A story here, about the jailing and intimidation of an Indian artist over supposed “obscenity.” I wrote some days ago about the Richard Gere story, and the deluded opinion that Gere needed to show more respect to “Indian culture” — as if the priorities of the ultraright Hindu faction Shiv Sena represent Indian culture as a whole.
In the present case in Gujarat state, the rightist thugs are not defending Indian culture — they are mounting an assault against it:
…one of the most striking [paradoxes] is that the puritanism of today’s Hindu radicals coexists with a long tradition of graphic sexual iconography. Hindu temple carvings often feature elaborate scenes of copulation.
That is Indian culture.
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