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Controversy over paintings exhibition

Staff Correspondent

BHOPAL: Hot on the heels of the attack on a student of M. S. University in Vadodara, the Bharat Bhawan — the famous multi-arts complex here in Bhopal — is in the grip of a controversy over an ongoing exhibition of paintings by an artist, Kailash Tiwari. The theme of this exhibition is terrorism.

Over the last couple of days, a group of protesters under the banner of the Rashtriya Secular Manch have been turning up at the Bharat Bhawan to lodge their protest against the exhibition.

Their contention is that the exhibition blatantly depicts Muslims as terrorists and hence should be closed immediately.

When contacted, Bharat Bhawan's Chief Administrative Officer Narendra Deepak told this correspondent that the exhibition would continue till Sunday as originally scheduled.

He said some persons had pushed and roughed up the security personnel and even damaged a few posters inside the Bharat Bhawan campus.

A complaint of vandalism was being lodged with the police in this regard, he said.

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