M F Hussain is no more Maqbool Fida Hussain

M F Hussain is no more Maqbool Fida Hussain.

Maqbool, in normal circumstances, means “accepted”, Fida means “sacrifice”, again in normal circumstances.

How maqbool is he in his own country is debatable but if a similar insult mechanism, on which Taslima Nasreen or Salman Rushdie is celebrated, is applied, uncomfortable questions arise.

An unequivocal and accepted answer seems to lie in expelling the scoundrel out of the territory. See, there are no more violence, no outrageous “public” protests thereafter and obviously the resulting perfect harmony between “usually” violent Hindu and Muslim communities. Practically koool.

But, here comes a startling revelation. Our political parties are good at research. See, how they did manage to dig out the heinous insult, committed over 25 years old ago, by this Rangeela MF.

Yeah, not even a small insult can go unnoticed under their hawkish eyes, however old it may be.

There were the days when no one noticed all these stuffs seriously, but over the years the increasing government’s spending on research is paying dividend. Attitudinal change is seen!

I’m sure, they will come out with something concrete about Ajanta and Ellora caves as well, among other things. It may take some time, you know how the government people function.

Amid all this, the level of tolerance has been elevated further by few notches, thanks to the guidance provided to youths by golden oldies. Otherwise, our tolerant nationalism would have taken a violent turn.

Nationalism has been redefined. Gandhi is rechristened, remodeled. He fought non-violently out of no choice, as the then Gandhi was born and brought up in technological disadvantaged society. We don’t have any impedance in this age. Technologically and economically third to none.

We have always loved our god(s), and we still do. No doubt. And, sanctity of our mother land is second to none. We were alien to crimes and corruption till our films depicted it, bad governance till Bofors or Tehelka cases were highlighted. We were raped of our innocence of no fault of ours, otherwise we would have been forever a virgin.

But our mother land is paraded naked by MFs, our Quran’s verses have been satanised by Rushdies. Nevertheless we never raped our mother land and never followed satanic paths.