Sterile debate over free speech

Predictably public discourse following the death of Maqbool Fida Husain has been reduced to an utterly banal and ill-informed debate on ‘tolerance’ and ‘freedom of expression’. It’s the same ‘good Muslim’ versus ‘bad Hindu’ story told all over again by pretentious intellectuals masquerading as keepers of liberal and secular values who don’t even know that the artist whose works are immortalised on the ceiling of Sistine Chapel was called Michelangelo and not Michaelangelo.

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