Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:29:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Arindam Dutta <adutta-AT-phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Subject: Actions on Doshi-Hussain Gufa (Press Release) Please forward this to all your friends, colleagues, comrades who you believe will have a stake in this. This is a general call to all creative or socially-conscious people: artists, film-makers, literateurs, etc. etc. please fax an image, poem or short piece of prose or e-mail a letter to one of the following addresses. They are followed by the press release: e-mail: shmt.sahmat-AT-axcess.net.in fax (images): 91-11-335-5845 91-11-462-2017 Please do this before Thursday noon, IST. Love, Arindam PRESS RELEASE Over 100 artists, writers, intellectuals, poets, theatre persons and gallery owners, among whom were notable artists Satish Gujral, Bhabesh Sanyal, A. Ramachandran, Manjit Bawa, Arpita Singh, Manu Parekh, Vivan Sundaram and Jatin Das; writers and critics Bhisham Sahni, Nirmal Verma, Krishen Vallabh Vaid, Ashok Vajpayeee, Keshav Malik and Suneet Chopra; gallery owners Rekha Puri, Renu Modi, and Arun Vadhera; poets Manglesh Dabral and Pankaj Singh; and theatre persons N.K. Sharma, Ram Gopal Bajaj and film critic Aruna Vasudev, gathered in the lawns of Rabindra Bhawan to protest against the vandalism indulged in by the Bajrang Dal at Ahmedabad that led to the destruction of a large number of irreplaceable works of art by the eminent painter M. F. Husain. Speaking on the occasion, there was unanimity among artists, writers and specialists that those who had committed this act had no comprehension of our temple iconography or cultural traditions. They further called on the Government of india and the state governments of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, to ensure that those spreading communal propaganda against the noted painter be brought to book and the vandals punished. To register their protestt against this unprecedented savagery, they called for an all India Protest Day on 18th October, to be observed with the "Closure of all art galleries, schools and institutions" and have called on artists all over the country to fax a drawing of Saraswati or an image of protest with their statements in support of Husain to the SAHMAT office in New Delhi as the art world denies the right of any single institution or set of institutions to dictate what we should paint. The images should be faxed by Thursday 12 noon at fax numbers 011-3355845 or 011-4622017. Madhavi Parekh, Anzum Singh, Renu Modi, Sadre Alam, Zargar Zahoor, S.P. 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