Artists criticised Prime Minister for not categorically condemning the recent incidents
Artist Anita Dube
New Delhi: After scores of writers across India returned their awards in protest against recent attacks on minorities and rationalists, leading artists including Vivan Sundaram, Anjolie Ela Menon and Subodh Gupta on Tuesday expressed solidarity with them and criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not categorically condemning the recent incidents.
“The scale of social violence and fatal assaults on ordinary citizens (as in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh; Udhampur, Jammu and Kashmir; Faridabad, Haryana) is escalating,” said a statement signed by over 400 artists released here by Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT).
The artists, also including the likes of London-based Anish Kapoor, K.G. Subramanyan, Nilima Sheikh and Krishen Khanna.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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