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Artists' Statement on Growing Political and Religious Intolerance ISSN (Online) - 2349-8846 Artists' Statement on Growing Political and Religious Intolerance SAHMAT Vol. 50, Issue No. 44, 31 Oct, 2015 The artist community of India stands in firm solidarity with the actions of our writers who have relinquished awards and positions, and spoken up in protest against the alarming rise of intolerance in the country. We condemn and mourn the murders of MM Kalburgi, Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare, rationalists and free thinkers whose voices have been silenced by rightwing dogmatists but whose “presence” must ignite our resistance to the conditions of hate being generated around us. The artist community of India stands in firm solidarity with the actions of our writers who have relinquished awards and positions, and spoken up in protest against the alarming rise of intolerance in the country. We condemn and mourn the murders of MM Kalburgi, Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare, rationalists and free thinkers whose voices have been silenced by rightwing dogmatists but whose “presence” must ignite our resistance to the conditions of hate being generated around us. We will never forget the battle we fought for our pre-eminent artist MF Husain who was hounded out of the country and died in exile. We remember the rightwing invasion and dismantling of freedoms in one of the country’s best known art schools in Baroda. We witness the present government’s appointment of grossly unqualified persons to the FTII Society and its disregard of the ongoing strike by the students of this leading Institute. We see a writer like Perumal Murugan being intimidated into declaring his death as a writer, a matter of dire shame in any society. While the Prime Minister of the country has been conspicuously reticent in his response to the recent events, the reactions of BJP ministers in his government reveal their ignorance and prejudice. Mahesh Sharma, Minister of State for Culture, has made abhorrent comments about mob lynching and murder. His remarks suggesting that writers should stop writing to prove their point are alarming—empowered as he is to take policy decisions in the domain of culture. Arun Jaitley, Minister of Finance, Information & Broadcasting, has mocked the actions of our respected writers as a manufactured “paper rebellion”. He asks for scrutiny of the political and ideological affiliations of those who are protesting. To these and other such provocations there is a clear answer: while the actual affiliations of the protesting writers and artists, scholars and journalists may be many and varied, their individual and collective voices are gaining cumulative strength. It is this that the ruling ISSN (Online) - 2349-8846 party will have to reckon with: the protestors’ declared disaffiliation from a government that encourages marauding outfits to enforce a series of regressive commands in this culturally diverse country. The scale of social violence and fatal assaults on ordinary citizens (as in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh; Udhampur, Jammu and Kashmir; Faridabad, Harayana) is escalating. The contemptuous comments about the religious minorities and Dalits made by those within the government confirm that there is little difference between the RSS-BJP mainstream and supposed “fringe” elements. The perfunctory warnings and regrets issued by ruling party ideologues – to defend the agendas of “development” and “governance” advanced by Mr Narendra Modi—are merely expedient. The Sangh Parivar and its Hindutva forces operating through their goon brigades form the support base of this government; they are all complicit in the attempts to impose conformity of thought, belief and practice. The ideology of the ruling party has revealed its contempt for creative and intellectual work; bigotry and censorship will only grow. As in the past, we must challenge the divisive forces through varied forms of appeal and protest, articulation and refusal. Our demand can be nothing less than that the entire range of constitutional rights and freedoms of the citizens of this country—freedom of expression and speech, right to dissent and exert difference in life choices including culture and religion—be ensured. A government that does not tolerate difference, that does not safeguard the lives and interests of its marginalised and vulnerable citizens, loses its legitimacy in a democratic polity. We are facing this situation now, already. Aastha Chauhan, artist, Delhi Aban Raza, artist, Delhi Abdul Mabood, Delhi Abhilasha Kumari, media professor, Delhi Abhimanue V.G., artist, Delhi Abhishek Hazra, artist, Bangalore Ahmar Raza, scientist, Delhi Aishwaryan K, artist, Bengaluru. Ajay Desai, artist, Delhi Aji V.N., artist, Rotterdam, Netherlands Akansha Rastogi, WALA collective, Delhi ISSN (Online) - 