. This time they become more fearless. They entered and killed us in broad day light and openly engaged with Indian forces. But every one applauded the spirit of Mumbai to overcome this situation. What the hell is this spirit??? This is not the F****** spirit. This is the common people who have to come out for work so that they can feed there children and family in the costliest place of the world. They always have the fear of this that one day they can also be part of it. And this thing is misunderstood by State and central government that Mumbai can overcome of any situation. The dialogue of the film “a Wednesday” was very true that “we are resilient by force, not by choice”.
You never heard of second attack or any terrorist engagement in America. This is because of strong majors like this. If they wouldn’t then America would have faced regular terrorist attacks like India faces every day and lost many brave Jawans (military officer) in Kashmir and rest part of India. If the same episode happened in India it would become a minority politics. We have been weakened by many ways. Every strong steps to curb nuisance and terrorism here becomes anti-minority and politician are very comfortable about it. Specially the so called pretentious secular parties like congress, RJD etc as they do not want loose there muslim vote bank. I was stunned to hear that Afzal Guru hang is termed as anti-muslim in J&K. What the hell is this and how a government can be so tolerant to the terrorist and put hold on this, fear of vote fall. This can only be done in India and that’s why we are suffering.
These superstar plays their minority card when something happens against there will. Take example of Imraan Hasmi flat buying case. No journalist wants to know why flat was rejected and all blame to society in charge. Just got the bite & flashed. There are many issues to be raised to uplift the society and poor people. But no, why are multi millionaire denied the Flat. That really hurts the media and people. Our media is in very pathetic situation. They use their freedom of expression to the ugly extent. Although I there are some moments media really helped people to get justice but majority of time media is very partial.
I believe nowhere in the world, minorities get such importance than in India. All superstars remember there minority status when they are in trouble. The superstars like Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhtar, Saif Ali Khan etc. didn’t hear them of doing any good for the minority rather than verbal comments and condemning India in many important issues.
Talking like this would have termed me as non-secular or anti-muslim but I am speaking the truth I felt. I am not anti-muslim or non-secular. But there should be proper and equal justice to all the people of India rather than hindu bashing and blaming & snatching every rights from Hindu to speak and support there rights and culture which termed as non secular thing.
If we want to be real seculars then stop playing minority cards and accept the fault and cooperate with the administration to stop terrorism and violence and make India a better place to live.

Pardon me if something is wrong, I just speaked out the truth.