This morning, Arpita Patra, a wonderful soul and IIM-B PGDM Class of 2013 student, posted a comment on her Facebook Wall.
At the time I first read the comment, I had just finished teaching a bunch of curious students, preparing for the CAT this year. Arpita's thought intrigued me enough to share my perspective on her wall.
I am reproducing the entire page status, as of 2002 hours on June 10, 2011. Please post your comments on this issue in the comments space.
Arpita Patra
At the time I first read the comment, I had just finished teaching a bunch of curious students, preparing for the CAT this year. Arpita's thought intrigued me enough to share my perspective on her wall.
Arpita Patra
11 comments:
Interesting, sir!
In fact, something similar to this was discussed in my IIM B interview. They asked me if censorship is necessary in a democracy like India. I said, "Our people are currently immature and not ready to accept different views. It is not becoming of a so-called secular nation but the awareness required to become broad-minded and accept all views will take quite a lot of time to come. Till then, censorship is needed, just for the reason that unnecessary vandalism can be avoided."
It was a lucky (for me as an interviewee, as I could quote a fact) coincidence that Gujarat had banned a book implying that Gandhi was gay just the previous day!
Good One Sir,
I may Sound out of Context But....
Well I Would Love to Say That I managed to learn two Very Big Lessons after Completely Getting through the Conversation and Understanding the Nuances ( Thanks to WordWeb Installed in My PC and the Ctrl+Right Click Option )
1.To be Articulate enough, Which I Think is to Posses Good VOCAB is Very important to Make One's Point very Resounding...!!( Atleast For people like me Who can only Manage to use CAPITALS and BOLD Letters to Shout out my Ideology) and May be also The Choice of Words Which We Use Makes a Big Difference.
2.For Someone like me, Who are just so Unfamiliar with world around and knowing a Very little about People like M F HUSSAIN . May Be its High Time that it Stop following Posts on Facebook and Twitter and Start Following People like U and (Hriday Ranjan) and Ur Blogs.
@Ratnadeep I Level with you 100% on this one.
@sir : aapne to mere dil ki baat keh di(comment kar di)
the right to freedom of expression should be should be exercised sensibly.
Yes,as most of us would agree, freedom and reason ought to be balanced.Freedom always comes with a sense of responsibilty.Somewhere a line has to be drawn as we are in a society where not many are called for the amount of tolerance required to make this world a better place to live in.It might be 'Freedom of Expression' for an artist,it might be hurting their sentiments for somebody else.But,what is more important is that we are to live in harmony.
Though,most of us reading this blog, can appreciate that nudity is not synonymous to obscenity,we cannot expect everybody else to do so.But,what concerns me is that the protestor's could not accept MFH's apology and expaination that his paintings meant no offence.
Dear Bharat,
I appreciate your bringing the discussion to this forum. Especially after first advising me against getting personal, and then calling me a leftist pseudo-intellectual with a narrow perspective, who has been blinded by his intellectual arrogance !! :D
Nonetheless, I appreciate the thinking that went behind this blog, though I wish you would have included Arpita Patra's reply to her status update. It was a well-written reply.
I have mentioned this discussion in my blog too, and here are my two pennies on the issue:
http://heartranjan.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/m-f-husain/
Hmm..Let's not deride the dead...M F Hussain was a great painter but like all of us,a man with faults..maybe a fault too many.Let's remember his art ,the country that gave birth to such an artist,and what happens when you meddle with people's sentiments and let go of d rest(if der is ne thin else)..peace every1.. Thanku sir thanks every1 else!
I do not claim to know much of any art but I do have common sense in good measure..and I'm going to have to agree with Mr Bharat
To assume knowledge of art as a prerequisite to taking offence to its content is akin to that of driving to be run over by a vehicle...
It was also interesting that you mused on one's leftist leanings in an accusatory tone...something unthinkable in an atmosphere where the Left (sinister?? :P ) is the de facto mainstream...
All this discussion might not have happened if the Supreme court might have asked a simple explanation for the paintings to M. F. Hussain that "What did the paintings mean"...
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