Threat to Husain: Judicial Verdict Won’t Save Him By Amulya Ganguli

One can expect the state governments run by the BJP to stand by idly while the Bajrang Dal activists run amok as they did in Vadodara over what they regarded as an offensive painting. The art student, Chandra Mohan, was even jailed for a brief period. But that their “secular” counterparts are no better in protecting the constitutionally guaranteed rights of artistic, literary and scholastic freedom was evident when the Bhandarkar Institute in Pune was ransacked by a group of zealots over a biography of Shivaji.