A college lecturer supports the heinous act of students’ wing of the CPM to hurt the Hindu sentiments
Ambika JK
The hypocritical leftist slur takes an ugly turn in Kerala. Obstinately devoted to her opinions, the Kerala Varma College (Thrissur) lecturer Deepa Nishanth came up with a Facebook post on July 14 shamelessly justifying the SFI students on the controversial posters put up inside the college campus on July 12.
The illustrious Kerala Varma College has been showing symptoms of leftist degeneration for some time now and has been actively working on polluting the cultural space by injecting anti Hindu ideology. Their college magazine, presumably a bigot, depicted the misguided representation of new generation intellectuals. There have been instances of the students’ wing unleashing violence inside the campus. Fearing to lose their endurance, they came up with flex inside the campus barely a week back replicating the controversial naked Goddess Saraswati painting by displaced, deceased artist MF Hussain, indeed with certain strategic intensions. The same had to be removed amid public indignation and that was a point of discussion widely, especially in social media. The lecturer came up with a lengthy Facebook post addressing those who had objected, cumulatively calling them ‘Hindu terrorists’. She justified MF Hussain blatantly picking and choosing the constitutional rights bestowed upon her as a citizen of India and bisected the subject to substantiate her point of view with lame examples viz the artist has named the picture Saraswati, need not to be Goddess Saraswati. Examples were given in form of pictures from Chera, Chola era to put her point forward that Goddess Saraswati was mostly sculptured naked and showed surprise why that did not ignite ire among believers. On the other hand she criticised Raja Ravi Varma for portraying Goddess Sari-clad Saraswati in Maratha style by accusing Ravi Varama of being a conservative. A deliberate attempt was made there to exalt Hussain over Ravi Varma.
MF Hussain is known for interpreting popular figures, mainly Hindu Gods and Goddesses in an awkward and objectionable way insulting faith, raking up numerous controversies and litigations. Hussain himself has reportedly conveyed once to media that he painted nude in order to embarrass them. He believed they deserved it. It is evident and apparent that with his approach towards Hindu Gods, the intension was not to eulogise them. If someone makes an attempt to rationalise an artist who disregarded Indian culture and Hindu beliefs, it can never be out of constitutional sense, but a radical left inclination. Here, an
intervention is required to question, object, confront and abolish the attempts made on this route. It needs to be reiterated that nudity is not offensive, what makes it offensive is the attitude behind. Even when we approach the incident based on the psychological theory of ‘frustration leads to vulgarity’ this is absolutely true and alarming.
Deepa Nishanth needs to be enlightened about how the art and culture work. Surroundings and lifestyle of the particular era will always remain as the favourite subject of artists across the world. Any art form evolves as per the need of time and people. If one fails to imbibe means, not fit to be followed.
It is interesting and also worth mentioning here that the self-proclaimed bold Deepa totally overturned when someone came up with her semi-naked picture on social media loudly announcing it as his freedom of expression. Within no time hypocrite in Deepa woke up and soon announced a retaliating legal action for misusing her picture. This is being questioned widely as when one is not able to be tolerant towards criticism, the attempt also should not be made to criticise or insult the rest or their beliefs.
