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Forbidden art
The New Indian Express
|December 05, 2024
A Bengali artist's Chittapro's sketches of the Bengal were banned and all copies of the booklet in which it was published were destroyed.
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Nothing much changed soon after the country's Independence, except that there was a shift from censorship on political grounds to ones based on morality. In a 1949 exhibition, a nude self-portrait by FN Souza, one of India's most famous artists, was first covered up by the police and later seized. His studio was raided and his works almost labelled as pornography. The years that followed too, were never kind to creative spirits.
This story is from the December 05, 2024 edition of The New Indian Express.
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