GLORIFYING NUDITY !
Was aghast ,surprised, shocked and amazed at seeing the latest ad of Department of Tourism of West Bengal (OUTLOOK, Sept 01,2014)
This ad created on the theme of DURGA PUJA to attract tourism to the land of Ma Durga, has a picture of a unfinished idol of Durga, in mud and clay, sans clothes and bare chested.
In spite of sincere prolonged deliberation and even after stretching my imaginative imagination wide, I failed to understand the significance of portraying Durga nude to lure tourists.
Does the Department of Tourism want to send the message across that the state is so poor that it can’t even dress Ma Durga ?
It gives me a feeling of de ja vu ,of the stormy reactions we all saw few years back to certain paintings of M F Hussain.
How does this ad become acceptable.
Sorry, friends, I may be sounding non artistic, but my small brain fails to understand the purpose of displaying a goddess with an uncovered torso and don’t find any creativity in it !
Sanjay Kapoor