M.F. Hussain

[This is an e-mail I sent to a member of the Haindava Keralam yahoo group.] 30.11.06 Dear Vipin, I think we ought to think of nudity as also an expression of spirituality. M.F. Hussain is an acclaimed artist. Surely we can't deny that he is an artist of merit. When an artist expresses, we ought to look for something deeper than ordinary. We should welcome his dipiction of Saraswathi in nude as an artistic expression and accept it as an attempt to potray the mystique yet another way. About M.F. Hussain not drawing personages or symbols of other religions in the nude - well you cannot predict with an artist, one day he might. (Or maybe not, now that he has been sufficiently cornered for his nude Saraswathis.) K.Venugopal