Protest Letters from alert Hindus to Christies
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> Protest Letter 1
From: ramgopal gupta
To: nsanjana@christies.com
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:53:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Exhibition of impuned paintings of MF Husain
Dear Madame,
I believe that you very well know that there are about 900 criminal complaints against MF Husain for his obnoxious paintings of Hindu gods, goddesses and icons. He is a fugitive, living out of India, and is not coming to India, to avoid criminal proceedings. Holding exhibition of his objectionable paintings will amount to be an act of complicity and conspiracy with MF Husain (IPC 120-B) in his criminal act of outraging religious feelings of Hindus (IPC 295-A) and punishable with imprisonment upto three years or so..
I, therefore, request you to remove all objectionable paintings of MF Husain from your exhibition to be held in New York on March 20. This will be in your interest too, in addition to respecting the religious feelings of Hindus.
Yours sincerely,
Ram Gopal
> Protest Letter 2
From: HHShah
To: nsanjana@christies.com,
Date Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 8:43 AM
Subject: Please stop Christies auction of paintings by the MF Hussein
Dear Nawaz;
Just as you feel offended by Prophet Muhammad's cartoons in the Western press, we Hindus are offended by the MF Hussein. His derogatory description of Hindu gods goddesses and now even the rivers, has hurt the feelings of Hindus throughout the world.
I hope you understand and act to help our cause.
thank you.
...hemant shah
> Protest Letter 3
From: Vijayalakshmi G
Date: Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 12:12 PM
Subject: Stop display/auction of paintings by M.F.Husain who denigrated Hindu Deities
To: idudek@christies.com
Dear Ms.Ingrid Dudek,
This is to convey our protests to your display/auction of the demeaning paintings by M.F.Husain of Hindu Deities, which are scheduled to be auctioned by Christie's on 20th March,2008.
We,the thousands of devout Hindus,have been outraged and humiliated by the nude and demeaning portrayals of our Deities by the pervert of an artist called M.F.Husain.
We had participated in a signature campaign to take legal action against this man for hurting the religious sentiments of Hindus. Thousands of cases have been registered against him in various courts of India. Arrest warrants had been issued against him. He is now a fugitive from the law of the land.
Some anti-nationals are supporting him, but as a responsible and civilized person, you and your firm Christie's, should honour the sentiments of devout and peaceful Hindus and remove the paintings of the perverted painter M.F.Husain. Please do not help this lecher to make money by auctioning the demeaning paintings of our revered Deities. You are aware of the intolerance of muslims to even the slightest disrespect to their religion. Then how can such brazen disrespect to our religion be tolerated, and how can you be a party to it?
We are deeply hurt by this insensitivity shown by Christie's, despite previous protests. We hope you will honour our sentiments at least now and remove his paintings from your galleries, because this despicable man has made a mockery of our peaceful religion. Please remember that exhibiting his paintings itself amounts to felicitating a pervert.
Thanking You,
Yours truly,
G.Vijayalakshmi,
T.C.Govindan
Kavitha Menon
S.Rajanandam
Sujatha Rajanandam
Rajath
Krishna Kumar
Adithi
Sasidharan
Vimala
Rajanish
Smita
Ravi
Vatsala
Vikram
Rajamma
Lakshmi and others.
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