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07 Mar 2010
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| Editorial: Husain Feels Honoured by Qatar |
Editorial: Husain Feels Honoured by Qatar
The Editorial Team
Famous painter Mohammad Fida Husain has very cleverly tried to conceal his desertion and defection from a citizen of India by birth to a citizen of Qatar by coating his decision in a diplomatic language of Qatar having bestowed an honour on him by offering him its citizenship which he gladly accepted. This just amounts to his desertion of India, the country, to quote his own words, "he loved the most". Now, like modern day lovers who profess their supreme love one day a...
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| Optional Verses |
Optional Verses
 Lt. Col. (Retd.) Mahendra Mathur
eter the Venerable had recounted in 1142 ( J.P.Migne (ed.) Patrologia Latina (1844-64) Vol. 189, Col.671; "I therefore approached specialists in the Arabic language, from which comes the deadly poison which has infected half the world, and I persuaded them - by pleas and by offering payment - to translate from Arabic into Latin the origin, life and laws of that damned soul (Muhammad) which is called the Koran ... in order that the translation should be completel...
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| Husain Stay Back, All is Not Forgiven |
Husain Stay Back, All is Not Forgiven
 Chandan Mitra
India's high-profile secular-fundamentalist partisans are highly agitated that one of their ilk - nonagerian painter MF Husain - has cocked a snook at their frenzied campaign and accepted to become a subject of the Sheikh of Qatar. So much for Husain's alleged commitment to the cherished values of democracy, freedom of expression and born-again secularism! Qatar qualifies on none of these attributes while India does on all. Unable to digest, leave alone convincingly justify, the w...
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| Hussain Out 0f the Bag | Hussain Out 0f the Bag
Amba Charan Vashishth
The cat is out of the bag. The great painter - we can now no longer call him Indian - Mohammad Fida Hussain is out his bag of nationalism, secularism and liberalism. He has now shunned his citizenship of the Indian nation to move to the greener pastures of Qatar.He had all along been alternating been claiming that he is not in exile but has been roaming one country or the other out of his own free will and in December 2009 saying that he had been forced into living a...
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| No Nationalism Makes India Weak | No Nationalism Makes India Weak
 Aneeta Chakrabarty
n a small town in Texas, two Indians found themselves in the lobby of a plush doctor's office. They looked at each other, and then quickly looked away. With furtive looks, they tried to evaluate each other as questions buzzed in their minds, "What does he do?", "Wonder if he is an H1B or a green card holder?", "Is he married?, and finally, "Where is he from?" Both showed an eagerness to communicate, but the big wall of prid...
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