Dear Professor Shivaji Pannikar & the Faculty of Fine Arts
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Martin Luther King.
Congratulations MSU Fine Arts Faculty.
I salute you for fiercely protesting this ‘barbaric’ invasion of your institution and this abridgement of freedom of artists by this illegal encroachment, by those undesirable elements in power. The more educated and cultured would have resorted to a more effective protest that is intellectual, if necessary educational, firm as needed, but without offensive language or threats of aggression.
Giving money and power to those in positions of authority is tantamount to giving whisky and car keys to teenage boys.
Magnifying this issue beyond realistic proportions for self gain and political mileage only serves to reiterate what the Father of Gujarat, Mahatma Gandhi once said, “he who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”
Galvanise and mobilize. Boycott this political assault against artistic freedom and autonomy. Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for truth.
Do not waiver in your support of Dr. Shivaji Pannikar, a true academic, an epitome of integrity, professionalism, dedication, commitment and justice. I feel honoured and proud to have been your student years ago.
Stand united and do not succumb to threat, do not allow these vandals to accomplish an extinction of natural feeling, narrowing of the spiritual field of vision and destruction of all the deeper elements of character in man, vital attributes that they lack.
Had we, the humans all over the world, been a little bit tolerant of other’s views, men like Socrates and Mahatma Gandhi would have died their natural death.
Be assured that your struggle, your sacrifices is not only gaining national, but international momentum and support, and the perpetrators, international disgrace and condemnation.
Iqbal (Head of Art & Design- British School- Middle East) ex-MSU Art History student. miabdulhaq@yahoo.com
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THE INSTITUTION IS GREATER THAN MAN
Dear Professor Shivaji Pannikar & the Faculty of Fine Arts
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Martin Luther King.
Congratulations MSU Fine Arts Faculty.
I salute you for fiercely protesting this ‘barbaric’ invasion of your institution and this abridgement of freedom of artists by this illegal encroachment, by those undesirable elements in power.
The more educated and cultured would have resorted to a more effective protest that is intellectual, if necessary educational, firm as needed, but without offensive language or threats of aggression.
Giving money and power to those in positions of authority is tantamount to giving whisky and car keys to teenage boys.
Magnifying this issue beyond realistic proportions for self gain and political mileage only serves to reiterate what the Father of Gujarat, Mahatma Gandhi once said, “he who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”
Galvanise and mobilize.
Boycott this political assault against artistic freedom and autonomy.
Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for truth.
Do not waiver in your support of Dr. Shivaji Pannikar, a true academic, an epitome of integrity, professionalism, dedication, commitment and justice.
I feel honoured and proud to have been your student years ago.
Stand united and do not succumb to threat, do not allow these vandals to accomplish an extinction of natural feeling, narrowing of the spiritual field of vision and destruction of all the deeper elements of character in man, vital attributes that they lack.
Had we, the humans all over the world, been a little bit tolerant of other’s views, men like Socrates and Mahatma Gandhi would have died their natural death.
Be assured that your struggle, your sacrifices is not only gaining national, but international momentum and support, and the perpetrators, international disgrace and condemnation.
Iqbal
(Head of Art & Design- British School- Middle East)
ex-MSU Art History student.
miabdulhaq@yahoo.com
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