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Amol Hatwar’s perspectives on art, culture, business, science and technology

Post archive for ‘Politics’

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.

Why Australia should do more

Reports of crime against Indians, especially in the student community, are on the rise in Australia. The Australian government is currently playing wait-and-watch, by labeling the incidents as an urban crime. Adding to the melee, we now have the Australian media. They have recently gone ballistic on the Indian media for fanning the issue to much. Beneath the din of confusion, facts, counter-facts, assaults and deaths seem to be a reveling breed of extremist Australians that enjoy butchering Indians while the police nap.

Murdering Europeans?

Super-holistic European views on Intellectual Property in International Trade are murdering people in poorer countries.