Three cases against M F Hussain quashed. Good for freedom of expression?

Oh, hey, honestly I never thought that the cases against M F Hussain would ever be quashed. I'm glad Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul saw sense that obscenity is just a matter of perspective. 

As for hurting the sentiments for painting Bharat Mata and Goddess Saraswati nude, like yoo hoo? remember Khajuraho which has temples replete with erotic carvings, even those in 'compromising positions'? 

(A random thought... One of the meanings of these erotic cravings is that one should leave carnal desires outside while entering the temple. Dude, you show someone such arousing things and then expect them to forget about it in a split second?)

Apart from the above mentioned, another reason, apparently, is that divinity is pure like the the soul, so it's not affected by sexual desires and other characteristics of the physical body. And we have Shiv ling also, right? Like, one of the meanings it has is the phallus, if I'm not wrong. So why do things shock us so much? Ohhhhh, is it because it's a Goddess and not God? Gender bias, is it? Well, I guess had M F Hussain painted a God nude, he would have been called gay or something. Just another random thought this.

Anyway, so this verdict is reason for artists to rejoice I think, since Mr Justice has also said that "frivolous and vexatious complaints, which impinge on the basic freedom of an individual, should be scrutinised in a strict manner at the magisterial level itself." 

All these complaints are courtesy the jobless and stupid fundamentalists at work. More annoying is all the ransacking these hooligans go about doing. Ya, ok, you have a problem? Just say it and maybe the artist will comply if he knows he has hurt the sentiments, like M F Hussain did.

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