Moral Policing on Art
The incident that happend in the Maharaja SayajiRao Universirty in Vadodara has definitely made a mark. Art has always been considered free from all kinds of restrictions where all the artists can depict whatever their creative minds can spur. But moral policing on Art is not very welcome.
There were protests by some pro-hindu activists and they even harassed the student whose works were on display there and police arrested that student. I have just one question what were outsiders doing in a Fine Arts exam. I mean the students work was not public and even it was just meant for the evaluation by his faculty. There was absolutely no need for any kind of person to interfere with the examination process. MSU shouldn’t have allowed anyone into the Fine Arts exam hall display as it was not meant for public.
Indians have actually forgotten what it means to be civilised. There was no need for the protesters to vandalise the paintings. These people who vandalised those painting don’t actually know how difficult and time consuming art-work is; they didn’t have the civilised mind frame to first report it to the college authorities and have it removed rather than destroying them.
I understand that sometime people’s religious sentiments are hurt but violence is not the only way to get what one wants. We shouldn’t be eager to make violence our weapon, these things show to the world that we are nothing but a group of religious fanatics.