Chandra Mohan

Amrita covers the events surrounding the arrest of young artist Chandra Mohan.

Suddenly, ‘activists’ from the VHP and the BJP under the leadership of one Neeraj Jain, stormed the gallery alleging that Mohan’s work “hurt Hindu sentimentsâ€?. The local police then not only turned a blind eye to the actions of Jain’s goons men but instead arrested Mohan…
… First political outfits were telling us what could and could not be hung in art galleries. Now individual members of political parties wish to dictate what a student might or might not portray as part of his studies. Tomorrow some guy off the street will want to tell me what I can or cannot keep in my house!

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