Lata, Hussain aa lautke aaja…

The nightingale says that if the flyover comes up at Kemp’s Corner, then she will fly away to Dubai. Hussain has already flown away to Qatar.

One is a Hindu, the other a Muslim. But does it really make a difference?

Flyovers have come up all over Bombay and have eased the traffic congestion. There is one at Mohd. Ali road. Not enough reason for Lataji to take the next flight out of Bharat?

Commenting in DNA Opinion, R Vaidyanathan, Professor of Finance, IIM – B, says Hussain’s reason to leave India in Hussain’s own admission is due to commercial considerations and tax issues.

The learned Professor says that in the last 100 years he has not heard of any artist being put in jail or beheaded for his actions. So Hussain need not rush out of the country post haste fearing a backlash for painting Hindu Gods buck naked.

Buck naked! Hussain’s argument is the Gods in the Hindu pantheon are featured in the nude in carvings, paintings in temples and caves, so where is the blasphemy. Accepted but why does he not draw almighty Allah. Is this because the Quran forbids physical depiction of this revered God?

You can’t have two sets of rules, threatened to leave the country from whom you have taken so much just because your view from the balcony is a wee bit distorted as people struggling to get to work need a flyover. Surely Lataji you have earned enough money to buy yourself a lake facing residence somewhere else in Bombay.
And Hussain, come back all is well and all is forgiven and all is fair, the business of paintings and nudity be damned.