New Statesman's A View from the East by Salil Tripathy

A year ago, a group of Hindu activists attacked two paintings by Maqbool Fida Husain, India's best-known painter. ... [He lives in self-imposed exile, dividing his time between Dubai and London. What was unusual about this particular act of mob censorship and vandalism, however, was that it occurred in the heart of central London, at Asia House. ... A sale at Bonhams and Asia House this month will include 85 works by major Indian artists, including Husain. The profits from "Art for Freedom" will go towards another champion of freedom of expression, the Indian weekly newspaper Tehelka, which is backed by such luminaries as V S Naipaul and Arundhati Roy, and for which I also write.

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