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MF Husain: Hindustan Is Free

MF Husain: Hindustan Is Free

Released Thursday, 24th March 2016
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MF Husain: Hindustan Is Free

MF Husain: Hindustan Is Free

MF Husain: Hindustan Is Free

MF Husain: Hindustan Is Free

Thursday, 24th March 2016
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Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the King's India Institute in London, looks at controversy over the Indian artist MF Husain, who spent the last days of his life in exile. Husain is considered by some to be the face of modern art in India but not necessarily by people in India itself. Husain died in his nineties having completed around ten thousand works. His paintings often attracted high prices but he became a target for mob anger over his portraits of Hindu goddesses and Indian feminine icons. Female deities had often shown nude in traditional art, but what enraged right-wing Hindus was that these images were created by a Muslim artist. "Had Husain been less popular beforehand, he probably would have been less hated." says Professor Khilnani.Producer: Mark Savage

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