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On Husain, Religion and India
The question: Name a famous Indian painter, should now get you even fewer answers as Maqbool Fida Husain, popularly known as M.F. Husain, recently accepted the citizenship of Qatar. M.F. Husain’s troubles began in 1996, after a Hindi monthly published an inflammatory article on his paintings of Hindu deities done in the 1970s. There has been an avalanche in the number of legal cases against him ever since. Even exhibitions of his work have been wrongfully vandalized.