Nude photo in Helsinki museum removed from website

The exhibition website previously displayed 72 slides of art pieces while now it only shows 71. The photograph number 32, which agitating Hindus said denigrated their religion, titled "Hinduism: The Night of Pushkar 2", is not there anymore. Instead, at 32 is another photo titled "Hinduism: The River", which apparently shows a woman from backside standing in the water.

This is a partial victory, said Nand Kapoor, a community activist and a former president of AIA Illinois, in as much as the denigrating photograph needs to be removed from the actual display in the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art. " Till they are assured that it would not be displayed in Tampere, Turku and Vaasa cities in Finland where exhibition planned to travel in the near future, the protest from well meaning Hindus need to continue," he said..

The Finland Prime Minister's office, in the meanwhile is reported to have forwarded the Hindus' request for removal of this "disrespectful" photograph from the exhibition to National Board of Antiquities of Finland "for further possible actions". The Hindus protest in is in the light of a continual showing of naked man, as an apparent representation of Hinduism. The controversial photograph is on display till April 19 as part of Marita Liulia's "Choosing My Religion" multimedia exhibition at Kiasma which is a unit of Finnish National Gallery, a public body under Finland Ministry of Education.