{"id":1619,"date":"2016-02-16T11:54:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T11:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=1616&amp;preview_id=1616"},"modified":"2016-02-16T11:54:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T11:54:17","slug":"success-of-hindu-unity-m-f-husains-paintings-removed-from-thane-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=1619","title":{"rendered":"Success of Hindu unity : M F Husain\u2019s paintings removed from &#8216;Thane Festival&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Thane :<\/strong> An exhibition of paintings called \u2018Picasso to Husain\u2019 was to be held in \u2018Art Festival \u2013 2016\u2019 at Kalwa. In this exhibition, paintings by M F Husain, who was an anti-national and anti-<span class=\"explanatory-dictionary-highlight\">Hindu<\/span> painter and had painted obscene, denigrating pictures of <span class=\"explanatory-dictionary-highlight\">Hindu<\/span> Deities and Bharatmata, were also to be exhibited. This exhibition would have glorified Husain; therefore, a complaint was lodged with Thane Police Commissioner by Hindu Janajagruti Samiti opposing to exhibition of Husain\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p>A press conference was held by like-minded organizations creating awareness amongst people towards this matter. Police Department, therefore, instructed the organizers not to include Husain\u2019s paintings in the exhibition. As a result, not a single painting of Husain was on display except a knitted handicraft piece based on Husain\u2019s painting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindujagruti.org\/news\/78711.html\">Hindu Janajagruti Samiti<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thane : An exhibition of paintings called \u2018Picasso to Husain\u2019 was to be held in \u2018Art Festival \u2013 2016\u2019 at Kalwa. In this exhibition, paintings by M F Husain, who was an anti-national and anti-Hindu painter and had painted obscene, denigrating pictures of Hindu Deities and Bharatmata, were also to be exhibited. This exhibition would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}