Maqbool Fida Husain's works have always been extreme. His controversial painting so far only depicts as if he cannot thing any other creative topics than sex.
Husain has so far depicted: Naked Hanuman and Goddess Sita (This picture shows a naked Hanuman attacking a naked demon king Ravana while Goddess Sita is sitting naked on Lord Ravana's thigh) In this picture he even forgot that Goddess Sita is the epitome of chastity and is role model for women the world over. He also painted Naked Goddess Sita sitting on the tail of Naked Lord Hanuman. In this picture too he forgot that according to the Indian History, Goddess Sita or Lord Hanuman has never been shown in the naked forms. Secondly, Goddess Sita has never been rescued by Lord Hanuman. Over here Husain is trying to interfere with the cultural principles. Husain even portrayed Lord Hanuman and with his genitals pointing towards a woman; A bull having sexual intercourse with Goddess Parvati and Lord Shiva watching on the auspicious day of Shivratri (Lord Shiva is the Principle of Absolute Knowledge and the principle of Destruction in the Universe); Goddess Durga in the nude having sexual intercourse with a tiger; Goddess Lakshmi naked on an elephant; Goddess Saraswati Who is the Goddess of knowledge playing a veena; Naked Ganga and Yamuna. Above all Husain has also depicted "Bharatmata" (Mother India) figuring a nude woman. It is this picture that hit Husain badly and finally Husain had to apologize for this controversial work. Apart from producing blasphemous artwork, Husain seems to have little regard for basic human norms of decency. In two of the pictures he has shown a horse having sex with a WOMAN and in yet another picture he shows an elephant having sex with a WOMAN. If all these things are allowed to be accepted as Artists Depiction of Creativity, I have some questions to Husain, Why did you preferred to paint your mother, daughter, prophet's daughter Fatima fully dressed? Why did you not give the sex appeal to these pictures too? Why did you not prefer to draw any similar pictures about Allah and Prophet Mohammed? Why did you not give similar treatment to gods / goddesses of other religion? Is it not the biased and hatred attitude that you are showing towards Hindu goddesses, Women's at large, and towards our India? And yet you want us to accept your art as creativity? Conclusively, the controversial paintings of M F Husain which depict the nude Hindu Gods and Goddesses in such pornographic postures are undisputedly in bad taste. He should know that liberty is not license and that his liberty to lash out his brush ends where the canvas of other religions begins! Husain, need to be mended or if need be he should be made to end his capricious and nonsensical aberrations in the larger interest of maintaining harmony among the people of different religious faiths and denominations. Husain should not forget that it was a woman who breast feed him to keep him alive may be to become great artist but definitely not to paint women in pornographic poses! When goddess Sita is the epitome of chastity and is role model for women the world over. Husain also tried to interfere with the cultural principles using his dirty paint brush. Over all it appears that Husain is bent on giving Hindu deities, Women community, and our mother India a Nude treatment showing his little regard for the basic human norms of decency. Husain is playing with sacred motifs of religions irresponsibly other than that I don't find any message he is trying to convey to us in India through his paintings. Can Husain show his "guts" to Saudi Arabia and paint a Nude woman? I am sure his private parts will be chopped off in public and he would be stoned to death. He is doing it only because he knows that such nonsense's gets tolerated only in secular India and not anywhere else. Best regards, Dr. U. G. Barad