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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.
Singh, Mir Imtiaz, Rajeev Bhargav, Sambhavi, Geeti Sen, Shikha Trivedi,
Bulbul Sharma, Aruna Vasudev, Rashmi Vajpayee, Amrut Patel, Manu Rewal,
Sudip Roy, Reya Thakur, Sujata Dere, Meera Menezes, Ujjwal Gupta, Alpana,
Sushma Gupta, soma Basu, Trikha Gupta, Rekha Purie, Pankaj Singh, Kanchan
Chandra, Keshav Mallick, Manu Parekh, Vivan Sundaram, Paramjit Singh,
Arpita Singh, Manisha Parekh, Jhupu Adhikari, Ruchira Gupta, Anil Chandra.




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