2349-8846 Akshaya Tankha, art historian, University of Toronto, Canada Alnoor Mitha, artist, curator, Manchester, UK Amar Kanwar, artist and filmmaker, Delhi Amrita Gupta Singh, art historian, Mumbai Anamika Haksar, theatre director, Mumbai Ananya Vajpeyi, CSDS, Delhi Anindita Bhattacharya, artist, Delhi Anish Ahluwalia, artist and filmmaker Anish Kapoor, artist, London Anita Dube, artist, Delhi Anjolie Ela Menon, artist, Delhi Anju Dodiya, artist, Mumbai Anjum Singh, artist, Delhi Anshuman Dasgupta, art historian, Santiniketan Anupam Saikia, Dept. of Fine Arts, University of Hyderabad Anupam Singh, artist, Mumbai Anuradha Kapur, theatre director, Delhi Aradhana Seth, production designer, artist, Goa Archana Hande, artist, Mumbai Arghya Priya Majumdar, artist, Santiniketan Arpana Caur, artist, Delhi Arpita Singh, artist, Delhi Arshad Hakim, artist, Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida Arshad Hakim, Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida Arshiya Lokhandwala, curator, gallerist, Mumbai ISSN (Online) - 2349-8846 Arun Kumar H.G., artist, Delhi Arunima Choudhury, Kolkata Ashim Purkasthaya, artist, Delhi Ashis Kumar Das, artist, Mumbai Ashrafi S. Bhagat, art historian, Chennai Atreyee Gupta, art historian, Berlin Atul Bhalla, artist, Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida Atul Dodiya, artist, Mumbai Aurora Graldi, PhD Candidate in South Asian Art History, Vienna University Avani Batra, Delhi Avinash Veeraraghavan, artist, Bangalore Ayisha Abraham, artist, Bangalore Babitha Lingraj, artist, Bangalore Babu Eshwar Prasad, artist and filmmaker, Bangalore Balan Nambiar, artist, Bangalore Balbir Krishan, artist, Delhi Belinder Dhanoa, art critic, Delhi Bhagath Singh E.K,artist,Kerala Bharathesh G.D., artist, Bangalore Bharati Kapadia, artist, Mumbai Bharti Kher, artist Delhi Bhavani G.S., artist, Bangalore Bhavani Shiva, artist, Bangalore Biju Jose, artist, Bangalore ISSN (Online) - 2349-8846 Bina Sarkar Elias, editor & publisher, International Galerie C.F. John, artist, Bangalore Catherine Asher, art historian, USA Chaitanya Sambrani, art historian, Canberra Champa Sharath, artist, Bangalore Chandrima Bhattacharyya, artist, Bangalore Chinar Shah, artist, Bangalore Chintan Upadhyay, artist, Delhi/Mumbai Chitra Ganesh, artist, New York, USA Christopher Pinney, art historian, London, UK Cop Shiva, photographer, Bangalore Deepa Mahajan, artist, Mumbai/Singapore Deepak Ananth, art historian, Paris Deepanjana Klein, art historian, New York, USA Deepika Sorabjee, curator, Mumbai Deeptha Achar, art critic, Baroda Dev Benegal, New York, USA Devika Daulet-Singh, gallerist, Delhi Dhruvi Acharya, artist, Mumbai Diana Gomes, artist, Baroda Dilip Mitra, artist, Santiniketan Dimple Shah, artist, Bangalore Dipti Khera, art historian, New York University, USA Faiza Hasan, artist, Hyderabad. ISSN (Online) - 2349-8846 G.S. Gopinath, artist, Bangalore Gargi Raina, artist Baroda Gauri Gill, photographer, Delhi Gayatri Sinha, art critic, Delhi Geeta Doctor, writer, Chennai Geeta Kapur, art critic, Delhi Geetha Mehra, gallerist, Mumbai Gieve Patel, artist, Mumbai Gigi Scaria, artist, Delhi Gopika Chowfla, graphic designer, Delhi Gopika Nath, artist-craftsperson and writer, Gurgaon Goutam Das, artist, Santiniketan Gulammohammed Sheikh, artist, Baroda Hans Kaushik, artist, Chennai Hema Upadhyay, artist, Mumbai Homita Harish Katira, artist, Columbia, SC, USA Homita, artist, Mumbai Indrapramit Roy, artist, Baroda Indu Chandrasekhar, publisher, Delhi Ivan Smith, artist, Belper, Derbyshire, UK Jahangir Asgar Jani, artist, Mumbai Jaideep Mehrotra, artist, Mumbai Jaideep Sen, artist, Bangalore Jaishri Abichandani, artist, New York, USA ISSN (Online) - 2349-8846 James Khamliansawma, artist, Aizawl, Mizoram Janice Glowski, art historian, Columbus, Ohio, USA Jasbeer Singh, artist, Belfast, Northern Ireland Jatin Das, artist, Delhi Jeetin Rangher, artist, Bangalore Jitish Kallat, artist, Mumbai Johny M.L., art critic, Delhi Justin Ponmany, artist, Mumbai Jyotindra Jain, art historian, Delhi K.G. Subramanyan, artist, Baroda K.P. Reji, artist, Baroda K.V. Raghavendra Rao, artist, Bangalore, Vancouver, Canada Karishma D’Souza, Panaji, Goa Karishma Shah, artist, Surat Kathryn Myers, Professor of Art, University of Connecticut, USA Kaushik Bhaumik, artist, Delhi Kausik Mukhopadhyay, artist, Mumbai Kim Kyoungae, artist, Baroda Kirtana Thangavelu, art historian, S.N. School, Hyderabad Kirti Jain, theatre director, Delhi Krishen Khanna, artist, Delhi Krishnaraj Chonat, artist, Bangalore Kuldeep Singh, artist Kumari Ranjeeta, artist , Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida ISSN (Online) - 2349-8846 Kunal Kalra, artist, Hyderabad L.N. Tallur, artist, Kundapura L.N.V. Srinivas, artist, S.N. School, Hyderabad Lalitha Gopalan, video scholar, USA Lalitha Shankar, artist, Bangalore Latika Gupta, art historian,
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