ok the topis was abt MF Hussain and as far as the digging up I did, here it goes.
He is a Muslim who paints Hindu goddesses in the nude! and heres what I find the good and bad, first the bad:
1) islamic paintings are strictly no living things! and he violated that.
2) There was a certain cartoon about the prophet sometime back that raised a big question among muslims and that the writer had no right to depict the prophet pbuh in bad light! in fact, there was one section which argued that he is not even muslim (whoevr made that comic strip) and so he has no right to say anything abt islam or its prophets. The same can be said abt Mr.Hussain! he is no hindu and he has no right to damage the image of someone else's gods. Already the image of islam is not very bright in terms of tolerance - why burden with this stuff which in my case is unnecessary.
3) I observe he is obsessed with women, Madhuri Dixit if i am not wrong ( My indian friends here told me about something like this pls correct if untrue) and he seems totally a despo in some respects! - needs a good psych if u ask me!!
4) Art as such does not have to hurt someone else! If expressing oneself is an art then even a terrorist is an artist andd he chooses to express him self by blowing up some place or people! there has to be a line somewhere! just as the famous line goes, your freedom ends where my nose starts!! Just because I am free to go anywhere in the USA (because of visa) I wont be allowed into someone else's house!
The good things:
well, he has tried to test the limits of the boundary btw the "accceptable creativity" and unacceptable creativity!this should serve as what will come to you if u play with someone else's beliefs!
sorry couldnt think of any other good thing though i wish i could write more!!
honestly, whatever he did serves as a bad precedent for peace! why flare communal violenece? hindu's regard thoer goddesses as mothers ( according to my indian frnds) I wouldnt let someone paint my mom in the nude!! plain and simple!