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| Visitors throng the Archer Art Gallery show of prints by renowned Indian artists. |
INDIA - A little- known group of rightwing hotheads, the Thane-based Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS), has been shooting off e-mails opposing art shows in the city where the late
M. F. Husain's works are on display. The HJS earned notoriety a few years back when it launched a sustained campaign against the master. As a result of threats from the HJS and pro- Hindutva groups targeting his paintings, Husain eventually left India in February 2006 and died in exile in London on June 9, 2011. Many Husain supporters believed that the fundamentalists would bury their opposition to the master after his death, but the HJS seems to be in no mood to pipe down. [
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